MEDIA RELEASE

Contact:
David Noflin, Carson Connected, Co-Founder
carsoncaconnected.org
310 885-5860
dnoflin@carsoncaconnected

Carson Connected calls on Mayor and Council to Protect the City of Carson by placing a permanent ban on all new oil drilling.

Carson, CA – Faced with the threat of oil drilling in Carson, and with the loss of the protection of placing a moratorium on all types of drilling. Community leaders, organizations and residents stand together calling on Mayor Jim Dear, and the City Council to protect the City of Carson and its residents from the dangers and health hazards of oil drilling within residential and populated areas and place a permanent ban on all new oil drilling in the City of Carson.

Drilling in populated areas like Carson is associated with air pollution and water contamination, earthquakes and negative human health impacts, including birth defects and cancer. While communities around the state and the nation work to ban drilling in populated areas, Carson is updating its oil and gas land use laws to allow drilling within its city limits. Less than a mile from residential communities and Cal State University Dominguez Hills was a plan to operate 200 oil wells.

“The City of Carson was created in 1968 when thousands of residents came together to stopping the dumping on and contamination of our communities. Allowing oil drilling back into our city would go against everything those people worked so hard for and everything the residents have spent the last 3+ years fighting for,” said Lori Noflin Co-founder of Carson Connected

About Carson Connected
Carson Connected is an organization of volunteers from Carson, California and surrounding areas dedicated to nurturing our communities. Established in September 2010, our primary purpose is enlightening, educating, and unlocking the potential of the people in our communities. We actively serve and provide services that contribute to the health and vitality of the community.