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OFF SHORE OIL DRILLING IN SAN DIEGO?
RICHARD CHARTER
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Richard Charter spent much of his early childhood growing up among the tidepools of the Northern California coast. He currently directs the Local Government OCS Coordination Program, a project of the County of Santa Cruz, continuing four decades of professional dedication to protecting fragile marine ecosystems. Richard engaged with four Administrations in Washington and multiple Members of Congress to maintain the bipartisan 27-year annual renewal of the offshore drilling moratorium that long protected the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts as well as Florida’s Gulf Coast and Panhandle from expanded offshore oil and gas leasing.
Richard coordinated the local government support leading to the designation of California’s Greater Farallones, Cordell Bank, Channel Islands, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries and helped secure a declaration of permanent protection from offshore drilling for Alaska’s fishery-rich Bristol Bay in 2015.
Richard is currently working to coordinate local government and public responses to the current Trump Five-Year Offshore Drilling Plan, to protect California’s Marine Sanctuaries, and to address the emerging global threat posed by seabed mining. He is co-producer of the award-winning documentary film on seabed mining, “Defend the Deep”, which can be viewed online at http://TheDeepMovie.org
For those wishing to participate in the current campaign to protect the California Coast from offshore drilling, his project’s website is http://SaveMyCoast.org
