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March 16, 2010

Charges of lax oversight as oil firm expands drilling near downtown LA

  • Earlier estimates predicted drilling would end this decade, so funding was secured to create the largest new urban park in the country.
    • By NOAKI SCHWARTZ
    Associated Press Writer

    LOS ANGELES — This sprawling metropolis is built atop one of the richest oil basins in the world. Wells dot the city landscape, some hidden behind hollow building facades much like a Hollywood movie set, or, in the case of Beverly Hills High School, encased in a tower painted with flowers.

    For decades, it had been assumed that one oil field, the historic Inglewood, just minutes from the downtown skyline, would eventually play out, that the nodding pumpjacks would give way to an elaborately planned, two square-mile park.


     
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