Jerry Brown Used State Experts to Seek Oil on Family Land



California governor Jerry Brown used state experts to prepare a 51-page report on the prospects for oil development on his family’s private land in Northern California, according to an Associated Press investigation released early Thursday morning.

“Senior staffers in the state’s oil and gas regulatory agency over at least two days produced a 51-page historical report and geological assessment, plus a personalized satellite-imaged geological and oil and gas drilling map for the area around Brown’s family ranchland near the town of Williams,” the AP reported.

Brown’s office declined to comment, referring the AP instead to the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, which said that the agency had responded to the governor’s request for information as it would have for any other citizen.

Oil company executives and industry executives found that hard to believe, however: “they never heard of regulators carrying out and compiling that kind of research, analysis and mapping for private individuals.”

Roland Bain, a petroleum geologist, told the AP: “Anyone calling in for help is not going to get that.”

Others who saw the maps of Brown’s property praised their detail, calling them “beautiful.” The AP used the state’s open records law to obtain the maps, as well as email correspondence confirming the governor’s unusual request.

The state’s experts ultimately concluded that the prospects for oil on the Brown ranch were “very low,” the AP notes.

The AP was tipped off to the research done for the governor by documents that emerged in a lawsuit by Kern County landowners alleging that Brown was allowing the oil industry to evade state laws protecting groundwater from contamination.

It is illegal for politicians to use state employees or resources for personal benefit.

The state agency said its work for Brown was legal. However, it could not provide the AP with similar examples of research for private citizens.

Over the past few years, as Brown has resisted calls by left-wing groups to ban hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in California, he has faced accusations that he has financial interests in the oil industry. Brown’s support for fracking seemed to contradict his push against fossil fuel use as part of his policy on climate change.

In August, Chriss Street of Breitbart News noted that Brown owed much of his personal wealth to investments in oil, although he also had a plausible policy interest in protecting fracking because of its contribution to state tax revenues.

In 2010, Laer Pierce wrote in the Washington Times: “Mr. Brown has a lot of money–how much exactly is not public–and unhappily for his environmentalist and global-warming-alarmist supporters, it’s oil money.”

Brown has been cited as a potential “dark horse” candidate for president, but has declined to enter the 2016 race.

Well, Yanno...

Moonbeam was governor of California back in the seventies.

The people, had the good sense, to vote that idiot out, once already.

The idiocy must be contagious. Because they voted him back in.


Hate to sound mean.
But, California, can reap what it's sewn.

For those not versed in California politics, Jerry Brown's idiot daddy was governor at one point as well.

The Brown family "dynasty", has all but destroyed any reason, anyone would want to live in California.

Nasty basterds.




Okay... rant over.

So, Gov. Moonbeam wanted to see if he could cash in down the road when oil prices eventually go back up.

Personally I'm thinking he was looking for a water source to tap and then grow weed for the state.

If the work done for Jerry was legal, no problem. Good for him in using his taxpayer paid resources. Just realize now that a couple hundred more such requests will likely filter in starting on Monday morning. These guys are going to be busy for the foreseeable future, as every private land owner goes hunting for resources they can exploit.

Of course the question becomes, if some poor schmuck finds a previously unknown oil reserve of say a billion barrels, would the state let him keep it, or does it expropriate the land, saying $50 billion would lift the state coffers out of the toilet.

Do historical documents 'suddenly' appear in state archives that dispute actual ownership of the land?

Hmmmm. Can't let the unwashed have access to that much cash.

If this were President Bush, Vice President Cheney or any other Republican the Libbo's would be going ape $hit right now. Can we say double standard?

All though I heard since there was no chance of oil found on Brown's property that he is considering a marijuana upstart....

If this were President Bush, Vice President Cheney or any other Republican the Libbo's would be going ape $hit right now. Can we say double standard?

DOUBLE STANDARD

what a "lovable" Piece Of Crap!

APNewsBreak: Only 1 Californian got custom oil map _ Brown

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — State officials have defended Gov. Jerry Brown's request to have regulators map and study his family's ranch for oil, gas and mining potential — arguing that the work by the state was nothing the agency wouldn't do for other members of the public.
California Gov. Jerry Brown addresses attendees of the Ninth Circuit Corrections Summit in Sacramento, Calif. State officials have defended Brown's request to have regulators map and study his family's ranch for oil, gas and mining potential — arguing that the work by the state was nothing the agency wouldn't do for other members of the public. But The Associated Press found no records that show anyone else received the same level of service on private land — and one state lawmaker was even told that state officials couldn't help him map oil wells that were potentially endangering drinking water supplies in his Southern California district.
November 13, 2015

But The Associated Press found no records that show anyone else received the same level of service on private land — and one state lawmaker was even told that state officials couldn't help him map oil wells that were potentially endangering drinking water supplies in his Southern California district.

The state provided the AP late Thursday with dozens of pages of what they said were similar examples to what Brown received in June 2014 when he asked state regulators with the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources to research and map his family's 2,700-acre ranch. The new records appear to show occasions when state oil regulators provided public entities and officials with existing maps, or passed along screen-saves from the state agency's websites.
None of the new records showed anyone getting a custom map of private property, or assessment of their land's oil and gas and mineral potential — both of which Brown got from state regulators last year.

Moonbeam is a liar? Say it ain't so.

http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3956238-apnewsbreak-1-californian-custom-oil-map-brown.html#.23140-stage-set6-3