Malibu stars join surfer dudes in fighting Gas

This time, Daryl Hannah was not plucked out of a tree, but reprised her "Splash" mermaid role by donning a wetsuit, and joining stars and surfers alike to fight an offshore gas station terminal. Many stars join surfers in protesting a massive floating terminal that would warm natural gas from Asia and Australia and pipe it ashore. The campaign to halt various proposals to build off the Southern California coast has heated up when a smattering of Malibu resident celebrities and surfers showed up in Malibu to protest.Their ire is directed at a massive floating terminal proposed for about 14 miles off the coast by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton.Until Sunday, the proposed site for the 13-story terminal was thought to be closer to Oxnard, an up and comer in coastal California communities. But maps now show the terminal would be close to Malibu's city line, and celebrities don't want the floating gas terminal in their toney backyards.The LA Times reports that Halle Berry, Cindy Crawford, Dick Van Dyke, Ted Danson, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan and others showed up at Malibu's Surfrider Beach on Sunday to lend their star power to the issue. A scene ensued as fans, paparazzi and television networks from as far away as Australia mobbed the celebrities as helicopters hovered. Local actorvist Daryl Hannah drew attention by running across the sand and joining several hundred surfers in a surfing protest. The surfers arranged their boards to form a giant circle with a slash through the middle, the worldwide symbol for "not allowed.""Finally, I'm getting people to pay attention to this issue," said Susan Jordan, director of the California Coastal Protection Network. "The goal was to send the governor a message: to terminate the terminal. His is the last voice that actually stops this terminal from being approved."BHP Billiton has proposed a floating platform about the size of three football fields to unload tankers carrying natural gas from Asia and Australia that has been chilled into liquid form. The plant would warm the fuel and pipe it ashore.The LA Times reports that BHP Billiton's proposal has attracted the most attention because it's further along than those of other companies hoping to locate terminals in Long Beach Harbor or offshore locations between Long Beach and Oxnard.More famous Malibu residents including Barbra Streisand, Cher, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, Tom Hanks, Olivia Newton John and Martin Sheen have signed a letter opposing the terminal that says it "poses significant and potentially irreversible negative impacts to our coast, our environment and to the health and safety of our families…. ""The governor has not yet taken a position on any specific offshore natural gas terminal," said Darrel Ng, a spokesman for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is awaiting the outcome of various studies, Ng said, that put "each project through rigorous environmental and safety checks."

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John McNaryOct 23rd, 2006 - 22:27:43

Just because the dolts at the Los Angeles Times, from whom you copy, have discovered the maps on a three-year-old application, doesn't mean people in Malibu didn;t know this floating terrorism magnet was planned for our front yards.

Honestly, don't celebrity column rewriters ever check their facts?

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Stone MartindaleOct 23rd, 2006 - 23:40:34

A similar story is also playing out off Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, another toney star (seasonal) enclave, where windmills offshore are deemed 'too unsightly' by similar star-ry people who don't want to see them in their 'backyard.'

Bottom line: The rich raise a ruckus, and supplicant politicians will listen. Oxnardians don't have the same star power cache and probably will be staring at the floating gas terminal sooner than later. Everything these days is a terrorist target.

The LA Times is correct, and I was there when all this was happening in Malibu.

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