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"The nonprofit Trust for Public Land on Friday completed the purchase of an oil
field that sits atop the coastal bluffs of Newport Beach, guaranteeing the
property will be cleaned up and preserved as open space.
The 384-acre Banning Ranch property, whose future was at the center of an
intense decades-long fight in Orange County, is considered the last piece of
undeveloped coastal real estate left in Southern California.
For years, developers had eyed the multimillion-dollar swath of land — with its
sweeping views of the Pacific Ocean — as a prime location for homes, shopping
and, at one point, a boutique hotel. But conservationists and local Indigenous
leaders saw an opportunity for rare open space in a county of nearly 3.2
million people.
Originally the ancestral homelands of the Acjachemen and Tongva, who called
this land Genga, it became a cattle and sheep ranch after Western settlement —
and since the 1940s has been an active oil field.
Oil wells, pipelines and other equipment remain scattered across the property,
which is surrounded by a chain link fence that not many residents have ventured
beyond. But on noon Friday, oil operations officially stopped, said Guillermo
Rodriguez, the Trust for Public Land’s state director."
Via
The Fixer January 4, 2023:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
