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June 26, 2014
Butte County Board of Supervisors
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200
Oroville, CA 95965
Dear Butte County Board of Supervisors:
Citizens of Butte County addressed the Board of Supervisors at two BOS meetings in the
beginning of the year regarding our strong concerns that our water must be protected from
fracking. Subsequently, numerous citizen volunteers collected more than 10,000 signatures to
support an initiative allowing citizens to vote on fracking and other forms of extreme drilling in
the county. (We believe such unconventional drilling should not be permitted until and unless it
can be done safely.) Subsequently, on April 8, 2014, the Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to
direct staff to develop an ordinance banning fracking within Butte County. County Counsel, Mr.
Bruce Alpert, has completed extensive research on a fracking ordinance at your direction. The
public needs the opportunity now to scrutinize and review your proposed ordinance. Therefore,
we urge you, the Butte County Board of Supervisors, to place the county -developed ordinance on
your July 29, 2014 agenda.
Recently, the Board of Supervisors in San Benito and Santa Barbara Counties voted to place
their initiative to prohibit land uses related to fracking, cyclic steam injection and other high-
intensity petroleum operations on the November 2014 ballot. We, the 200 Frack-Free Butte
County volunteers and more than 10,000 Butte County citizens, urge the Butte County Board of
Supervisors to follow their example. We consider it to be both a political and moral imperative
that the Supervisors live up to their vote of April 8th to ban fracking, which we also believe to be
in the best interests of all the residents of our beautiful county.
Sincerely,
Aramenta Hawkins
Campaign Coordinator for Frack-Free Butte County
cc: Mr. Paul Hahn, Chief Administrator Officer
Mr. Bruce S. Alpert, County Counsel
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