{"id":250942,"date":"2024-05-15T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-california-oil-towns-plan-to-survive-the-energy-transition\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T10:19:02","slug":"a-california-oil-towns-plan-to-survive-the-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/a-california-oil-towns-plan-to-survive-the-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"A California oil town\u2019s plan to survive the energy transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-partner-content\">\n        <em>This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with <\/em><em>High Country News<\/em><em>.<\/em>\n    <\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">Les Clark III took charge of the West Side Recreation and Park District in 2018, just as the bottom was falling out in Taft, California. The oil pumps that surrounded the town of 9,000 had been nodding up and down for decades, but all at once they froze in place, beams hovering in the air like hammers about to fall. The drilling rigs and service trucks vanished from the winding roads around the town, blanketing it with an unfamiliar silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">For as long as Clark could remember, the oil fields around Taft had swarmed with motion. At the time that he took over the rec center, Kern County drilled over 140 million barrels every year, more oil than almost any other county in the U.S. That oil flowed out of the ground and through a network of pipelines to nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/taft-california-kern-county-carbon-capture\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with High Country News. Les Clark III took charge of the West Side Recreation and Park District in 2018, just as the bottom was falling out in Taft, California. The oil pumps that surrounded the town of 9,000 had been nodding up and down for decades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":250943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A California oil town\u2019s plan to survive the energy transition - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/taft-california-kern-county-carbon-capture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A California oil town\u2019s plan to survive the energy transition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with High Country News. 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