Pacific Palisades Residents Associations, Inc.
PO Box 917
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
www.pprainc.org
info@pprainc.org

Via email:

Governor of the State of California
Representatives for the State of California
Representatives for the City of Los Angeles

Dear Governor and Representatives

Pacific Palisades Residents Association is a community wide volunteer organization incorporated in 1958 whose goals are to preserve the quality of life in the Los Angeles Basin, the Coastal Zone and to protect recreational coastal and mountain resources.

PPRA strongly opposes the ‘OceanWay Secure Energy Project’ proposed by Woodside Natural Gas. We have 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 partners in a coalition of concerned individuals, organizations and public officials, entitled No Way on OceanWay (www.nowayonoceanway.org).

We ask that you review the pertinent facts without delay and conclude, as many others already have, that there is nothing “secure” about this proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project. It offers no benefit to Los Angeles or the State of California.

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 dump tons of air pollution that our coastal communities will be directly exposed to and will ultimately harm all of Los Angeles. Inland communities (including Inglewood and Watts), as well as the 21 schools 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 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 additionally 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.

Our domestic natural gas supplies are at a 20 year supply, 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.

PPRA urges you to protect our precious coast and thousands of innocent people, your constituents. Please publicly oppose this ill-conceived project.

Sincerely,

barbara kohn
president
pacific palisades residents association

Cc: infor@pprainc.org, ckraft@smbaykeeper.org, Norman Kulla <norman.kulla@lacity.org>, BSaltsman@bos.lacounty.gov, lkrop@edcnet.org, fgkrisiloff@bos.lacounty.gov, Laurie.Newman@SEN.CA.GOV, franpavley@yahoo.com, Lisa.Pinto@mail.house.gov, pegclif@aol.com, editor@palipost.com