Neighborhood Oil Drilling in Signal Hill

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May 10, 2019 - 12:18pm

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In Signal Hill, toxic oil wells abut million-dollar residential properties. Legacies of racist redlining, real estate speculation, and oil extraction produce stark contradictions of affluence and toxicity at ground zero of Los Angeles' 20th century oil boom.

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Mike Fortun, "Neighborhood Oil Drilling in Signal Hill", contributed by Katie Cox, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 10 May 2019, accessed 28 March 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/neighborhood-oil-drilling-signal-hill