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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously on Friday to phase out existing oil and gas wells over the next two decades.
More than a decade of complaints from city residents have led to the vote.
In the shadows of oil and gas production, hundreds of thousands of Angelenos have had to raise their kids, go to work, prepare their meals, and go to neighborhood parks. When oil and gas production stops in Los Angeles, the time has come.
Two engineers with Yorke Engineering, a California-based company that does air quality and environmental compliance review, spoke out against the law. Oil and gas operators will abandon wells if a ban is implemented. The city isunderestimating this. Air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions will increase if they walk away.
According to the review by Impact Sciences, the claims are not credible.
Los Angeles used to be an oil city. It still has a number of productive oilfields, even though many are now played out.
There were over 800 active and over 300 inactive wells in the city in the year. It is possible to bring an inactive well back into production if it has been sealed permanently.
State records show that the Wilmington oil field yielded more than 10 million barrels of oil in 2019.
The majority of the wells in that field are located in the city of Los Angeles. Several clusters of active wells are run by companies like E&B Natural Resources Management Corporation.
The company has invested $400 million in its oil and gas operations, according to the CEO. He said that they would use all available legal resources to protect their investment.
Outside of Los Angeles city limits there are many more wells.
There are studies looking at the effects of pollution from the city's oil and gas wells.
The University of Southern California found that people living near wells in two Los Angeles neighborhoods had higher rates of respiratory problems than people living farther away. According to the U.S. Census, both of those communities are mostly non-white.
The push to ban drilling in the City of Los Angeles is part of a region-wide effort to shut down oil and gas drilling.
The largest oil deposit in the world is located in Los Angeles. Cities all over the world can do it if Los Angeles can do it.
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The amount of Warren Resources CEO and president James A. Watt's statement has been edited. $400 million is not $43 million.
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