Four years before Gov. Gavin Newsom set in motion the managed decline of California's oil industry, Aera Energy CEO Christina Sistrunk was asking questions about the mechanics, and wisdom, of such an undertaking.
In an interview with The Californian in 2015, a few short months after she moved to Bakersfield to assume command of the company, which produces a quarter of the state's oil and gas, Sistrunk wondered what the roadmap for a possible wholesale transition to renewable energy might look like and who might be asked to the table to help chart it.
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