Late last week, I wrote a column about the BHP Billiton proposed liquefied natural gas 
(LNG) facility that would be located 14 miles off of the Los Angeles/Ventura County coast (hereafter the proposed facility will be referred to as "Cabrillo Port"). Frankly, the issue caught my eye because of the high-profile enviro-actor-activists opposing the project, the Pierce Brosnan and Martin Sheen crowd. You know, the ones who are worth mega-millions and enjoy residing in lavish coastal estates? The same ones who feverishly work to prevent public access to the beach in front of their estates and ban others from having similar – or even more modest – homes themselves? I call them the “Hollywood Hypocrites”.
Anyway, the Cabrillo Port proposal has been described and debated in the papers and the blogosphere with increasing frequency the last few days as it is about to face three different hurdles to progress: a hearing of the State Lands Commission this Monday, the California Coastal Commission this Thursday, and ultimately the consideration of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
THE NEED FOR ENERGY SOURCES
Reflecting on this "Battle of the Hollywood Stars”, it struck me that everyone who has been dealing with this issue should step back and look at it from the thirty-thousand foot view. The Cabrillo Port proposal is really an issue of the energy needs of a state with huge populous. I really couldn’t sum it up better than this excerpt from City-Data.com, a leading website that tracks population around the United States:
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