Our mission at OOG is to educate the citizens and their elected and appointed officials about the impact human activities have on the ocean, both industrial and recreational. There are simple rules to follow in order to lessen those impacts: We must stop removing the last, large breeding stock from the ocean, stop using the sea as a cheap dumping ground for the detritus of society, consider the effect our sound is having on the marine environment, and adjust any of our behaviors that are changing the oceans temperature and chemical makeup. Although these changes may seem impossible, all it really takes is to change our minds.
'OOG' uses diplomacy as well as direct action, such as when we demonstrated out front of the Orange County Sanitation District 12 hours a day for 14 months resulting in their 240 MGD (million gallons a day) sewage discharge being upgraded within 11 years from filthy pathogen-laden primary to full secondary treatment required by the Clean Water Act. Our members educate themselves, attend meetings, and speak with passion and eloquence. Our one requirement for members? MUST WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD.
In 2000, after saving the California Coastal Act at now famous Little Shell Wetland in Huntington Beach, three passionate citizen-savers clasped hands in a 3-way handshake and OOG was born. We went straight after the OCSD 'waiver', and along with 300 or so of our best activist friends, beat them in 14 months. We then stopped what would have been the largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere at the AES power plant in Huntington Beach. OOG went on to stop the San Diego sewage waiver (but were overturned by then-Gov. Gray Davis), then on to stop the Morro Bay waiver, and led the charge to create 4 State Marine Reserves in California waters. OOG activist's also spearheaded a movement involving 24 groups with 28 million members worldwide who shut down the seismic testing at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. OOG members authored petitions and successful resolutions to save whales, wetlands and old growth forests, and we still feel our best work is yet to come!
In 2009, we ONCE AGAIN stopped the terrible San Diego sewage waiver, this time to be overturned by then Governor Arnold Swarzenegger. That waiver allows 330 MGD of primary sewage to be dumped into the sea off Point Loma at Cabrillo National Monument! 50 BILLION gallons each year into the surf from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant AND STILL POURING. That 5-year waiver ends soon and wiil need to be stopped again- we're gonna need you!
Please consider getting involved through direct action, charitable donation or any other way best suited to your individual style. SAVING THE WORLD IS NOT SO FAR FETCHED AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE.
With love and respect
Joey Racano, Director
Ocean Outfall Group
Join our ongoing campaigns on facebook at: Stop the Diablo Canyon Seismic testing and Stop Navy Sonar Testing
'OOG' uses diplomacy as well as direct action, such as when we demonstrated out front of the Orange County Sanitation District 12 hours a day for 14 months resulting in their 240 MGD (million gallons a day) sewage discharge being upgraded within 11 years from filthy pathogen-laden primary to full secondary treatment required by the Clean Water Act. Our members educate themselves, attend meetings, and speak with passion and eloquence. Our one requirement for members? MUST WANT TO SAVE THE WORLD.
In 2000, after saving the California Coastal Act at now famous Little Shell Wetland in Huntington Beach, three passionate citizen-savers clasped hands in a 3-way handshake and OOG was born. We went straight after the OCSD 'waiver', and along with 300 or so of our best activist friends, beat them in 14 months. We then stopped what would have been the largest desalination plant in the western hemisphere at the AES power plant in Huntington Beach. OOG went on to stop the San Diego sewage waiver (but were overturned by then-Gov. Gray Davis), then on to stop the Morro Bay waiver, and led the charge to create 4 State Marine Reserves in California waters. OOG activist's also spearheaded a movement involving 24 groups with 28 million members worldwide who shut down the seismic testing at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. OOG members authored petitions and successful resolutions to save whales, wetlands and old growth forests, and we still feel our best work is yet to come!
In 2009, we ONCE AGAIN stopped the terrible San Diego sewage waiver, this time to be overturned by then Governor Arnold Swarzenegger. That waiver allows 330 MGD of primary sewage to be dumped into the sea off Point Loma at Cabrillo National Monument! 50 BILLION gallons each year into the surf from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant AND STILL POURING. That 5-year waiver ends soon and wiil need to be stopped again- we're gonna need you!
Please consider getting involved through direct action, charitable donation or any other way best suited to your individual style. SAVING THE WORLD IS NOT SO FAR FETCHED AS SOME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE.
With love and respect
Joey Racano, Director
Ocean Outfall Group
Join our ongoing campaigns on facebook at: Stop the Diablo Canyon Seismic testing and Stop Navy Sonar Testing
