The Plains, Exploration & Production Co., PXP, has submitted to the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning a Revised 2009 Annual Drilling Plan, which is now available for review on the Baldwin Hills CSD website at http://www.baldwinhillscsd.com/planscap.htm
Included in the document is information on the approximate locations of new wells, new well pads and wells to be abandoned.
It also contains a schedule for its activities, an overview of the latest equipment, and visual impact photographs that show potential drilling points.
How This Affects Your Safety and Property
PXP plans include 16 wells in close proximity to Windsor Hills and Ladera, and six wells near Culver City.
All of these may have an adverse impact on your property because PXP will drill in each area for 24/7 for stretches of 30 days or more.
Imagine what the vibrations will do to your home’s foundation.
Can you imagine a disaster without the promised earthquake, fire, hazmat, air quality and other safety essentials not yet in place?
Do you want that?
What You Can Do
Safety mitigations called for in the Community Standards District have not yet been drawn up or put in place. The drilling plan ignores this fact!
Demand that:
1. All the mitigations/safety measures are put in place and tested to be sure they work before the County approves any drilling plans. Remember it was a noxious release in Culver City a few years ago when people evacuated homes in the middle of the night that got this whole thing started.
2. An official health survey to be done by L.A. County to get a real baseline before PXP puts in any more wells.
Did you know that if the County approves the permits without the safety protections in place and functioning properly, one blowup could bankrupt us – the city, the County and taxpayers?
How so?
PXP Openly Stated in Their Stockholders' Report That They Do Not Have Adequate Insurance for Such Eventualities.
If their drilling methods trigger a major earthquake, and they go bankrupt, we the taxpayers incur the costs and untold damage.
Did you know that National Public Radio just reported similar type drilling may be the cause of recent earthquakes in Texas? Imagine if Texas had the same topography and fault lines that occur in and around the Inglewood Oil Field.
Listen to the NPR news report at this link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106059425
Take action now.
By Wednesday, send your demand that the County do their job and put public safety before corporate profits (plus other comments and/or questions) to:
Leon Freeman, lfreeman@planning.lacounty.gov and Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, markridleythomas@bos.lacounty.gov
Send copy to Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community (800ccsc@gmail.com)
Use this heading: COMMENT: Revised PXP 2009 Annual Drilling Plan
Ms. Debenedittis, a community activist, may be contacted at debenedittis@sbcglobal.net
