LA residents are feeling the heat as urban oil fields take a toll on health and air quality.
www.dw.com
Many lifelong residents of Los Angeles have health impacts from growing up close to oil extraction. Now, the city is trying to close down the worst offenders, but it's an enormous task.

  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    It should also be noted that the area has so much underground petroleum that it leaks out of the streets along the Wilshire corridor, especially near the La Brea Tar Pits.

  • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    This got me thinking. I move every 4-8 years and adapt to the new living conditions. I suspect this hedges against any unknown issues my living conditions have that I’m unaware of. For example, I never filtered my water until I moved someplace where it was necessary and I just kept the habit. Maybe I should have been filtering water my entire life but moving forced me to create this habit.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I don’t know if it’s some bias since I just read what it’s about, but that building looks shady as fuck. The kind of place I’d walk around and wonder if there’s some money laundering happening in there.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Is this more like Poor LA residents/Poor neighborhoods?

    Because this screams lawsuits, especially in LA which is very big on lawsuits for personal health.

    • Sinthesis@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The oil derricks were there before it was heavily populated. If I remember right, you could scrape oil off the top of the ground when people first arrived. I guess what I’m trying to say is; the derricks werent built in the poor neighborhoods, the poor neighborhoods were built near the former well sites after they went dry…cheap land. Cover the last few producing wells, build some post-WWII boomer housing and the rest is history.

      https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/oil-derricks-california-old-photos/

  • JustPlainDave@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    If you watch old movies made in LA you see a lot of wells and I remember wondering what happened to them the first time I went to LA.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    So, let me be sure that I understand… it’s illegal for me to build an addition to my home, but this is legal?

    At least the USA is consistent, I guess.

  • Fredselfish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    We have this problem in Oklahoma the difference here is they built whole suburbs on top of the abandoned wells then move families into them. Worse when they don’t know how many of these wells there are but the numbers are in the high 100,000s.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Kept trying to get me to download their app. Had to do a workaround just to get to see the image.
      Here it is below, so no one else has to deal with this shit.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Here it is below, so no one else has to deal with this shit.

        The whole “I had to do something and I didn’t want to, so let me help y’all do it easier” mentality a lot of folk have here is great. I like your attitude.

  • susieq0044@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Actually, my husband and I live on top of one of those! We discovered this while we were renovating our downstairs bathroom, suddenly this black liquid started to bubble up. We now store it in big drums and use it to heat the dishwashing water and the house, and to drive the car. It may also explain the neck breaking migraines that we both have suffered from over the last 15 years, yet we remain hush-hush about our discovery, because we are in Dire Straits (economically, not the pop band). We would still vote Trump should he run again.