Press Release: Royalty Owners Join with Pacific Legal Foundation to Announce Challenge to Oil Setback Law in Federal Court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NARO-CA, the California chapter of the National Association of Royalty Owners, is joining with Pacific Legal Foundation to announce a new federal court legal challenge to Senate Bill 1137—the 3,200-foot oil setback mandate that they argue violates the constitutional rights of oil and gas mineral and royalty owners. According to NARO-CA and […]
DOJ Lawsuit is Big News for Royalty Owners
The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to have SB 1137 thrown out on constitutional grounds. NARO-CA has been working hard on the policy and legal fronts to push back against this unjust law, which impacts hundreds of thousands of oil and gas mineral and royalty owners. This action is a ray of hope […]
California’s War on Oil Is a War on Working Families
By Jesse Rojas Bakersfield and the Central Valley know something Sacramento often forgets: energy policy is not theoretical. It shows up every time a family fills up their tank, every time a contractor budgets a job, and every time a worker decides whether they can afford to stay in California. In Kern County, driving isn’t […]
Energy Security Is National Security: Why California Can’t Afford Its Production Decline
Reversing harmful policies, restoring lawful access to mineral rights, and strengthening California’s production capacity are essential steps By Nick Busse State laws threatening oil production harm veterans, families, and the military infrastructure that depends on a stable supply of domestic fuel. As California has become increasingly dependent on imported fuels, concerns are rising about the national […]
California’s Energy Crisis Has Arrived—Royalty Owners Have a Role to Play
By Eric Eisenhammer, NARO-CA Member Some people are surprised to hear that there is oil and gas production in California at all. In fact, California has long been among the nation’s top oil producing states. For many years California rivaled Texas and Alaska in its production and in spite of years of anti-oil policies by […]
LOIS HENRY: Anti-oil activists don’t know who they’re picking on
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Faces of oil industry aren’t always big corporations
Karen Sherrill is a widow who lives alone in a nice modular home park in Orcutt. She recently retired from a job with a local travel company. And like a number of people, she supplements her income with money she receives from a local oil company which leases her mineral rights. Because she relies so […]