Posted on 10/16/2009 11:03:30 AM PDT by La Enchiladita
The Culver City Council on Monday unanimously approved a moratorium to halt drilling in the Inglewood Oil Field until next August, by when city officials hope to have drafted a new ordinance that ensures the public’s safety and welfare.
The new moratorium will extend one that expires Oct. 8 by 10 months, until Aug. 23, 2010.
Plains, Exploration & Production Company, the primary operator of the oil field, has already sent four notices of intent to drill new wells to the State Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, even though the oil company agreed with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors not to drill in Culver City in 2009.
...With PXP seeking to begin new drilling as soon as possible, the council and city staff agreed to organize an effort to adopt a new ordinance to “protect the public safety, health, and welfare.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wavenewspapers.com ...
One of the more recent outcries occurred in January 2006, when a leak caused the smell from the field to seep into the Culver Crest, giving some residents headaches and forcing others to spend the night in their cars.
In their cars... which run on gasoline. Darwin award please.
I’m curious. How many people have died directly as a result of oil drilling? :)
I use to play in those oil fields as a youngun
Fools!
It doesn’t help my health, safety, and welfare here in New Hampshire to freeze in the dark.
We had our first snowfall this morning, October 16, in southern New Hampshire.
It’s a bright, blazing hot day in SoCal.
Sorry the idiot libs are so effin’ selfish.
Dangerous dummies at it again ping.
Actually MGM(Sony) ,the various movie studios and Hughes Aircraft(defunct) made Culver City what is was today. Very little new drilling going on in
Culver City and what ‘new’ there is , is abutted up against
the more highend and politically active homes in the area. Hence, the moratorium and legislation.Beverly Hills gave the
boot to oil righs in the 60s. Personally, I say drill here, drill now. But nearby property owners frequently have their say also.
Whiner...
Central PA got 6+ inches...
It’s always good to have someone knowledgeable join the discussion. A friend of mine, long time resident of Culver City, told me the oil revenues made them a rich city. However, I recognize the studios are there and contribute to the boom and the building. Culver City is now reportedly 65-80% Democrat.
California is bankrupt, and suffering from the worst unemployment since the Depression.
Meanwhile the oil offshore percolates up through the ocean floor whether you drill for it or not, it is right there for the taking. The oil puts people to work, the royalties from the oil go right into the government coffers not to mention the income taxes, and the taxes on profits, and the taxes on the enormously expensive equipment purchased, for the thousands of people and all the businesses directly involved in building the platforms thousands more work in labs and fab shops around the country supporting this work.
To be bankrupt while sitting atop enormous wealth, to sit atop enormous wealth and send hundreds of billions out of the country buying fuel when its right there under your feet, this is willful stupidity. Our leaders are shills for OPEC. They are not worthy of office. The people who elected them deserve what they get. Unfortunately, we’re stuck in the same boat with them, and we don’t deserve it.
Marron, I lived in Santa Monica for 16-1/2 years and walked on the beach countless times. I can’t tell you how many times I had to clean crude off the bottoms of my feet.
Along came Heal the Bay and their cohorts, the protests against Occidental Petroleum... remember that?.... from the Pacific Palisades elite and so forth.
Now, they can claim we don’t need it because of their funky little hybrid cars and those electric 3-wheelers that don’t belong on the same road with grown-ups.
“Beverly Hills gave the
boot to oil righs in the 60s”
It might be on the edge of Beverly Hills but Occidental still has their drilling site in operation.
They should remove the 10% tax that Carter put in and open up all the oil fields in Los Angeles and Orange Counties!
They are both awash in oil!
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