 | | 24/03/2022 16:53
Sur le blog Atomic Redhead
Long Beach’s Strange Offshore Oil Wells are Hiding in Plain Sight
About a quarter mile off of the sandy shores of Long Beach sit four rather alluring islands, some of which feature futuristic looking curved walls and tall towers. Upon first glance they appear to be condos or part of a resort, but the truth is much, much less glamorous, as they in fact are oil derricks.
Oil was first discovered in Long Beach in 1921, but it wasn’t until 1939 that drilling began under tidelands. Of course big oil had its eyes on Long Beach, and Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil, and Shell won the bid to lease the oil field off the shore of Long Beach, but there was a catch. In 1962 voters decided that future oil rigs must not look like oil...
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