LNG Plant Offshore at Lax
Recently PPRA joined with other prominent
opponents, including U.S. Representative Jane
Harman, Los Angeles City Councilman Bill
Rosendahl, the Cities of Santa Monica and Malibu,
as a partner in a coalition of concerned individuals,
organizations and public officials, entitled No Way
on OceanWay.
The partner coalition strongly opposes the ‘OceanWay
Secure Energy Project’ proposed by Woodside Natural
Gas, whose parent corporation is an Australian concern.
The project, located 27 miles off of LAX and 21 miles
from Pt. Dume, threatens our coastal wildlife, coastal
residents and the many recreational users of our coast from
throughout the greater Los Angeles area. It will deposit
tons of air pollution that our coastal communities will
be directly exposed to and will ultimately harm all of Los
Angeles. Ships fourteen stories high and three football fields
long will sit semi-permanently in Santa Monica Bay. Inland
communities, including Inglewood and Watts, as well as
21 schools, including Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa
Monica Canyon, located on or near the proposed inland
pipeline route, will also suffer: they will be subject to major
inconvenience and disruption due to pipeline construction
as well as increased risk of harmful pipeline leaks (according
to the Office of Public Safety, Los Angeles has the record of
the most oil and gas pipeline leaks of any city in the nation).
The project proposes bringing the pipeline to a site adjacent
to LAX and close to thousands of residents living nearby in
El Segundo and Westchester and with the possibility for a
pipeline connection to existing pipelines in Santa Monica
Canyon, Pacific Palisades and Brentwood as well as utilizing
the Southern California Gas Company pipeline system.
Additionally, the project presents serious safety concerns
for thousands of Los Angeles residents, as the underwater
and onshore pipelines would be constructed across
several fault-lines, with leaks and even dangerous
explosions a potential result of seismic activity.
Congresswoman Jane Harman, chair of the House
Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and
Terrorism Risk Assessment, says that the project will make
an already existing target all the more attractive to terrorists.
Our domestic natural gas supplies are at a 20 year high,
and available resources are sufficient for our energy needs
for decades. Imported LNG is not clean energy. Several
studies indicate that over its lifecycle, imported LNG is
nearly as dirty as coal and emits 25% more greenhouse
gases than domestically produced natural gas. We cannot
continue to delay the urgent need to begin to turn to
non-fossil, renewable energies and user efficiency to solve
our future energy needs — a safer and saner alternative.
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