Brentwood moves to ban any future drilling or production of oil and gas

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Judith Prieve is a journalist in East Contra Costa County. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she has worked as a reporter, features editor, editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group for more than 25 years.

Brentwood’s Sunset Exploration Inc. has been drilling for crude oil since 2018 on Deer Valley Road south of Antioch. The firm is partnering with Indiana-based Powerdrive Oil and Gas on some proposed exploratory oil drilling in nearby unincorporated Brentwood. The site is located about a half-mile south of where Heidorn Ranch and Old Sand Creek roads intersect.

“This is a long time coming; we worked really, really hard on this,” said Councilwoman Jovita Mendoza, who first proposed a moratorium on all oil and gas drilling back in March of 2022. “I’ve learned more about oil and gas drilling than I ever thought I would in my entire life,” she said. Brentwood’s revised rules now focus on specific locations in the city where oil and gas development are no longer appropriate as a conditionally permitted uses, including the Garin Ranch development area north of Balfour Road on either side of Garin Parkway, and Sciortino Ranch, a mixed-use community east of Brentwood Boulevard and on both sides of Sand Creek Road.

 

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