HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 6060 RESOLUTION NO. 6060
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH FOR FILING WITH THE DEPARTMENT
OF INTERIOR REQUEST OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
LEASE SALE 95 BE CANCELLED
WHEREAS, the Huntington Beach City Council has co-sponsored a
series of technical reports on the effects of offshore drilling for
oil and gas, and
The City of Huntington Beach has monitored the progress of
Lease Sale 95 since 1983, and
The technical reports conclude that drilling discharges and
oil spills would result in serious short and long term impacts to
sensitive Orange County coastal and estaurine habitats, and
The proposed Department of Interior Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) regulations on air quality will lead to the release of
unacceptable quantitites of emissions from offshore facilities, and
Orange County has historically contributed to the development
of domestic oil resources from both onshore and offshore reserves,
including the Beta and Beta Northwest fields in federal waters, and
the Belmont, Newport, and Huntington Beach fields in state waters, and
The volume of oil available in Orange County' s portion of the
proposed lease sale is equivalent to 76 hours of nationwide
consumption and represents about eight days woth of national oil
imports, and
It will take approximately 25 years to extract this oil
reserve, during which time the aforementioned impacts and risks will
be ever present, and
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Huntington Beach City
Council does hereby conclude that the impacts and risks associated
with the development of Lease Sale 95 significantly outweigh the
limited benefits, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Council hereby recommends
that the Department of Interior cancel OCS Lease Sale 95 and
terminate any future development of oil reserves in federal waters
adjacent to the City of Huntington Beach.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on
the 21st day of August 1989 .
Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk ZY City At r B� VR A"k
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
City Administrator Director of Administrative
Services
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Res. No.., 6060
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio' Clerk of the
City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of
members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is 'seven;
that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative
vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council
at a regular meeting thereof held on the Zist __day
Of- August 19 89 by the following vote:
t AYES: Councilmembers:
green_ W;nchell . Mays Silva, Erskine
NOES: Councilmembers:
MacAllister Bannister
ABSENT: Councilmembers:
None`
Ciry- Clerk-and ex-o ici er
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California