[Editor’s Note: Racing to beat the deadline before Tuesday’s scheduled vote by the County Board of Supervisors, at 500 W. Temple St., downtown Los Angeles, on rules to govern increased drilling in the Inglewood oilfield, the President of the Culver Crest Homeowners Assn. has sent the following message to members:
We urge and encourage you to phone your comments to the County Board of Supervisors, particularly to Zev Yaroslavsky (213.974.3333) and Gloria Molina (213.974.4111) and tell them to Vote “no” or, at least, postpone the vote on the Community Standards District until we get answers to the dozens of questions that were asked at the hearing. We need a proper Environmental Impact Report first.
Print this PDF Skull to bring with you to the 9:30 a.m. Tuesday meeting of the County Board of Supervisors to show your sentiments about their lack of concern for the health and safety of Baldwin Hills’ and Culver City residents.
Email the Supervisors
Yvonne B. Burke
SecondDistrict@bos.lacounty.gov
Don Knabe
Zev Yaroslavsky
Gloria Molina
Michael D. Antonovich
Make a statement about your personal experience in less than 30 seconds:
- Noxious Odors
- Earth Movement and Cracks
- Fears about Health Effects
- Concerns about Safety
- Subsidence and Uplift
- Highly Fractured Field
- Dangers of fluid (water or steam) injections to yield more oil and gas, the same thing
- that caused the 1985 Fairfax Ross Dress for Less explosion and recent Salt Lake field residential
- neighborhood gas emissions.
Ask Supervisor Burke to fulfill her broken promise of providing
us an Environmental Study of PXP oil and gas drilling that has been ongoing.
• PXP is using fluid (water) injections to pressurize the field to yield more oil and gas, the
same thing that caused the 1985 Fairfax Ross Dress for Less explosion and recent
Salt Lake Field residential neighborhood gas emissions.
• PXP had already drilled wells as part of their deep drilling 1000-plus wells project that
led to Supervisor Burke halting that drilling two years ago because of public outcry
about overhanging noxious gas clouds, cracking foundations, vibration and noise.
• Supervisor Burke determined the oil field operation was a clear and present danger.
At that time Supervisor Burke promised to do an environmental study of PXP’s oil field and drilling operations. She has not
Burke’s History of Avoiding Action to Protect your Health, Safety, Property Values
• Supervisor Burke did not fulfill her promise. Instead she sided with the oil interests, helping
PXP to avoid oversight of this dangerous, hazardous oil and gas field production operation
in a densely populated area of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County's Baldwin Hills Oil Field Operation Zoning Study (Nov. 2006) Staff Report said:
“Once the CSD for the oil and gas field is established,
individual drilling and well permits would be processed with a site plan review, provided the applicant complies with the standards set forth in the CSD. This approach would allow the County to initially apply a discretionary process and set
standards for the oil field operations that would apply to all future operations.
“It would also give the oil and gas field operator the benefit of a onetime discretionary process where the impacts and issues are addressed and all
future operations are considered and conceptually approved.”
• Supervisor Burke is letting PXP treat residents like a disposable commodity.
• By selling us a policy-only CSD point of view, both the County and PXP
are trying to avoid the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act
to do a site-specific study.
• Failure to act will leave the community’s health and safety unprotected and set a dangerous precedence.
• Supervisor Burke’s promise to do an Environmental Study of this oil field must be fulfilled.
• There never has been strict enforcement of existing regulations.
• State regulatory agencies were told to withhold comment on the EIR.