From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:50:26 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] "L.A. [California] oil-drilling site could be turned into affordable housing" |
L.A. oil-drilling site could be turned into affordable housing by Emily Alpert Reyes Los Angeles Times (CA) April 9, 2017 An oil company is floating tentative plans to shut down a drilling site next to a Los Angeles school and replace it with affordable housing. The 4th Avenue site in Arlington Heights has been the focus of neighborhood activists, who worry that idle wells there could eventually deteriorate and leak chemicals into the air or groundwater. Residents have also demanded city action on alleged violations under the facility’s previous owner. Now City Council President Herb Wesson says a new operator, Sentinel Peak Resources, has been talking with his office about closing the site and cleaning it up. No official plan has been drafted and details are scant, but Wesson said he was “unbelievably excited” about the idea, arguing it could pave the way to convert other local drilling sites. … For the entire article, see http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drilling-site-plan-20170407-story.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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