Keeping California's oil in the ground will improve health but affect jobs, find study NatureEnergyJnl
An interdisciplinary team of researchers investigated the carbon emissions, labor and health implications of several policies to reduce
The authors developed a framework to analyze the impact of three policies: an excise tax ; a carbon tax ; and setbacks at 1000 feet, 2500 feet and 1 mile. Taxes increase the cost of production, curbing activity and driving down emissions. Setbacks essentially ban extraction in areas where people live., the authors found that production decreases because it might not be economical to drill somewhere else.
The researchers then modeled the health impacts of oil production emissions as they spread across California's communities. Finally, they modeled the outcome that each policy would have on jobs and worker compensation. The authors were especially curious how these effects fell on people living in areas that meet California'sThey calibrated the health and labor consequences of each policy based on its ability to reduce carbon.
"The cheapest way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be with a carbon tax because it goes after the most carbon-intensive oil extractors first," Weber said. But since it takes the smallest number of wells out of production per ton ofreduced, a carbon tax offers the lowest total health benefits, while also leading to the lowest job losses.
"It's a hotly debated issue right now because the governor just signed a law banning new oil drilling near communities," said co-lead author Ranjit Deshmukh, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara's Environmental Studies Program. The oil industry quickly circumvented this action by collecting enough signatures to place a referendum on the next ballot.
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