On Saturday morning, Sept. 22, in the Courtyard of City Hall, Food & Water Watch, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, Baldwin Hills Oil Watch, Frack Free Culver City, statewide and national organizations will convene the event Don’t Frack with Los Angeles and Culver City: Safe Fracking is a Fairy Tale.
The 10 o’clock program is one of 100 actions taking place around the world as part of the Global Frackdown, an international day of action to ban hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Culver City borders the largest urban oilfield in the nation and one of the largest fracking sites in California.
Concerned residents from Baldwin Hills and Culver City, and activists from all over Los Angeles, will gather at City Hall to send the message that “safe fracking” is a fairy tale. Over breakfast, elected officials, experts on fracking, community leaders and local residents will give a brief update on fracking activity in the Los Angeles Basin. Fairy tale characters, warlocks, ogres, and activists will hand out materials on fracking and hold a rally in Downtown Culver City.
DOGGR, the California Dept. of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources, is expected to release state fracking guidelines this month that will heavily favor oil and gas companies. Faced with the threat of polluted drinking water and declining home values, thousands of concerned citizens in Culver City already have called on their City Council to ban the increasingly controversial energy extraction method that involves blasting millions of gallons of water and carcinogenic chemicals underground and has been linked to water contamination and climate change.
Culver City was first in California to call on the state to ban fracking. The Los Angeles City Council has introduced a resolution calling on the state to halt fracking. To date, 250 communities around the world have taken action against fracking.
RSVP to 323.843.8446 or bnorton@fwwatch.org
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