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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by munificent on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:40PM (#34598488)
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.

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by rcpt on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:54PM (#34598758)
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

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by tinglymintyfrsh on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:08PM (#34599051)
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".

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Re:CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days by epistasis on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:51PM (#34599857)
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/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...

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