Jan. 6—Climate action has again threatened to cut into Kern’s property tax revenue — but this time, county staff are going in with a plan to help make up the difference and, in the process, create an incentive for permit applicants to bring in associated businesses.

The challenge is that local oil and gas wells will need to come offline to make way for a large carbon dioxide burial operation proposed in western Kern by petroleum producer California Resources Corp. While it’s unclear how the resulting CO2 storage might ultimately be taxed, or not, the operation would take a large swath of oil field off the county’s property tax roll.

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