19 Fatalities, 60 Injuries & $230M in Property Damage Per Year from Pipeline Accidents

Fatalities, Injuries & Property Damage Per Year from Pipeline Accidents 

Who wants an oil and gas pipeline near their home? Not me and hopefully our neighbors don't either.

Pipelines average 19 fatalities and 60 injuries every year in the US.  Pipelines incidents in the US produce on average $230,000,000 worth of property damage.  A pipeline does not belong in Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach or Torrance going to Exxon Mobile Refinery.  See these oil and gas pipeline incident statistics here.  

Oil Pipeline through Redondo Beach to Torrance Exxon?

Hermosa Beach Pipeline to Exxon Torrance Through Redondo Beach

I guess Stop Oil Hermosa Beach just enlisted the help of 200,000 more people from Redondo Beach and Torrance who could feel the impacts of the proposed oil project.

Of course this was one of the last document posted on the Hermosa Beach E&B website.  Why would safety, noise or toxic air quality concern anyone from an oil company because they say everything is sooooooo safe?  E&B has minimized the safety impacts of this project and we plan to expose every last detail of facts they leave out.  Of course all the documents are posted as PDF and not searchable.  Its only 1000 pages to read.  However, feel free to start reading the noise impact study here.

E&B seems quite proud of their aesthetic renderings for the proposed drilling site.  However, there is no way to draw the winds or the toxic air we are going to be breathing.  I don't think anyone really cares how it looks when toxic air could be blown downwind to thousands. 

Oil Companies Do NOT have to Disclose Fracking Sites in CA

Fracking is Still Highly Unregulated in California
See the Fracking Health Dangers of Gas Here


Baldwin Hills Oil Sink Hole in 1963 See (6 min 25 seconds)
Pressurized Oil Extraction Wells Caused This

Hydraulic Fracking Diagram

California Fracking Unregulated

E&B Oil Reveals Hydraulic Pumping Will Be Used

E&B further explains their hydraulic fracking technique using 27 oil wells and 3 water injection wells. The drilling rig will be 87 feet tall and will be temporarily on site for four months before it is removed. During that four month period three exploratory wells and one water injection well will be drilled. This will allow us to analyze the quality, along with the rate and flow, and other important factors of the produced oil, gas and water.

Pressurized Hydraulic Oil Extraction Wells Caused This
Redondo Beach Wins $2.5M Law Suit From Oil Companies in 1997

Eight oil companies named in the lawsuit were required to replace the oil they had taken with pressurized water. He said that because they did not, the surface under the water sank up to four feet in some areas. The subsidence led the breakwater to sink four feet below its designed height of 22 feet, Goddard said, and caused storm-generated waves to crash over the protective wall. He said the storm caused more than $8 million in damage to local businesses, a cost absorbed by the city. Several major oil companies were named in the suit, including Texaco, Exxon, Trident and Phillips Petroleum, Goddard said.