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Drilling on land and then slanted under the ocean to the oil fields.
Location for drilling in the middle of the city on an old property.
At 100 per barrel, royalties to the city of 1/2 Billion over estimated 34 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/u...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Drilling on land and then slanted under the ocean to the oil fields.
Location for drilling in the middle of the city on an old property.
At 100 per barrel, royalties to the city of 1/2 Billion over estimated 34 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/u...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — This quaint and quirky seaside community south of Los Angeles has had a conflicted relationship with the oil industry for close to a century. It has variously approved oil drilling, banned it, approved it and prohibited it again. During one yes-on-oil stretch, it contracted with an energy company to put 34 wells on a 1.3-acre city maintenance yard a few blocks from a stretch of beach that normally bustles with surfers and swimmers.
The contract, which could mean hundreds of millions of dollars for the local government, received final approval from the City Council in 1992, but it has been in limbo ever since. A vote to block the drilling would come at an unusual cost: $17.5 million in damages to the energy company, the equivalent of about half the annual general fund budget in this city of almost 20,000 people.