Business View Civil Municipal - Sept 2023

104 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 California Resources Corporation (CRC) is an independent energy and carbon management company committed to low carbon energy and reducing emissions in California to help meet the state’s ambitious climate goals. CRC recognizes that climate change needs to be addressed through thoughtful and responsible government and private sector policies and market-based technology solutions that must benefit working families and all parts of our society. CRC has some of the lowest carbon intensity production in the US, and is focused on developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) and other emissions reducing projects in California. Some of CRC’s proposed projects include Carbon TerraVault and the California Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub. CRC prioritizes local essential energy production and carbon management projects in California because they enable local jobs performed by a highly skilled workforce under the state’s leading safety, labor, human rights, and environmental standards. With a Full-Scope Net Zero Goal by 2045, CRC is leading CCS and local energy production, and empowering our local communities, such as the City of Shafter in Kern County, to be a solution in the energy transition Learn more about CRC’s technology solutions that are helping decarbonize California: CRC.com CarbonTerraVault.com SHAF TER , CAL I F. Shafter is rather, a city on the move and experiencing measurable growth and no one knows this more than the city’s Business Development Coordinator, Bob Meadows, who recently told us all about the city named for Gen. William Rufus Shafter. A Union hero of the War Between the States who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1864, Shafter (an Anglicization of the German surname, Schäffter) would go on to fight in the Spanish- American War, where he saw much action. Action is also synonymous these days with the general’s namesake community. Long famous as a big part of California’s central breadbasket, and now known as well for its manufacturing and logistics, a lot is going on in Shafter, Meadows reveals. The city is a suburb of Bakersfield (some 18 miles away), comprising some 38 square miles and located in Kern County. Shafter is home to more than 21,000 folks these days, some 80 percent of whom are Hispanic, he adds, and it’s one of the fastest-growing cities in all of California. “We’re in a great spot right now,” he says, “the city is. Work, jobs, housing: Shafter is very much all about moving forward—very steadily, very judiciously, and very well planned.” Incorporated in 1938, the history of the community that became Shafter goes back several generations further. As Shafter is quickly gaining on it and establishing its own unique identity. Meadows cites the new Gossamer Grove neighborhood as a prime example. COMMITTED TO THE ENERGY TRANSITION