Urban Oil in Southern California

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Oil is as much a part of Southern California history as sunshine and citrus groves. Downtown LA is pockmarked with oil wells capped before they ran dry. In Long Beach and Signal Hill, there were forests of derricks and they’re still pumping in Seal Beach, Santa Fe Springs and Beverly Hills. Tonight: is there an oil well coming near you?

Photo by David McNew/Getty Images, CULVER CITY, CA: oil rigs extract petroleum as the price of crude oil rises.

Guests:

• William Deverell: Prof of History at USC, Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
• Greg Brown: Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Breitburn Oil Corporation
• Mark Salkin: Vice President, Culver Crest Neighborhood Association
• Yvone Brathwaite Burke: Los Angeles County Supervisor

Links:

• Baldwin Hills Community Standards District and Environmental Impact Report

Host

Warren Olney

Considered the dean of Southern California broadcast journalists, Warren tackles the issues Southern Californians care about. Expanding that concept, To the Point deals with issues of national concern and is on air in most major metropolitan markets across the country. On any day, you’ll hear a fast-paced, news-based talk show featuring multiple perspectives on a single major issue, with Newsmaker and Reporters Notebook features, as well. 

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Produced by

Karen Radziner, Dan Konecky

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Underwriters

Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.