“Does anyone here breathe air?” asked Jason Dominguez, Santa Barbara city councilmember, over a loudspeaker at a rally this afternoon at UCSB against “Dirty Oil.”
The rally was to “show our elected officials that we are behind them in a transition to 100 percent renewable energy,” said rally organizer Alena Simon of Food & Water Watch, wearing a shirt that read “What the Frack.”
Dirty Oil is a term used to represent unclean fossil fuel drilling techniques such as steam injection, steam flood, and offshore fracking, according to Simon.