Santa Clarita Valley Segment : Residents Ask Rerouting of Oil Pipeline
Santa Clarita Valley residents and officials Tuesday appealed to a consortium of oil companies to reroute a proposed oil pipeline away from their community.
An executive of the company that hopes to build the pipeline told them that there is now a good possibility that the company can do just that.
All those who spoke at a California Department of Transportation public hearing on the proposed Angeles Pipeline asked that the Southern California Pipeline System not bury the line in commercial and residential neighborhoods in Valencia, Saugus and Newhall.
The pipeline, to be built by a consortium of four oil companies, will carry oil from the Santa Barbara County coast to refineries in the southern Los Angeles County.
Protesters, including representatives of county Supervisor Mike Antonovich and the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, complained that, under the planned routing, traffic would be disrupted during construction.
T. W. Shettler, environmental and permit manager for the pipeline system, said planners now believe that they can put the pipeline alongside Interstate 5 through the Santa Clarita Valley.
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