County taking public comment on streamlined oil well permits

BAKERSFIELD, CA- One person called it a watershed period for Kern County's oil industry.
It was a marathon meeting Monday as county supervisors and planning commissioners held their first public workshop on a massive plan to streamline oil and gas permitting. That plan is contained in a five-volume draft report released earlier this month. The bulk of the report is a comprehensive environmental impact review of all oil and gas activities in Kern County on nearly three million acres of land