You might call Thursday “O-Day,” that is O for oil. It’s when the talk of drilling for oil leaves the conjecture element and some more real information starts to flow down, i.e. it’s when the environmental impact report will be released. And that means the battle will heat up.

For starters, the city has mailed about 2,500 notices of the project to property owners within 1,000 feet around the project site and within 300 feet of the pipeline route. It’s also going to run an advertisement in Thursday’s paper. You’ll need to leave the on-line and get a paper copy to see that one.It also will have a notice on the city’s website.

And on Thursday — some time during the day — the 700-page environmental impact report will be released. It will be available in a number of locations –) some of them free. The first is going to the city website, www.cityofwhittier.org. You also can go to the central, 7344 Washington Ave., Whittier, or Whittwood, 10537 Santa Gertrudes Ave., branches of the Whittier Library to view a copy. It also will be available at the Community Development Department at City Hall, 13230 Penn St., Whittier.

There will be CD copies available for purchase at Community Development Department for a price still to be determined. Arrangements also are being made to allow hard copies of the document to be purchased at Sir Speedy on Greenleaf Ave.

If you want to comment on the report, you can mail them to Jeff Adams, Community Development Department, city of Whittier, 13230 Penn St., Whittier, CA, 90602 or you can e-mail comdev@cityofwhittier.org. Or you can go to a meeting planned to be held before Dec. 6, the end of the public review period.

The city also plans to hold a meeting where information on the report will be provided and questions will be answered.

But it’s not just the city that plans on holding meetings. The Central East Whittier Property Owners Association will hold a forum on the proposal to drill for oil in the Whittier hills at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Ocean View Elementary School, 14359 2nd St., Whittier. Also look for the Friendly Hills Property Owners Association to hold its own forum. No date has been set on this one.