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 […]

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 […]

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 […]