California May Have A Way To Block Trump's Offshore Drilling Push : NPR
Dan Haifley
Santa Cruz proposed a ballot measure that said if an oil company wanted to build facilities on land  residents would have to vote on it first. It passed. The measure also designated funds to spread the idea  so Santa Cruz hired  Dan Haifley  to be an anti-oil Johnny Appleseed.
"I would sleep on couches and I would travel the state in my little car  tiny little thing "  Haifley  says.
 He  visited local officials along the coast  slide projector in hand. "It was grassroots democracy and grassroots activism at its best "  he  says.
In  all  Haifley  convinced 26 coastal cities and counties to adopt similar policies. They were challenged by the oil industry  but upheld by a federal court.
Even today  oil companies can't build new infrastructure without voter approval in most of those places. The zoning rules create what  Haifley  calls "a coastal wall of resistance" against offshore drilling.
Santa Cruz proposed a ballot measure that said if an oil company wanted to build facilities on land  residents would have to vote on it first. It passed. The measure also designated funds to spread the idea  so Santa Cruz hired  [TGT]  to be an anti-oil Johnny Appleseed.
"I would sleep on couches and I would travel the state in my little car  tiny little thing "  Haifley  says.
 He  visited local officials along the coast  slide projector in hand. "It was grassroots democracy and grassroots activism at its best "  he  says.
In  all  Haifley  convinced 26 coastal cities and counties to adopt similar policies. They were challenged by the oil industry  but upheld by a federal court.
Even today  oil companies can't build new infrastructure without voter approval in most of those places. The zoning rules create what  Haifley  calls "a coastal wall of resistance" against offshore drilling.