1000 oil wells?

A group of folks from Culver City, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills and Los Angeles met with a commission from the County Board of Supervisors to raise our voices about PXP, a Texas-based oil subsdiary of Halliburton, that has rights to drill in the Inglewood Oil Field near Kennth Hahn State Park. We bused in (I walked from LA Attorney Dispute Resolution Program on 2nd and Hill-later took the public bus home with my friend Ruth Sarnoff) to conserve gasoline. At a previous meeting PXP executives minimized the impact of their scheme, saying that they would probably drill "only 24 wells a year", which of course is one every two weeks, a steady pace of environmental assault.

Their self -imposed CSD makes them look like heros for applying stringent requirements that they must then meet. They are requiring themselves to protect Native American buriel grounds, and to landscape with drought-tolerant native plants. However, they are not going to protect us from the long-lasting degradation of our local habitat: schools with hundreds of children, homes that already suffer from toxic fumes, noise and ground uplift. They have NO Business drilling in a high density, urban area. See the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance website for more information. http://www.cityprojectca.org/ourwork/baldwinhills.html also http://www.chc-inc.org/chcRegionalLB.cfm