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  1. "....Included in the fine print was Amendment 119-13. It authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use eminent domain laws to take California state property needed to keep Sable Offshore Corporation’s Santa Ynez Pipeline System operating. It cites national defense as the reason.

    Some of that land is in Gaviota State Park...."

    #environment #gaviota #oilandgas #fossilfuels #climateemergency

  2. It's happening, it seems... 18 months on & bits of #grief begin rising to the surface, missing places in the #US that are dearest to my heart.

    A dear friend driving south for a wedding this weekend. As I share good stops enroute, #memories began to flood back.

    About this place, especially. There's so much to say that it's often #overwhelming.

    #Refugio. Which it has been, for me. And for the #SeventhGeneration now living there.

    #Gaviota #california #travelphotography #SilentSunday

  3. This would not be the first CBP tower placed along the coastline in California.

    EFF identified one in Del Mar, about 30 miles from the border,

    and another in San Diego County where the border fence meets the Pacific Ocean.

    CBP has also applied to place towers
    –although not necessarily the Anduril model
    –in or near several other coastal locations:

    #Gaviota State Park,
    #Refugio State Park,
    #Vandenberg Air Force Base,
    #PiedrasBlancas and
    #PointVicente.

    The California coastline isn’t the only coastline dotted with surveillance towers.

    The Migrant Rights Network has also documented numerous Anduril towers along the southeast coast of England.

    Where the San Clemente tower would differ is that there is a substantial population between the tower and the beach,

    and because it's a 360-degree system, it can watch neighborhoods even further from the coast.

    However, this won't be the first time an Anduril tower has been placed next to a community.

    EFF has documented numerous Anduril towers in public parks along the Rio Grande in
    #Laredo and #Roma, Texas.

    In Mission, Texas, an Anduril tower was placed outside an RV park:
    the tower could not even see the border without capturing data from the community.

    Because AI can swivel the cameras 360 degrees, two churches were within the "viewshed" of that tower.

    calmatters.org/california-divi

  4. Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
    “due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
    #CHP advises motorists to use Highway 154 as an alternate route
    and to drive slow and travel safe, warning that conditions may change rapidly.

    In its own post at 10:35 a.m., #Caltrans clarified that
    👉 Highway 101 is closed in both directions due to what it describes as “a series of mudslides” near #Goleta.

    Caltrans crews are on site and directing southbound travelers on the 101 off at the junction with Hwy. 1 north of #Gaviota,
    while northbound travelers are being directed off at #Winchester Canyon.
    ⭐️“No estimate for reopening,” Caltrans said.
    According to Caltrans, Highway 1 near #Orcutt is also closed in both directions due to flooding between Solomon Road and Black Road.
    There is no estimate for reopening in that case either
    independent.com/2026/01/03/fla

  5. via NWS #LosAngeles 🐦

    #Sundowner winds will strengthen and become more widespread tonight, with gusts of 35 to 55 mph common, strongest near #Gaviota and #Refugio. Wind advisory in effect until 10 am Monday. #SBAWeather #cawx #SantaBarbara #Goleta

  6. More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along
    #Santa #Barbara’s coastline
    served to galvanize the modern environmental movement
    and also helped to usher in one of the state’s strongest conservation laws:
    the California Coastal Act.

    Now, as the Trump administration seeks to encourage oil and gas production within federal lands and waters,
    that watershed conservation law is being tested along the same stretch of coastline
    — and in a way it never has before.

    For months, a Texas-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission
    — the body tasked with enforcing the act
    — and has instead pushed forward with controversial plans to revive oil production off the #Gaviota #Coast.

    Ten years after another spill brought oil production here to a halt,
    #Sable #Offshore #Corp. has begun repairing and upgrading the network of oil pipelines responsible for that 2015 spill,
    🆘without Coastal Commission approval and ignoring the commission’s repeated demands to stop its work, officials say.

    🔥“This is the first time in the agency’s history that we’ve had a party blatantly ignore a cease and desist order like this and refuse to submit a permit application,”
    Cassidy Teufel, deputy director of the California Coastal Commission, told a packed town hall recently.

    byteseu.com/897172/