A plan to add about 70 oil tanker trucks to traffic on local highways has a number of environmental groups worried. Under a proposed plan by ExxonMobil, trucks would get off Highway 101 from their Las Flores Canyon Facility and head to the Phillips 66 plant in Santa Maria or to Kern County off the 166. Some environmentalists believe trucks are the least safe way to transport oil. ExxonMobil officials point out that, in early 2016 nearly 17 million gallons of oil were trucked from the Las Flores Canyon facility to Santa Maria without incident. you can weigh in on the project at a teleconference at the Betteravia Government Center in Santa Maria on May 6th starting at 6 p.m…
