Culver Crest residents Ken Kutcher and Suzanne De Benedittis are featured on The Front Page Online. 

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/…/KutchertoCommissioners-DocumentsNotReadytobeForwarded

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/…/CitizensallGroupPosts31-ChangesonDrillingforCountytoConsider

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/…/ActivistSaysPXPShould-BearaLargerShareoftheBurden

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/…/HowtheCountyShouldProtectResidents-OnceOilDrillingResumesNextMonth

http://www.thefrontpageonline.com/…/KutcherallsLatestMessageCountysAttitude-TowardBaldwinHillsEIRIsaPolicyCall

Some more articles on PXP Oil, quoting members of the Culver Crest Neighborhood Association.

Toxin risk viewed as top concern over new oil wells

By ARIN MIKAILIAN, Staff Writer 24.JUL.08
At a meeting hosted by Los Angeles County officials this month, residents who live in areas surrounding the Baldwin Hills Oil Field said their personal health was the primary concern with respect to future drilling.

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Uncertainty as drilling moratorium expires

By ARIN MIKAILIAN, Staff Writer 10.JUL.08
A group of Culver Crest residents and some of their neighbors from abutting communities have drafted their own community standards district, in the hopes that it will supplant a similar document presented by an oil company seeking to increase its drilling in a nearby oil field.

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Plan to expand oil drilling by 1,000 wells draws health and environmental concerns

BY LEILONI DE GRUY, Staff Writer 26.JUN.08

Residents of several neighborhoods in and around South L.A. express doubt about proposal by firm that has been source of controversy.

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Our vice-president Mark Salkin is quoted in this story about the Baldwin Hills Oil fields. There is also some good background on how oil is extracted from the ground and lists some of the toxic byproducts.
 

Oil companies are revisiting formerly abandoned drill sites forsaken years ago as being unprofitable. This is not surprising considering the recent skyrocketing gasoline prices and oil costs per barrel.

Read the rest of the Our Weekly article by Gregg Reese

CCNA board advisor  John Kuechle and board member Suzanne De Benedittis were interviewed during the press conference by the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance on the release of their own Community Standards District document (that competes with the one submitted by PXP Oil).

 

(Note that there is a short advertisement at the head of the clip.)

Here is the press release that spurred on this coverage:

And here is a statement by State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas regarding this CSD: 

An article in the Culver City edition of The Wave about PXP oil, the drilling moratorium, and the competing CSD authored by Ken Kutcher and John Kuechle.

 

Our own Ken Kutcher and John Kuechle were interviewed by Ari Noonan of the The Front Page Online Culver City news blog about the Draft EIR, Ken’s competing CSD document, and the impact of living next to the largest urban oil field in the U.S.

 

Part 1: Will the Voices of Crest Residents and Their Neighbors Be Heard Before PXP Begins Drilling

Part 2: Creating Awareness About the Risks Confronting Residents Near the Oil Drilling Field

Part 3: Gaseous Wakeup Call at 2 in the Morning Was Catalyst for Crest Residents

Part 4: Crest Residents Have a Problem with Supposedly Impartial PXP Drafting Own Regulations

Part 5: For First Community Meeting Crest Residents Will Enter Apprehensively

From KNX1070 NewsRadio:

A big oil company plans to sink a thousand new wells below Baldwin Hills. That has sparked big sparked big safety concerns. KNX 1070’s Michael Linder has an exclusive series of special reports.

Included in this 4 part series are interviews of our own John Kuechle and Culver City Mayor Scott Malsin.  The interviewer, Michael Linder, also has a nice blog about these reports.

Yesterday, our CCNA Vice President Mark Salkin appeared on KCRW’s “Which Way L.A.” program, and talked about PXP Oil vis-a-vis our neighborhood. Also featured on the program was Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, our County Supervisor. You can download the podcast and listen for yourself!