To the editor:
The meeting on fracking Tuesday, June 12, at 7 p.m. in City Hall held by the State of California could easily be the most important event ever conducted in Culver City.
Considering that fracking under Culver City has the potential to damage our homes and other local buildings, considering that fracking has been shown to increase the chances of a local earthquake, considering that fracking uses numerous toxins; considering that fracking would shoot massive amounts of toxic water at enormous pressure horizontally under Culver City, considering the fracking would create significant vibration, considering the toxic water–further toxified with oil–would have to be stored somewhere nearby, considering that the chemicals are expected to make the water under our city and elsewhere toxic, I intend to ask questions at that meeting. I want to learn why the giant oil company PXP is planning to do this dangerous work here or anywhere, and why the State of California thinks this is perfectly fine.
For those who don’t know, fracking is actually hydraulic fracturing a means of extracting oil from the ground.
Rebecca Rona-Tuttle