Crude L.A.: California's Urban Oil Fields
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2016
- For nearly four months, the Aliso Canyon methane leak just north of Los Angeles spewed several thousand metric tons of potent greenhouse gases into the air before it was finally sealed in February. The disaster displaced residents, forced schools to close, and incited widespread distrust in the local government's regulation of the oil and gas industry.
Few people realize that Los Angeles was actually built on oil. The Aliso Canyon natural gas facility is just one of thousands of oil and gas drilling and storage sites located in and around the city, which is also home to the country's largest urban oil field. Thousands of wells dot the cityscape, and many operate in highly populated, low-income neighborhoods.
VICE News visited Los Angeles, California to investigate how carcinogenic fumes from urban oil drilling are affecting local communities.
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an oil field with a mcdonalds next to it, you can't picture merica' better.
+Marten Homma right on willow and cherry ave there a gas station as well
ikr
needs a gun store on the other side
+Jttv and it needs a costco as well
+Marten Homma Yeah, it would be way more patriotic if we bought our oil from Saudis
Your telling me when you build a city around an old oil field, it's the oil companies fault???
@Constitutional Conservative thats nothing compared to japan where they build nuclear power facilities on top of fault lines. Thats why fukashima's reactors busted and sunk. That plant is still polluting the pacific ocean with radiation.
I had NO idea that la had fuking oil and not just some oil but ALOT of it. And yet la oil is ALL IMPORTED
i think you're missing the point.
@@davidt8087 LA doesn't have as much oil as you think
But where in this video it's told that city was build around on oil field and there's not only 1 oil field there 10s of oil field in LA.
Old joke: What happens when the smog over Los Angeles clears?
UCLA.
😂😂🤣🤣
Good dad joke my dude
Old old joke . Reading this in 2019
OIl rigs where there before most of the people moved in. People moved in, near to oil rigs because the houses and land were cheap. Its just like someone who buys a home near a loud airport because the home is cheap and then complains about the noise.
I scratched my head at that woman next to the refinery complaining about the smell. Look at where you moved in!
Tim Riordan sucha great point
Tim Riordan I wanna feel bad but this is true
Because that's what people can afford tf... You think that if they made 100grand plus a year they would choose to live there... Fuckin nut cases on this comment thread
You are absolutely 100% right
"but... but... would someone *please* think of the children"... This pretty much summarize Vice.
+lacombar Children of color only
used to be such a good news channel recently it's turned into Fox News
highlander723 you meant CNN, right ?
+lacombar yea CNN
+lacombar let's see over dramatic false sources and last but not least.... you know what that is CNN and Fox News so you're right I guess they should include CNN then.
CMV: so all these oil rigs and sites sprung up around LA back then, so now there's people that decided they want to move there and now are complaining of the oil companies? The fuck?
+Henry Hazlitt It's Vice. They are also saying Europe should adjust for "refugees" not the other way.
So...where is the outrage against the people who built housing next to the wells? Or the landlords who rent them? Why is the reporter using plastic frames and acrylic lens for his cool glasses? How cam you hate-on something when you enjoy your life with products that come from oil?
that random rooster seemed happy
that rooster is my happiness
Aw..😁
The Fig be nearby.
Did people forget the original L.A. dream was to own a home, palm tree and oil rig in their front lawns?
I've lived in Los Angeles for my entire life, and I never considered the oil rigs that troublesome. These rigs are EVERYWHERE! Hollywood, Redondo Beach(oil rig ships), and all over the highways and freeways. I've never heard anyone talk about how bad they are, this report seems very forced.
+Annette S la is garbage you deserve it
I also see this as the rent is cheaper because of the oil drills. If they remove the oil drills, the rent will go up and again the cycle continues.
How is the rent cheaper
@@shrekgamer4199 lower land value
Im sure making the rent go up and property get bought. Is exactly why VICE cooked up this nonsense. As a 3 rd gen oilfield hand. I can assure you they dont know jack smack about fracking or acidizing.
damn those old pictures of LA are crazy
The oil and gas wells...30,000+ of them...were there long before people moved to the LA Basin. This video sounds a lot like the guy who builds a house next to a rifle range and then demands the range be shut down "for the safety of his family".
*you're. If you're going to call me stupid, being able to spell would be helpful.
*you're. If you're going to call me stupid, being able to spell would be helpful.
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You can really see the bias in this video if you’re already educated on the subject. These oil pumps aren’t solely located in poor neighborhoods, as vice would have you believe. There’s even a pump on Beverly Hills High School property , one of the most rich and posh schools in the country. Sucks when media organizations seek to provide a narrative instead of inform
But the negative effects are significantly... Concentrated, no?
Wow this is news to me, I thought Los Angeles would be running off of butterfly farts and rainbows by now.
The problem is not that there are oil fields but they are close to residential areas where children play.
+Matt if the oli fields were there first and then people started building houses - then whos fault is it? you can clearly see thet that mexican lady lives in the poor part of town ( btw no english ). also saying "kids are smaller so pollution works more on them" is fucking retarded. if poeple dont like the smell - they can just move, but the fact is that LA was built on oil, just like when you have a factory and a city is built to support it.
Lol 😂
+Ricky thats sf, la is bad ass capitalism
+Ricky The Leftists/SJWs/Hispanic Nationalists/White Regressives running the place into the ground have run out of other peoples money to spend.
Vice: you missed an obvious follow-up question, "How can dangerous wells be grandfathered by environmental legislation?" If something is proved to be dangerous, it is dangerous and should be brought to spec or terminated.
LA's notorious urban sprawl is the reason for this. The oil fields came long before the houses, and the city's suburban population leaked across the landscape into what were originally industrial areas outside the city. If you're stupid enough to live in California, let alone LA you have nobody but yourself to blame. Keep in mind these people pay a premium price to live there and coud afford a larger house in a much cleaner area if they moved to a non-shitty state.
to be fair a lot of these people living in those areas are on what are known as low income housing or tax-funded housing. these are people that basically did not take education seriously did not apply themselves and blame other people for their misery now
+highlander723 That is an extremely ignorant statement.
+Hank Hill Tough talk from a cartoon character. But tell me how I'm wrong.
+largelysubatomic the smog is fucking grosssss
+largelysubatomic Lol you jealous moron.
You will complain, but you will still use the oil? Makes sense right?
I.DONT.....!!!!!
As an Oil Field worker. I can tell you that even small amounts of low level of H2S particulates, which releases the spoiled egg smell is known to cause health issues of exposed for a long period of time.
As long as our government is polluted by the corruption that lobbyist bring; there will be no safeguard for the majority of our citizens.
I have worked on a drilling rig for 12 hours a day for years with no problems... Never even heard of problems with sickness, nose bleeds etc.
Of course he says he can't smell it, otherwise he'd be admitting to fumes.
He has probably adapted to it and no longer smells it in the air.
So wait a minute. We blame the evil oil companies for putting these dangerous facilities in residential areas and near schools.but now we find out that they were there first. The city moved out to them and surrounded them.
So how can anyone complain after buying a house that was near one of these things and then suing the oil company for polluting their home. Why would you move near it in the first place and why would the city allow a home to be built near these facilities. Sounds like the city should be sued and the idiots who move near these facilities should be sued for interfering with the oil companies. The oil companies have had to put up with the city invading it's land. Of course, it's not the first time. Cities have invaded farmers for decades. Farmers have been forced to sell and move out. Looks like the Oil Companies are not immune to this onslaught of City encroachment except they make more money than farmers and are still there, but they are suffering for it. The other side of the coin.
Does the global climate crisis change your mind about this at all?
How did you find out that they were there first?
@@sarthakjaiswal5864 its just the history of the area, how do you think LA got as big as it did? oil and gold
@@bendy113 but people started living in Americas from 17th century and oil industry started in late 19th century.
Exactly. It doesn’t even really matter that it’s an oil company.
They do the same thing to motorcycle and car race tracks. The tracks will have been there for decades and then a developer comes in and builds homes all around the track. Then the people that move in there complain about the noise and dust and get it shut down.
It’s even happened to concrete plants etc. maybe people should take responsibility for their decisions.
96,000 metric tons of methane? I release that with just a dozen farts.
it's not racism. it's class-ism. *it's not the color of your skin but how much money you have and or make that matters.*
+tonyfalca kanye?
+tonyfalca But but but what about the Muslims Vice?
exactly. I'm so sick of everything being about skin color they really want a race war.
+Thomas Young .,,... he punk thats fucking offensive ,.. you must have been the dumbest egg !!! how can you wish a war based on the fucking skin tone ,... shame on you you ignorent racist fuck fart
If I was rich, I wouldn't want the smell of an oil field near me... It's not really classism, it's just that the rich community would never allow such a thing in their backyard.
Most oil fields there were there before the people lived there.
feels like a college class project
forced and pointless
+Hamdar7 Oil shill
awareness
Professor Bond gives it a gentleman's D+.
Yet you took the time to watch and comment.
You can always watch Fox News
they are content with the lower rent that they get because of the oil well nearby
+Maurazio That's not really how it works. Just because you can't afford a better place to live, doesn't mean you get poisoned as a result. In the US our standards should be gold not bronze. People of all incomes deserve clean air. Hell the whole world deserves clean air.
CannabisCultureTechLife it's not a matter of being able to afford, you probably save a few hundreds bucks by living there, a thing you can also obtain by living in another shitty area (maybe with higher crime) or having a longer commute.
Of course I agree oil wells have no place inside a city, but history is weird and LA sure has a weird and unique history, you could shut them down but LA people has to be ready to dish out compensation money because of the mess their predecessors created with extremely long concessions (how could they know at the time though, those were wells in the middle of the desert, maybe planning is more at fault here, they should not have allowed to build houses in a 0.5 km radius of oil wells or something).
Exactly. They should own their decisions for choosing to live there. Especially considering the Wells and oil field was there first and they knew that full well.
Seeing the oil pumps in residential areas is one of my abiding memories when I first visited LA in the 1970s. And the smell of petrochemicals in the air but it was still tinsel town with a aprinkling of Hollywood magic for a visitor from the UK!
YOU.SHOULD.OF.SEEN.IT.IN.THE.20'S....!!!!...VENICE.AND.SANTA.MONICA....TOTALLY.CRAZY.OIL.COMPANY.LANSCAPS.AND.NOTHING.ELSE......THOUSANDS.DIED.OF.CANCER.....NO.HEALTH.ENVIRONMENTAL/BILLS.AT.THAT.TIME...LOLOLOL...SADLY.!!!!!
Oh my God, people have to live next to an oil well, even though nobody told them to. How dare the oil and gas companies allow this to happen...SIKE!
I wish vice would do something on grocery stores in poor areas, I have to drive 20 minutes for good quality healthy food.
Price doesn’t mean quality. Technically anything that passes FDA testing is high quality food. “Organic, all natural, etc” is a marketing scam.
You expect grocery or any other type of story to run at a loss? Guess what, there ain't no stores because the local people steal them blind.
The oilfields and pump jacks (oil well pumps) were operating far before most of the residential houses were built. So LA City & County Planners, who are neatly tucked in the back pockets of land Developers, put those customers who bought houses which in turn put the homeowners at risk for building houses that encircle oil production facilities - they didn't know what they were doing? (continued)
And, instead of fingering the corrupt Planners with six digit incomes, the greedy Developers with 7-8 digit incomes and the stupid renters and homeowners with 1 digit IQ who more than likely saw the oil wells prior to signing papers, logic says 'kill the oil company'. Am I in love with big oil? Hell no I'm not. But lets put the shoe on the correct foot.
The exact same scenario happened with the dairy farms, first in Artesia, then Chino (both in the LA region). In both cases the late coming, shit-for-brains home owners said the dairies smelled bad (no shit..., after 10 years of living there you finally discovered your nose?); again, in both cases the farmers were forced to move their entire farm.
As a lifelong Californian whose preparing to leave, I know too well that a person was correct in saying "California is like a box of granola - if they're not a fruit or a nut, they're a flake"; or like one of those progressive home buyers that needs someone to do their thinking for them. And why doesn't that sweet environmental youth ask her parent(s) "Why did we get a house that's next an oil well?"
I must already be dead because I don't feel sick living so close to the Inglewood oil fields.
+One7 goldenera There's a reason oil field workers get paid so much, it's pretty dangerous working near a rig with all of the Chems and fumes that come up such as h2s which is very dangerous even in small doses. I'm quite surprised they haven't relocated any of the people near the well!
Oh? You personally didn't get sick?
Shut it down everyone, this one particular person didn't get sick. Therefore, it must be a sham. :/
***** LA ain't that bad minus the traffic, traffic to get to the traffic, drought, smog, living expense and homeless population (from my perspective).
Funny, these images at the intro are all in long beach
Close but that's the city of signal hill which is surrounded by long beach on all four sides.
who is there first? oil rig or residence??
+Eddie Shin The oil fields have been there for over 100 years.
how about the residents? they moved beside the oil rig and now complain?
+Eddie Shin that's exactly what they did. No worries, the God Emperor will relocate them to Mexico. #Trump2016
+Eddie Shin And rental rates outside that area are what? And common wages of that population? Seems probable that they can't afford to live elsewhere.
Blame sprawl for the existence of the residences, but don't blame the residents.
It's there or homeless.
Poverty's a Bitch.
Oil
The AQMD is actually the correct regulatory agency to contact with these issues. It’s under their jurisdiction.
If you have issues with your local air (I.e. businesses emitting smoke that makes you feel dizzy or nauseous), please contact the AQMD and report local businesses. It’s a valid means of addressing this issue.
I live here in Lomita California every time I pass by that refinery at Wilmington you get a strong smell of crude oil
The thought that the hydrocarbons emissions from an active well site are more damaging than LA's smog is absolutely comical
All this seems really forced. Making it much bigger of a problem than what it really is.
+Josh g It's about regulating fucking emissions you dipshits. Do you remember the good old acid rain years? Do you remember the smell of paper mils? Have you ever played a park by something like this and kept smelling that smell then get a headache? These people aren't delusional, nor should they be placed in the proximity of oil rigs.
People are fucking stupid.
+Josh g Yeah, long time exposition to paraffine and benzene vapours is fun.
Go away, your stupidity sickens me.
+Buggy The Clown such hostility SJW
+Josh g thanks, /b/.
+Buggy The Clown Oh shit dude you might get exposed to somthing that comes FROM THE FUCKING GROUND
In less than 10 minutes, someone just had to connect an environmental issue to racism.
Did you not even see the reason why it was linked, or did you just watch the video to criticize it there is a serious race issue in America, wake up plz
+Miroslav Georgiev It's a fair conclusion. Black/Hispanic neighbourhoods' voices don't have the same weight as a white neighborhood. If you don't think racism exists, like it suddenly disappeared when only ~50 years ago racism was the law, you're the delusional one. I say this as a proud white guy.
+Brian Smith Shut up with your white guilt. The biggest reason why those communities don't have much of a say is annoying idiots like you who don't know anything about life outside of a classroom taking away their voices, then nobody else gives a shit.
Well that's liberals for you, take an issue related to illness and environmental hazards, and turn it into "institutionalized racism" XD.
Not racism To the poor. you can be white and in that area and still face the same problems just like other poor white areas that have environmental problems
Thats the 110 South towards San Pedro not Long Beach
This is pretty overblown I'm unimpressed vice.
the leak in porter ranch was pretty bad. it was not over exaggerated
ImageSounds natural gas won't hurt you
do you want to move in next door?
silentrocker33 considering I was a control room operator in the single biggest consumer of natural gas east of the Mississippi and regularly worked 100+ hourweeks...I guess I did
The people that these 'residents' should be going after are the land developers and the 'politicians' that allow the land developers to build near an oil development. Besides, as the man said, we NEED the oil to be able to carry on our mundane lives.
oh look it's my FAV vice correspondent. Y'ALL PLEASE use him more thank you
The lady at 9:50...I'm going to have to argue that it is not institutional racism that drives politicians to relocate schools etc in richer areas such as Porter Ranch while not dealing with similar problems in South LA. Don't you think that it is much more likely that it is simply classism? Rich people have the money and clout to make their voices heard while unfortunately poor communities are often neglected, regardless of skin color.
I work next to a refinery Los Angeles and i swear its causing everyone hair to thin out, even 20 something year old women.
+4money110 That's called meth bud
JesusTouchedMyJunk never smoked meth in my life
1. Zoning should've prevented this from the get-go. But then people would complain about governmental control of business and real estate.
2. Other countries have these issues and no one here complains. If we're going to enjoy oil, we should bear the burden as well.
The wells were there first. So if you are so concerned, move! Quite whining !
my grandmother went blind due to the pollution in LA, when she was in her 20s. her husband moved her to Indianapolis and her sight came back.
"do you sense that smell"
"no"
"I see you have red liquid in your hands?"
"I don't see any blood in my hands, my hands are clean"
"you just said blood?"
"no, I didn't say anything"
....
.....
All these people saying to just move houses haven't realized that most of these oil rigs are in low income areas and that these people can't afford to just move
The city is built on an oil field. So many people that cry about oil are the biggest consumers of it and have no idea how dependent they are on it.
I grew up in Wilmington and remember these pumps everywhere. We used to ride our bikes in the lots.
OK, YOU WANT TO END THE OIL COMPANYS, STOP PUTTING GAS IN YOUR CAR, AND STAR USING HORSES, STOP BUYING PHONES TABLESTS COMPUTERS CARS AND JUST BE NAKED.
best comment here.
Um, no. You can drive an electric car and make the electricity using the sun or wind. Burning oil is just fucking stupid, if anything we need it for chemistry.
+SOCIALISM SOCIALIST Age old argument that doesn't make sense, no one's trying to be sanctimonious about it. We're not going to make the transition overnight. We don't need to blame ourselves for living our lives. We don't need to forsake all fossil-fuel usage tomorrow. We need to put one foot in front of the other toward a clean energy future. This is an echo of the fossil-fuel industry's attempts to get everyone to blame themselves... That's exactly the fossil-fuel industry's game-to make us internalize that weak point of view. Keep in mind that the Northern soldiers during the American Civil War wore clothes made with cotton picked by slaves.
+Paul Hendrix AND WHERE DO YOU THINK THE PLASTIC FOR COVERING WIRES OR MAKING CARS COMES FROM?
Paul Hendrix Energy cells are made out of very toxic chemicals. Btw, nearly all electricity that you use for your smug lifestyle is made out of cole. which is twice as polutional as oil.
I love the oil field drill baby drill
thanks for doing a story about this, I was in Long Beach a few ago visiting from NC, and there was one of those drills near a Starbucks! I was like "whoaaa?!"
I'm gonna live right next to a rig and then complain and blame the government for allowing me to live next to a rig.
Don't buy a house next to an oil rig.
they don't have brains to process that suggestion. they just want to blame anybody for their suffering.
Some of these neighborhoods existed before the oil sites. Don't build an oil site next to a neighborhood.
That shit prolly went cheap
Excatly what im thinking
It's called a oil rig, and it does nothing to you. The problem is your over populated.
the girl at the beginning was so broken hearted but I'm bet she still hopped in her car afterwards to get home or to work
yeah because USA cities are extremely car-centered, you don't have much of a choice
OIL PATCH NATION! THEM OIL WELLS AINT GOING NOWHERE ⚒
I stayed in Brea, CA and found a little oil museum there that explained the history of oil drilling in the area. Pretty ordinary coming from Texas, but I didn’t realize how big of an oil drilling area Southern California is.
VICE News visited Los Angeles, California to investigate how carcinogenic fumes from urban oil drilling are affecting local communities.
Read "This Could Be One of the Greatest Hurdles for Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US" - bit.ly/1TvlK1J
+VICE News This video reminds me a lot of people who freak out when there is a mosque near there house, because WHAT IF TERRORISM cant prove anything but TERRORISM, lol I laugh so i don't cry.
+wild50gunner what hahaha
+Alan Rivas I find ignorant fear mongering funny
You guys should've checked out THUMBS island . It's right in front of your face off the coast of long beach!
This is the most biased report I seen to date from Vice news you did not say how the tax money from the oil industry there is benefiting the people of Los Angeles. you did not say how oil fields that were recently established have to abide by strict environmental regulations. also I think there's something wrong with your cameras because I actually live in this town and it doesn't look as Bleak as you make it look. the places that you videotaped have more color than that it's almost like you intentionally lowered the color in the video. as for denying the requests for interviews they probably denied your request for interviews because they know that you have an environmental agenda in the city of Los Angeles does not talk to news organizations that try to put words in their mouth.
point is I grew up here and I have never smelled a single bit of tar from any of these sites. did you bother to interview people who say that they live here and have never been bothered once or did you handpick out of probably 20 interviews 5 that made it look the most dramatic. I used to depend on this news channel for information but recently you seem to be turning more and more like Fox News. your sources are hand-picked your interviews are altered and you even add sad dramatic music to the end of your news report to pull heartstrings that there must be a serious problem and we must do something I think about the children... another good news agency turned into a gossip rag. I think the National Enquirer or probably has better reporting than you do.
And I dreamed about living in LA, forget that now.
+Edgar Rafael Downtown LA is a shit hole, but most suburbs are nice
even without all the oil stuff it still isn't that great of a place
as a person who lives here it's better that you realize that now. the streets are not paved with gold they are paid with the rotting carcasses of everybody who try to come here to "Make It" don't believe me ask the hooker down the street or the teenage girl that has to make fetish films in order to put food on the table. this is a warning stay where you are don't come to LA.
Why would anyone dream of living in LA or even commiefornia for that matter?
Yes. Stay away. California doesn't need more people from other states fucking up California...
I guess they shouldn't have built houses next to oil wells. I don't know why ya'll blame the oil companies, blame the people who built residential area's on top of the already existing well sites.
+spankymcflych I agree. Those people don't have to live in LA. They aren't forced to live there. Theres 49 other states with major cities to live in. For some reason people keep moving and wanting to live in LA even though theres no job growth and high cost of living. I lived there for 5 years and its not that great. If they cant stand it then move.
Let empty the whole city ,LA ,and turn it into a major oil well and oil field extraction zone . Bulldoze Paris Hilton house first
maybe we should change the way we have industrialized food to no longer depend on oil for food. duh.
how would it get to the store idiot
+ao You are a special kind of stupid
+Julian Albarran I thought this was sarcasm. but just incase; eliminate stores. there should be food growing in every neighborhood instead of oil rigs. this is an idea.
do i need a permit to grow a cow? and do i keep my pizza plant in the shade or sun
+Cody Deese so you went to public schools right? believe it or not you can actually survive without "growing cows". and if you must eat meat there is definitely enough land for your cow to grow and be butchered, delivered right to you in a vehicle that does not depend on oil. I get it guys. it's extremely difficult to imagine a new process. who likes change? right? anyway, don't worry, my silly idea will not bring about any change to your life. good day.
Thank you +VICE News for this investigative piece! While I'm not sure where I stand on this issue, I can gladly say that I'm more informed. Keep up the investigative journalism!
I've got an idea: don't move next to an industrial site.
I won't live next to a freeway, any kind of industry, electrical substations...have standards for your living arrangements. If you can't afford to live somewhere, don't. It's a biiig country.
As an oil field worker these people have no clue what they’re even talking about
That is why I moved the heck out of southern California.
It's a shame too, i wanted to animate there.
I heard that money doesnt care about human lives.
+rylan short You heard right. Most of the nation is worth more dead than alive. Money wins.
Human lives matter
If you don't like money, stop spending it.
its the parent's fault for having these kids and not working hard enough to get out of these areas. Soooo, if you already live here and you keep having kids shame on you!
and for the record vice. you might want to consider a lot of those wells were there before people were. they knew what they were moving in to or if they didn't it's because they didn't research. either way no tears shed on my end
Vice has turned into a joke.
The "Not in my neighborhood" progressives. LOL.
I consider myself a "not in anyone's neighborhood" progressive.
Well isn't that good of you.
I live in L.A. and there are oil pumps on Aviation blvd and El Segundo Blvd., less than 100 yards from the LAX landing strips.
That background score at the last though... Where is it from? Any ideas?
VICE news : It's all good to try your fancy new cameras shooting in S-LOG
But for f sake, can you color it back to normal ? This looks flat and dead.
+toocoolforu That's what it looks like here in California,. when you look through the sky its grey from polution
I'm glad I live in Oregon.
+Jose Mercado Not if you live near a Spotted Owl....
Same. My mom got us out of L.A...with the quickness
So are we.
I live in Huntington Beach and yes I can confirm I see oil wells everywhere even downtown
The oil wells were there first. Don't get pissy with the oil companies. Take a look at the people who built the houses and the people who moved into them.
I hate the Racism angle that the lady from CBE tries to pull.
One thing they dont tell you is that the oil wells and refineries were there first for decades, its the neighborhoods and schools that moved closer to the refineries and wells.
Why dont they talk to the people of El Segundo about the chevron oil refinery? Why dont they talk to the people of Torrance that live next to the Mobil refinery ? What about the rich people that live in Palos Verdes, above the san pedro refinery? What about the rich people that live on top of Signal Hill and look down at the oil pumps? What about the restaurants in Signal Hill that have oil pumps in their parking lots? What about the people in Beverly Hills that have oil pumps in their neighborhood, on the campus of BH High school.
Are all these people getting sick too ??? Or is it just the poor people of South LA?
The rich people of Porter Ranch were ok with the gas company operating, until it had a MAJOR LEAK, and then the gas co. denied the leak was unhealthy for weeks. It wasnt until the infared aerial video surfaced that showed how bad the leak was, that the gas company could no longer deny it.
They dont tell you how the Exide battery plant was leaking lead into South Central LA and was SHUT DOWN. To keep the people from getting sick.
But none of that can be true, so it has to be about racism.
Bernie should buy everyone a Tesla
For free.
sounds ridiculous, but what he promised to do if he becomes a president is even more ridiculous
I live in Wilmington CA.
The Wilmington oil field is the second largest in the country.
I'm not bitching about the oil industry here but I'm here to set a record. Rent is NOT CHEAP here a beat up 1930's 1 bedroom house is $300,000. A newer house will cost you $800,000.
yo they really went to the starsky and hutch house to interview the homeowners. Hahaha
low income housing? code word for government ( tax payer) funded.
Isn't LA a earthquake zone? What happens to the drilling sites and the empty oil fields after they're done? Won't there be a lot of sinkholes?
typically they plug of cap the well with cement or they use it as a salt water/brine disposal well.
+Aaron Clancy Or as we saw with the natural gas leak, they CLAIM to be ready to do this...but the safety mechanisms failed years ago and are too "costly" to fix" for the company. True story...
Tjacksun Mistakes of the present are made by those who ignore the mistakes of those in the past. Ignorance is your weakness. Cheers!
Use capital letters much? LOL Idiot.
+Tjacksun took them years to fix it. didnt do it without massive public upsetment lol. typical other ppls pain for shareholders profit thing.
The woman who says it breaks her heart to walk her kids by the pump...does it break her heart to walk by all those cars pumping exhaust by her kids? Such a hypocrite.
I live in norwalk/santa fe springs and their is a shitload of these by my home. it's bs!
Hi. Im your neighbor
....But the weather is nice
we have the best weather I love so cal
+Chris Arias can't forget to getchur smog on
+Chris Arias Socal Weather #1 70 degrees everyday
You can drill in a city? Wow ... glad I don;t live in the States.
+Eusunt Dac Those drills were there long before the city came around.
The city of Los Angeles was founded in 1542. I didn't know they were drilling for oil in the 1400s
+Eusunt Dac before it became
Popilar
+tonyfalca How colorful. It was indeed founded long before oil drilling. However. Urban sprawl. Which a concept you don't rightly grasp. Impeded on these sites that were in the middle of the desert when they were first drilled.
ohiopower that's funny because that's not what you said in your first comment
What it sounds like to me is that these people are moving next to active oil rigs and then demanding they move the oil rigs. They shouldn't have moved there.
Does anyone know the name of the music starting at 18:10?
you are literally opening a hole in the ground and exposing material that has been trapped in there for MILLIONS of years - -- - - I'm sure they were trapped for a good reason. and if the old man believed that the oil fields are harmless, he would ACTUALLY LIVE near one - -- - but he dones't
+Youseff A Yeah and they complain about taxes and want subsidies! Did a freaking hole in the ground and start counting trillions of dollars.. The poor oil companies boo hoo.
+Youseff A Yeah, millions of years ago the atmosphere was toxic, we have carbon neutral solutions now, carbon neutral gasification is a good idea that we could be making more use of and that is only one option.
Niki Wong is attractive
+Infinite
but her voice is grating like a teenybopper valley girl
you really can't take here seriously with that voice
sounds like a typical LA hipster bitch
***** I need to get out of Atlanta then haha
No oil. No LA.
so the rigs' have been always in LA, people willingly moved next to them, and now they want the rigs out?
people are amazing
+rodferro sometimes that's all you can afford. not everyone can live in the hills.
quick question why did people dislike this video? im a bit confused
because this problem is adressed as much much worse than it is. I.E: its not even a big deal. its just some oil fields that you can see, and opposed to the millions of other oil fields in the U.S this one is bad for the environment because they can see it. much ado about nothing, people have lived next to those oil fields all their lives and nothing happened.
now that makes more sense. you see i live in New Zealand and its a wonderful country. so the perspective is a lot different. cheers mate
In Latvia there are:
1.) city planning - industrial zone and residential zone are seperate. This could not happen here.
2.) There is public disscussion about city planning and citizens decides what zones will be placed.
3.) If in residential zone one would like to buil commercial object like shop - one would needed to get approval from everyone around his potential object that no one is against it. Either such constrution is not allowed.
So I dont understand how can this is not working in L.A.
When I was a kid in the 1960s in Orange County, blobs of oil would come up in our mud puddles we played in. I am 70 years old now and have no ill effects from playing in the goo. Mom did get mad however about the oil stains on our jeans.
What city
@@kev7co Near Brea.