Build, baby, build! Huntington Beach oil, gas facility could give way to 800 homes and a hotel

The rich oil pools lying beneath Huntington Beach have, since the first oil well began operating on its shores in May 1920, produced billions of barrels of oil as well as many more billions of cubic feet of natural gas. While over the decades homes sprouted around the drilling operations, not all of the oceanfront land from which liquid gold has been extracted for our seemingly insatiable use has been developed.

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