'Public' 'Protection' - Privileged Profiteering: Oil in Whittier & more

Adding to my previously expressed suspicions on the safety of the natural environment in 'public' (as meaning, government) ownership, I recently saw brochures in the Whittier Public Library and signs on homeowners' property protesting a city council plan to open protected land in the Whittier Hills (the city's part of the Puente Hills, and, apparently, at least underground, some unincorporated county land usually called or thought of as 'Whittier') to drilling for petroleum by Matrix Oil Corporation. It has been suggested that no competitive bidding was involved. La junta hopes the city's cut - numbers such as 30% royalty and/or one fifth of the day's barrel-load take have been mentioned - would end its financial crisis. But the turnover of the hills to the protection of the city was particularly that there should be no new oil exploration.


Here's where you can get further info:

http://www.whittierhillsoilwatch.org/

http://us.forestle.org/en/search.php?q="drilling%20for%20oil"%20Whittier%20Matrix ~of which these are especially good:

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_8553946  ~Whittier Ponders Drilling for Oil (Whittier Daily News)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124096173407165939.html  ~The Derrick Next Door: Suburb Explores a Crude Solution to Its Budget Woes (Wall Street Journal)

http://www.topix.com/business/oil-gas

I also went deeper in studying the very curious history of gummint protecting humans and other creatures in the Channel Islands of California (see earlier LAND GRAB post, especially the Santa Rosa Island links), and strongly suggest you go to and then to the articles on the individual islands. (God bless you, messrs Wrigley and Stanton!)~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California

And then, there's this local nasanasty, from the same roots that once told us about Tang being better for you than orange juice or other natural stuff, and that the Peaceful Atom / nuclear fission and Better Things Through Chemistry were the salvation of the world!

 Searching "complaints about Downey" (Forestle about 55 pages) wondering if I cold find anyone else complaining about the way they lock of the river bikepaths, and suspicious things on their side of those paths, n'stuff, got to these:  "Downey Flu" - Forestle about 252.  Especially:

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/02/business/fi-ct-downey2
=coff coff!!=