Stop the On Platform Gilda Well Stimulation Treatment
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement on Platform Gilda Well Stimulation Treatment
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management· Platform Gilda, Outer Continental Shelf offshore Ventura, CaliforniaFederal Register 2026-05319 ↗

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4 groups work California
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- California Wilderness Coalition
Works California: spent years building the designation campaign with Tribal nations and now defends the monument as an intervenor in federal court.
- Friends of the Desert Mountains
Works California: coachella Valley land conservancy that helped establish Sand to Snow and worked with The Wildlands Conservancy on acquisitions inside the monument footprint..
- Friends of the Inyo
Works California: runs the Eastern Sierra opposition to the gold exploration projects around the Bodie Wilderness Study Area and hosts the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership's donation and newsletter operations..
- Los Padres ForestWatch
Works California: has led opposition to oil drilling in the Los Padres region for two decades and is fighting the plan to reopen 400,000 acres to leasing.
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BOEM is launching an environmental review process for a proposal by DCOR, L.L.C. to hydraulically fracture up to 16 existing wells on Platform Gilda, an offshore oil platform near Ventura, California. The agency's Notice of Intent kicks off public scoping to identify key issues and alternatives that'll be analyzed in a full Environmental Impact Statement. This affects federal offshore waters in the Pacific and could have implications for marine ecosystems, coastal communities, and California's offshore energy policy.
In the agency’s own words
Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Interior (Department or DOI) regulations and handbook implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and DOI's alternative arrangements to comply with NEPA during a national emergency, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to consider the impacts of DCOR, L.L.C.'s (DCOR) proposal to supplement its existing approved Development and Production Plan (DPP). The proposed supplemental DPP details information and procedures for proposed Well Stimulation Treatments (WST), including hydrauli…
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