I guess the joke is on us and the City can get away doing whatever they want and make up their own rules. When will the lies, corruption and deception of the truth stop in Hermosa Beach? This drilling started at 8am on May 7 at the Hermosa Beach City Yard.
Neighbors were not notified and the City did not have a permit to do this according to sources who asked City Manage Tom Bakaly. Is this grounds to fire a City Manager for ignoring this huge issue? See this incident at the last City Council meeting where Tom Bakaly refuses to publish a letter. Is Mr. Bakaly really working for the people or is he also now working for E&B? Why is Mr. Bakaly hiring an outside consultant to moderate / facilitate a town hall meeting? Many questions need answers and this is not leadership.
Neighbors were not notified and the City did not have a permit to do this according to sources who asked City Manage Tom Bakaly. Is this grounds to fire a City Manager for ignoring this huge issue? See this incident at the last City Council meeting where Tom Bakaly refuses to publish a letter. Is Mr. Bakaly really working for the people or is he also now working for E&B? Why is Mr. Bakaly hiring an outside consultant to moderate / facilitate a town hall meeting? Many questions need answers and this is not leadership.
City of Hermosa Beach Drilling Without a Permit?
Here is the Hermosa Beach drilling ordinance right from their web site. The drilling, boring or otherwise sinking of an oil or gas well, or oil or gas wells, or the maintenance, pumping or operation of any oil well or oil wells or gas well or gas wells in the city is declared to be a nuisance and is declared to be unlawful. It is unlawful for any person to drill, bore or otherwise sink or maintain, pump or operate or cause to be drilled, bored or otherwise sunk, or maintained, pumped or operated, or to aid in the drilling, boring or otherwise sinking, or maintaining, pumping or operating of any gas or oil well or wells for the purpose of procuring oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances within any portion of the city. It is unlawful for any person to commence the construction or to construct or maintain any derrick, or any oil well apparatus in the city for the purpose of drilling for or maintaining any oil or gas well in the city; except, however, the oil wells now constructed or under construction or in actual operation in the city. (Ord. 95-1139 § 2, 1995; prior code § 21-10)
