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> you can't built a chemical processing plant in a residential neighborhood, obviously Actually we have oil derricks in the middle of residential neighborhoods

• munificent 4y ago
  As far as I know, pumping crude doesn't produce the same pollution and nearby collateral damage that processing chemicals does. Source: Grew up in Texas surrounded by mostly harmless pump jacks and then moved to Louisiana in Cancer Alley.
  • tinglymintyfrsh 4y ago
    Until there's an oil spill, fracking discharge, earthquake (from fracking), or refinery explosion like in Houston. Houston has both petrochem refining and chemical plants with people living in "sacrifice zones".
  • rcpt 4y ago
    We have some refineries right up against homes in Wilmington and the bad parts of Long Beach. In either case, the fact that zoning laws aren't stopping this but are taken as seriously as laws of physics when it comes to apartments shows that they're mostly a scam
  • epistasis 4y ago
    Just the wells themselves are prone to leaking lots of toxic gases, and a lot of the modern extraction procedures have additional risks too. https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-03-05/deserted-oil-wells-los-angeles-toxic-fumes-cleanup-costs https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-03-05/deserte... Modern epidemiology also enables really accurate tracking of the increase in asthma and other health problems near wells: https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2021-06-02/urban-oil-wells-linked-to-asthma-and-other-health-problems-in-los-angeles https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2021-06-02/urban...
• tinglymintyfrsh 4y ago
  Yeap. "Gasland" is a good documentary