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Published On: Jan 11, 2006 04:21 PM
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Published On: Jan 11, 2006 04:21 PM
Sierra Club Sponsors LNG Event in Oxnard
Sierra Club's Hands Along
the Pipeline Event Educates Public Regarding LNG Threat in Ventura
County
“Nearly 300 people were on hand at the Sierra Club's Hands Along the Pipeline protest. They began lining the street in front of Pacifica High School at 600 E. Gonzales Road about 10 a.m.”
-Ventura County Star - Sunday, May 15, 2005
On Saturday, May 14th Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places held an Earth Week event to protest the Liquefied Natural Gas terminals proposed off Ventura County’s coast.
One TV station, two English language newspapers and two Latino papers covered the event, as 300 people joined hands to protest the LNG tankers, terminals and high-pressure gas pipelines that are proposed to run through communities, residential neighborhoods, business areas, alongside schools and adjacent to hospitals in Ventura County.
Santa Barbara’s KEYT-TV, the Ventura County Star, the Tri County Sentry, Buenos Dias, and Vida - the primary Latino paper in the County - all attended our event, interviewed our speakers and Sierra Club leaders and either ran stories or plan to run stories on the event.
Sierra Club also received preview coverage from KCLU, the Ventura County NPR station and a great article about our lead-up neighborhood walking program ran in the Ventura County Reporter.
The event was showed that diverse working class communities of Ventura County are united against unneeded and dangerous LNG. To that end we invited our allies from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), El Concilio Del Condado de Ventura, and the Central Coast Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) as well as local elected officials to make comments and join hands with Sierra Club members.
At the event, Sierra Club repeated the successful “Terminate LNG” photo-message booth and had 140 concerned community members take their photo next to a standing cardboard cutout of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from his previous role of the Terminator. In the photo, activists held up a sign which read “Governor, Please Terminate LNG.” The photos were then attached to hand-written messages to the governor, which we will deliver on a future trip to Sacramento. 193 brand new activists signed petitions to stop LNG and then everyone joined hands along one of the proposed pipeline routes.
HANDS ALONG THE PIPELINE
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Ventura County Reporter
May 12, 2005
Activists ready ranks against LNG
Protestors plan to join hands in Oxnard
by Stacey Wiebe
It may look like “Hands Across America” but will be something more like “Hands Across a Possible Future Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline” on Saturday, when residents from at least three counties are expected to turn out in Oxnard in protest two LNG projects on Oxnard’s coastal horizon...
Smith (Chair of Los Padres Chapter LNG Task Force) insists there is a need for evidentiary hearings on the nature and risks of LNG—as well as the big picture about energy in California and the nation at large—before anyone can be sure that LNG is the best possible choice. “The thing that really alarmed me is that we (members of the Sierra Club) went for a walk through a community near Pacifica High School and probably 95 percent of the people we talked to have never thought about LNG—or even heard much about it,” Smith said.
Along with eight other members of the Los Padres chapter, Smith recently descended on said neighborhood, and said he came away with the realization that very few residents in the roughly 500 homes they approached knew that an LNG project could affect their neighborhood...
Ventura County Star
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Oxnard demonstrators say natural gas platforms would be dangerous
By Brandon Mackey
Concerned citizens stood with city officials and community activists in Oxnard Saturday morning, holding hands to protest the proposed location of liquefied natural gas platforms off Ventura County's coast.
Nearly 300 people were on hand at the Sierra Club's Hands Along the Pipeline protest. They began lining the street in front of Pacifica High School at 600 E. Gonzales Road about 10 a.m…
…"There are so many alternate forms of reusable energy that can be researched," Smith said. "To propose something this dangerous is foolish."
The crowd of protesters had the same zeal as the organizers as many broke off into small discussion groups…
“Nearly 300 people were on hand at the Sierra Club's Hands Along the Pipeline protest. They began lining the street in front of Pacifica High School at 600 E. Gonzales Road about 10 a.m.”
-Ventura County Star - Sunday, May 15, 2005
On Saturday, May 14th Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places held an Earth Week event to protest the Liquefied Natural Gas terminals proposed off Ventura County’s coast.
One TV station, two English language newspapers and two Latino papers covered the event, as 300 people joined hands to protest the LNG tankers, terminals and high-pressure gas pipelines that are proposed to run through communities, residential neighborhoods, business areas, alongside schools and adjacent to hospitals in Ventura County.
Santa Barbara’s KEYT-TV, the Ventura County Star, the Tri County Sentry, Buenos Dias, and Vida - the primary Latino paper in the County - all attended our event, interviewed our speakers and Sierra Club leaders and either ran stories or plan to run stories on the event.
Sierra Club also received preview coverage from KCLU, the Ventura County NPR station and a great article about our lead-up neighborhood walking program ran in the Ventura County Reporter.
The event was showed that diverse working class communities of Ventura County are united against unneeded and dangerous LNG. To that end we invited our allies from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), El Concilio Del Condado de Ventura, and the Central Coast Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) as well as local elected officials to make comments and join hands with Sierra Club members.
At the event, Sierra Club repeated the successful “Terminate LNG” photo-message booth and had 140 concerned community members take their photo next to a standing cardboard cutout of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from his previous role of the Terminator. In the photo, activists held up a sign which read “Governor, Please Terminate LNG.” The photos were then attached to hand-written messages to the governor, which we will deliver on a future trip to Sacramento. 193 brand new activists signed petitions to stop LNG and then everyone joined hands along one of the proposed pipeline routes.
HANDS ALONG THE PIPELINE
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Ventura County Reporter
May 12, 2005
Activists ready ranks against LNG
Protestors plan to join hands in Oxnard
by Stacey Wiebe
It may look like “Hands Across America” but will be something more like “Hands Across a Possible Future Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline” on Saturday, when residents from at least three counties are expected to turn out in Oxnard in protest two LNG projects on Oxnard’s coastal horizon...
Smith (Chair of Los Padres Chapter LNG Task Force) insists there is a need for evidentiary hearings on the nature and risks of LNG—as well as the big picture about energy in California and the nation at large—before anyone can be sure that LNG is the best possible choice. “The thing that really alarmed me is that we (members of the Sierra Club) went for a walk through a community near Pacifica High School and probably 95 percent of the people we talked to have never thought about LNG—or even heard much about it,” Smith said.
Along with eight other members of the Los Padres chapter, Smith recently descended on said neighborhood, and said he came away with the realization that very few residents in the roughly 500 homes they approached knew that an LNG project could affect their neighborhood...
Ventura County Star
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Oxnard demonstrators say natural gas platforms would be dangerous
By Brandon Mackey
Concerned citizens stood with city officials and community activists in Oxnard Saturday morning, holding hands to protest the proposed location of liquefied natural gas platforms off Ventura County's coast.
Nearly 300 people were on hand at the Sierra Club's Hands Along the Pipeline protest. They began lining the street in front of Pacifica High School at 600 E. Gonzales Road about 10 a.m…
…"There are so many alternate forms of reusable energy that can be researched," Smith said. "To propose something this dangerous is foolish."
The crowd of protesters had the same zeal as the organizers as many broke off into small discussion groups…
Posted: Mon - May 16, 2005 at 05:45 PM