The Newspaper of the San Francisco Bay Chapter
May - June 2007
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LNG terminal defeated!
On April 9, after a 13-hour hearing, the State Lands Commission voted 2 - 1 to deny BHP Billiton's dirty and dangerous floating Liquefied Natural Gas terminal proposed to be built off the coast of Oxnard and Malibu. Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi and state Controller John Chiang were the two votes against the project. Three days later, the California Coastal Commission too voted against the project. We believe that the project is now dead.
Many thanks to the more than 2,000 Sierra Club members and other Southern California residents who put on blue "Terminate the Terminal" tee shirts to attend the Lands Commission hearing, to the 500 who attended the Coastal Commission's, and to all the folks who sent letters and post cards.
For three years, the Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places Campaign had worked to stop the terminal and its tankers, which would have pumped out more than 200 tons of smog-producing air pollution every year, and posed grave threats to migrating whales and dolphins.
Visit the Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places web site.
© 2007 San Francisco Sierra Club Yodeler