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Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast

The Business Alliance for Protecting the Pacific Coast is the leading business voice opposing expanded oil and gas development off the Pacific Coast.

05/21/2026

ADMINISTRATION USES OBSCURE WORLD WAR II LAW TO OVERRIDE CALIFORNIA VOTERS AND RESTART OFFSHORE OIL PIPELINE
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This is a horrible precedent that business owners along our coasts cannot let stand. The Defense Production Act was cited by the Trump Administration to restart the Sable Pipeline. This benefits a Texas based oil company and puts tens of thousands of coastal Californian jobs and our economies at great risk.

If they can ignore State laws for spurious reasons, then your own business is at risk of being taken and/or harmed by the Federal government and the next offshore oil spill. Let’s not let that happen.

DM for details on how you can stand up for your business.

03/31/2026

WHEN WE DRILL, WE SPILL

Fisheries Grounded | Markets Empty | Restaurants Suffer

This is happening NOW in the Gulf.

NOT IN CALIFORNIA, PLEASE.

JOIN BAPPC! IT’S FREE!! OFFSHORE OIL IS BAD FOR BUSINESS!!!

03/18/2026

The Federal Administration and Interior Department has invoked the Defense Production Act to re-open the Sable pipeline in Santa Barbara County. This Cold War era law and proclaimed “national emergency” is circumventing California’s environmental and permitting process and setting a frightening precedent for local control and state’s rights. This is not pro business, but rather pudding 95% of our coastal GDP at risk. Stay tuned to learn how you can push back on this shocking development. See full article link in bio.

03/05/2026

BAPPC: The Federal Plan to Drill Our Coast is Wrong For OC’s Businesses and Economy

by Grant Bixby

The morning after the 2021 oil spill off Huntington Beach, the air smelled like asphalt. Beaches were roped off with yellow tape. Seabirds flailed helplessly in the tar. Dead fish floated in a black pool of oil at the Santa Ana Rivermouth. The Pacific Air Show was cancelled. Lifeguard towers stood empty, restaurants locked their doors, and the small businesses that depend on a clean, open coastline watched their livelihoods vanish overnight.
For weeks, tourists canceled hotel reservations and rental bookings. Entire coastal towns – places that come alive on weekends with families, anglers, and vacationers – fell silent. Lost visitors and an ocean awash in toxic oil meant lost income for hundreds of other local businesses: hotels, fishermen, restaurants, surf shops, tour guides.
That’s what an oil spill does – it devastates our beaches, our wildlife, and our economy.
Unfortunately, the federal government doesn’t appear interested in learning from this brutal lesson from our county’s recent history.

Continued—Full story link bio

02/11/2026

GREAT OP ED BY BUSINESS LEADERS—LINK IN BIO

WHO: Kristen Brown, Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce; Terence Concannon, CEO of Visit Santa Cruz County; Melissa Mahoney, Executive Director of Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust.

WHAT: Offshore oil and gas is bad for business in Santa Cruz County and Monterrey Bay areas.

WHY: Newsflash! Our healthy oceans and clean beaches are our economic engine in California, but the Interior Department is fast tracking offshore oil and gas development where it is not wanted or needed, at great risk and cost to Californians, our business community and all those who visit our beautiful coastlines.

HOW: Oppose this plan by checking out saveourshores.org/drilling/ or savemycoast.org for information.

01/13/2026

How: Register at our LinkTr.ee bio – top button

California Natural Resources Agency  Hosts Discussion on Preventing New Oil Drilling  on California’s Coast

Federal agencies propose to open vast swaths of California’s coastline to new oil and gas drilling for the first time in over four decades. It threatens our economy, coastal communities, and sensitive ocean environment. Protecting our coast is uniting thousands of leaders, communities and businesses against this destructive proposal.

Join us to learn more about what federal agencies are planning, how Californians are fighting back, and how you can join community hearings across our state.

What: Secretary Speaker Series - Not On Our Watch: Stopping More Oil Drilling on California’s Coast

When: Thursday, January 15, 2026, from noon to 1 p.m.

How: Register at our LinkTr.ee bio – top button.

Who:
• Wade Crowfoot, Secretary, California Natural Resources Agency
• Jennifer Savage, California Policy Associate Director, Surfrider Foundation
• Jon R. Siepmann, Executive Director, Governor’s Military Council, State of California
• Richard Ogg, President of Bodega Bay Fisherman’s Marketing Association
• Laurie Davies, Assemblymember, California’s 74th Assembly District (Orange County)
• Justin Cummings, 3rd District Supervisor, Santa Cruz County

01/11/2026

BAPPC spoke alongside elected officials, NGO partners, and other stakeholders against the new 5-year offshore oil plan (see link in bio).
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YOU have until Jan. 23 to post your opposition in the Federal Register to get California OUT of the new offshore drilling plan. BAPPC makes it easy for you to help in JUST 2 CLICKS from our Insta bio.
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JOIN THE FIGHT NOW!!!
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01/05/2026

JOIN BAPPC TO STOP NEW OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING IN CALIFORNIA

We have until January 23rd to make our business and community voices heard by the Interior Department and Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM).

If they successfully approve millions of acres of offshore oil leases from Humbolt to San Diego, YOU could be looking a new oil rigs 3 miles off your home beach.

An oil spill WILL:

* Harm business owners, their employees, and customers
* Ruin your vacation, weekend, or daily visits to YOUR ocean
* Destroy your local habitat and favorite places
* Risk 95% of our coastal economy for the benefit of the dirtiest 5%.

New drilling WILL:

* Cause more spills
* Lock in decades of increased carbon output
* Saddle taxpayers with clean up and decommissioning costs.

Visit the link in our BIO to learn more. JOIN for FREE. DM for details on how you can help.

12/07/2025

JOIN BAPPC at Orange County People’s Hearing

* Mon., DEC. 8
* 7:00-8:30 PM
* Costa Mesa Library, Adams Room

12/04/2025

JOIN BAPPC at San Diego People’s Hearing
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* THURS., DEC. 4
* 6-8PM
* Encinitas Community Center
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https://defendthepacific.org/

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