Sixth in a series
Re “Meghan’s Advice to Big Oil: Study Effects Before Drilling”
Long before she was elected to the City Council two years ago, Vice Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells’s weekdays and weekends were jammed with community activism, and she has not relented since stepping up to the dais.
In the week and a half since she headed a charge for the Council to enact a meaningful ban or at least a moratorium on fracking inside of Culver City – regardless of what the city of Los Angeles does – she talked about the responsibility of elected officials.
“We have a duty to stop the practice of fracking until we see what the effects are on the people who live around the Inglewood Oil Field and other drilling sites,” Ms. Sahli-Wells said.
Why haven’t Gov. Brown and other leaders seized the opportunity to halt this form of oil drilling?
“Several reasons,” the vice mayor said. “The governor’s big thrust has been ‘The economy, the economy, the economy.’ He has done a pretty good job. Obviously, none of us wants to be in debt.
“However, it is a very different story when you are living next to the largest urban oil field in the United States, the Inglewood Oil Field.
“If (Gov. Brown) is just looking at the situation this way – ‘We are going to get money. It will be great. We will be purchasing energy’—for him it sounds like a very good deal. If you look at the donors on the governor’s financial disclosure statement, then you see oil written all over it.”
(To be continued)
