Hearing Slated on Oil Pipeline Project
A public hearing will be held at 10 a.m. today to accept testimony on the proposed Pacific Pipeline, a 171-mile line that would transport crude oil from north of Santa Barbara through Ventura County and south to Wilmington in Los Angeles County.
The Ventura hearing is the fourth in a series of five presented by the California Public Utilities Commission, which is expected to make a decision on the project later this year.
The proposed pipeline, to be constructed near Southern Pacific railroad rights of way, would cause significant environmental impact to Ventura County, according to an environmental review completed earlier this year.
The pipeline would supplant plans to ship the crude from terminals north of Santa Barbara to Los Angeles by tanker. The California Coastal Commission has already granted Chevron permission to ship oil by tankers off the coast through 1995.
Today’s hearing will be held in the lower plaza assembly room in the administration building at the Ventura County Government Center.
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