House of Smoke
“The weekly meeting of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is now in session.
The council chamber is packed beyond capacity. Not only is every seat filled, but people are standing against the walls at the sides and back, and others are congregating in the hallways outside, where television receivers have been set up to show the proceedings.
Blake Hopkins sits in the front row, on the pro-oil side, of course. Seated on the other side of the aisle, also in the front row, are Miranda and ...Dorothy Sparks. Conspicuously ensconced between them is John Wilkerson, who flew in last night to attend at Miranda’s personal request.
Redbuck announces the agenda: “Rainier Oil’s proposal to remove their drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara channel and replace them with an onshore extended-reach drilling operation; and to be given approval to place this operation on the Sparks family’s ranch, subject to the Sparks family’s willingness to be a party to this proposal, which this boards assumes has been under discussion between the two parties.”MoreLess
The council chamber is packed beyond capacity. Not only is every seat filled, but people are standing against the walls at the sides and back, and others are congregating in the hallways outside, where television receivers have been set up to show the proceedings.
Blake Hopkins sits in the front row, on the pro-oil side, of course. Seated on the other side of the aisle, also in the front row, are Miranda and ...Dorothy Sparks. Conspicuously ensconced between them is John Wilkerson, who flew in last night to attend at Miranda’s personal request.
Redbuck announces the agenda: “Rainier Oil’s proposal to remove their drilling platforms in the Santa Barbara channel and replace them with an onshore extended-reach drilling operation; and to be given approval to place this operation on the Sparks family’s ranch, subject to the Sparks family’s willingness to be a party to this proposal, which this boards assumes has been under discussion between the two parties.”MoreLess
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