School Fuel: Monumental Beverly Hills High’s Tower of Hope

Beverly Hills High School is keeping a big secret – “big” as in 150 feet tall – on its neatly manicured grounds in zip code 90212. What appears to be a miniature version of Paris’ Eiffel Tower covered in graffiti by 1960s Flower Children cleverly disguises dirty, rugged oil drilling machinery that works day & night to bring the Earth’s inner riches to the surface.

Beverly Hills High School, the only large high school in this affluent enclave of Los Angeles, has had a long and profitable relationship with Big Oil – indeed, the school receives approximately $300,000 a year (some sources say $700,000) in royalties courtesy of the hundreds of barrels of crude oil and 350,000 cubic feet of natural gas extracted from beneath the stylish campus every day .... http://weburbanist.com