In the article “It’s Past Time For L.A. to Seriously Regulate Its Oil and Gas Wells.” found on LATimes.com, it talks about the 1,000 wells in Los Angeles.
Environmental groups and other citizens want the drilling to stop. Over the past year, there’s been a severe gas leak in Porter Ranch, California and causing several people to get really ill. The publisher agrees that the drilling needs to stop and I agree as well. I’m all for drilling for oil and having the oil field business booming like it has in the past, but if it’s going to cause an extreme gas leak and thousands of citizens to get ill, then I strongly believe that drilling and fracking should stop.
This doesn’t just affect California, a major gas leak can occur anywhere around the world, we just have to be very cautious with our drilling. I think that oil wells and especially pipelines should be taken into an even serious matter so this doesn’t happen again.