Posted on 10/22/2006 10:57:48 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered Sunday to protest a natural gas facility proposed for a site 14 miles off the Malibu coast.
"We have to use our voices and band together and stop this," said Oscar winner Halle Berry.
The gathering _ also attended by Cindy Crawford, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke and Tea Leoni _ was intended to raise awareness about how the energy industry has invested billions to liquefy and ship natural gas across oceans.
There are five facilities proposed for California, with three along the Southern California coastline. One of the world's largest energy companies, Australian-based BHP Billiton, is seeking to build the terminal off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. A decision is expected next year.
BHP officials say the terminals would provide a reliable source of low-polluting energy. Opponents, however, say the terminals would not meet clean air requirements and could be terrorist targets.
Brosnan, who hosted the protest, said his opposition to the terminals extends beyond the beach in his backyard. He plans to oppose other proposed terminals, including one in Long Beach and one in Port Hueneme.
Mark Massara, a lawyer and director of the Sierra Club's California Coastal Program, said the recent celebrity interest in the terminals has helped their cause tremendously.
"This is the greatest thing that has happened to our effort," he said. "We have struggled over the last three years."
Following a pancake breakfast, dozens of surfers, including actress Daryl Hannah on her pink board, paddled out to a sign bobbing in the water. The message to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has the power to veto the proposal, had a picture of the proposed terminal with a red line through it and the words: "Terminate it!"
Also build a Wind Farm in front of the Kennedy property.
Shut off power to all these limousine liberals homes.
Holy Moly! These people are so short-sighted that their eyeballs must be in backwards!
Envirowacko alert.
That's a new NIMBY argument that I haven't heard before.
-PJ
They know they have the bucks to get their power, so screw the
rest of us if there is any chance their view will be impaired.
Humm...Why do I get this feeling that producers aren't exactly ringing his phone off the hook?
This is some funny sh_t! They don't want nukes. They don't want coal. They don't want oil fired power plants....and now they don't want natural gas. Too funny.
Get ready USA...for the mass of exodus of californians from that future third world cess pool.
I think he still gets work offers, but the romantic leading man stuff will have to diminish. If Brosnan shows up at the other sites it would be to make his interest seem less self serving than it probably is.
What these freaks want is no danger to their views or possible decline in the value of their property whatever it may cost society as a whole, just like Kennedy and the wind farms.
And it's one heck of a back yard. Fourteen miles out would put the facilities over the horizon.
It interesting to hear a bunch of liberals say they're concerned about terrorist attacks, in any case.
Dick Van Dyke? Damn, I would've thought he had better sense. This wasn't some damned neighborhood association meeting.
Without doubt!
You'd think that Hollywood itself would be more of a target than an NGL plant over the horizon. I thought that it's the decadent American lifestyle that's being transported around the world via our movies, TV, and music that's supposed to be causing the clash of cultures.
They would be visible from the hills on the two or three days a year when the air is clear and dry.
Who are they?
Honest to gosh, my first reaction was, "Whose turn was it to watch Gramma?"
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