Mobil Set to Start Work on Pipeline Despite Suit
Earth-moving equipment and pipe trucks are set to roll to three sites in the northern San Fernando Valley to begin work next week on a $90-million Mobil Oil pipeline, despite a lawsuit by homeowners seeking to block construction.
Mobil’s plan to start working in Granada Hills next Tuesday drew criticism Monday from the Coalition Against the Pipeline, a citizens group that sued earlier this year to block the 90-mile-long project. The pipeline is to carry oil from the company’s Kern County wells across the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys, the Santa Monica Mountains, West Los Angeles and south to Mobil’s Torrance refinery.
The case is now being considered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, but Mobil can begin work because the coalition did not seek an injunction.
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