LNG facility proposed in Santa Monica Bay.

Hello Friends of our SM Bay and environment

...I sent this to the PPRA and PP Community Council and City Councilman Bill Rosendahl. I think it is a very important, possibly dire situation, if this project is allowed to progress. Please share with concerned friends. This should not be a "secret". We need public input.

Maureen Cruise

Dear Community Leaders, City Councilman and Representatives,

Sept. 26th, I attended a public hearing on the issues to be considered for the scoping process regarding the construction of a LNG facility proposed to be built in our Santa Monica Bay. This would be a floating factory 3 football fields long 20 miles from our beaches with a pipeline extending to the shore and continuing under the streets near LAX carrying highly flammable gas. The floating off shore facility would liquefy gas transported across the ocean from Australia. There will be consequences for marine life, off shore air pollution, water temperature, and shipping lines. The Australian company Woodside Natural Gas INC is lobbying and cutting deals for jobs and ships with various maritime associations to assure compliance with their plan. Recipient organizations were there to support the project. (Even a former DWP official turned lobbyist/proponent)

Very few citizen organizations were represented and I didn't see any one from the Palisades PPRA nor PP Community Council. Malibu City Council sent reps even though they were not officially informed. There was very little notification of public representatives for the "public hearing" and quite a bit of complaining about that fact at the hearing. Another curious occurrence was that the hearing board refused to answer the question of whether the City Council of LA has the power to disallow this project. The panel members refused to provide an answer to this question to the assembled group at the hearing. Rather they offered to address individuals with an answer after the meeting closure. Very strange for a "Public" hearing soliciting public comment and concerns.

The period for public comment has since been extended to October 31st. The Maritime Administration, US Coast Guard, and City of LA have extended the scoping comment period with a notice to be published Oct. 12th. The project may be accessed on the Federal Docket Management System FDMS www.regulations.gov, docket number 26844. Questions regarding this announcement may be directed to Roddy C.Bachman Roddy.C.Bachman@uscg.mil 202/372-1451 or Linda Moore 213/485-5751 Linda.Moore@lacity.org. Questions on viewing or commenting on the docket should be directed to Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, 202/ 493-0402 or renee.wright@dot.gov.

It seems too important of an issue to go unnoticed by the residents of Pacific Palisades. Our community representatives should not be left out of the loop. Below are 3 of the articles I gleaned from the web when googling 'Woodside Natural Gas INC.':

1. A descriptive article about the proposed project

2. An account of Lobbying expenditures for Woodside from Center for Responsive Politics-

http://www.opensecrets.org which tracks the money in politics.

3. The federal register- with the announcement of the hearing, it's format and details.

Thanks for All you do,

Maureen Cruise