Glenn Battles - Santa Maria

In the past several weeks there have been several letters to the editor claiming the oil companies may, might, could contaminate our aquifer and the air we breathe, or disturb natural habitat as they drill for oil and gas, or inject wastewater back to where it was pumped from. The oil fields are already there, […]

At the board of supervisors meeting on June 13, a statement was made saying that oil production lowers your property value. In my case, this is false, and I have the tax assessment documents to prove it. The only thing that lowered my property value was the real estate bust in 2008. Another statement was […]