1988: oil from water.'Los Angeles voters have been blinded to right and wrong," the Business Journal concluded in October of 1988. The evaluation was made in regard to the controversial Propositions O and P, which would decide the fate of proposed oil drilling in the Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). by Occidental Petroleum Occidental Petroleum Corporation ("Oxy") NYSE: OXY is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with operations in the United States, Middle East/North Africa and Latin America regions. Corp. Occidental's request was to allow "the establishment of three oil drilling districts comprising 594 acres, ... a single 155-foot oil derrick and up to 60 oil and natural gas wells." But the Business Journal noted that such phrasing might make "a semi-informed voter ... more likely to mistakenly vote against his own wishes than ... an uninformed voter." After all, the deceptively named Los Angeles Public and Coastal Protection Committee was the sponsor of the pro-drilling measure P. And advertising failed to reveal that 90 percent of its funds came from Oxy. In the end, lobbyists from the Sierra Club Sierra Club, national organization in the United States dedicated to the preservation and expansion of the world's parks, wildlife, and wilderness areas. Founded (1892) in California by a group led by the Scottish-American conservationist John Muir, the Sierra Club , Heal the Bay Heal the Bay is a U.S. environmental advocacy non-profit organization based in Santa Monica, California. Heal the Bay is dedicated to protecting California's Santa Monica Bay, a region of the Pacific coast encompassed by Malibu's Point Dume on the north and the Palos Verdes and the League of Conservation Voters The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is an independent, nonpartisan political advocacy organization that was founded in 1969 by the noted American environmentalist David Brower. convinced residents to vote against the drilling plans. In 2000, however, the company went offshore by purchasing four man-made islands off of Long Beach Harbor. The oil-drilling islands have been developed "to look like resorts," according to Occidental's Web site. "An elaborate irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. system keeps more than 700 palm trees alive in the unusual island soil," said Occidental. "Oil drilling derricks are soundproofed and camouflaged to resemble high-rise apartments. Abstract sculptures and waterfalls, some as high as 45 feet, are offset by attractive landscaping and colorful night lighting." |
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