The first county supervisor to speak after a marathon public hearing this Tuesday about Sable Offshore Oil Company, was the 5th District supervisor representing the Santa Maria area, Steve Lavagnino.
The chambers were packed with red-shirted environmentalists worried about climate change and with once and future Sable workers worried about their jobs; 95 people had signed up to speak. Mercifully, not all did. Those who did speak were passionate and moving.
Then it was the supervisors’ turn to speak.