Celebrities Protest Malibu Gas Facility

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered Sunday to protest a natural gas facility proposed for a site 14 miles off the Malibu coast.

"We have to use our voices and band together and stop this," said Oscar winner Halle Berry.

The gathering - also attended by Cindy Crawford, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke and Tea Leoni - was intended to raise awareness about how the energy industry has invested billions to liquefy and ship natural gas across oceans.

There are five facilities proposed for California, with three along the Southern California coastline. One of the world's largest energy companies, Australian-based BHP Billiton, is seeking to build the terminal off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. A decision is expected next year.

BHP officials say the terminals would provide a reliable source of low-polluting energy. Opponents, however, say the terminals would not meet clean air requirements and could be terrorist targets.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/oct/22/102204029.html

nuclear power with an electric guitar.

Just don't curse the darkness.

I'll never forget seeing with my wife his movie "Bring on the Night" in which he worries about the state of the world while participating in an orgy of consumption.

Sting had six children. Quite a breeder, he. In the movie, he took a break from his busy concert schedule to attend the birth of one of them. It was such drudgery, really. Between him and his wife, assuming he and his family members simply consume 10 times as much as an ordinary Britains - and from the movie it's not clear that it's actually that low - that's only 577 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the Sting family.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh1cco2.xls

It would appear that nuclear power is no where near as dangerous as large deposits of self indulgent rock stars.

Maybe they can put the terminals for Malibu's natural gas down in Tijuana, far enough South so that it doesn't offer the possibility of blowing up the new 700 mile Republican Berlin Wall between Mexico and the US.

NIMBYism of the worst sort.