About 21,000 gallons of oil leaked off Santa Barbara County beaches

[Sedona]

Source: Los Angeles,Times

Emergency officials were responding Tuesday afternoon to a ruptured pipeline that was estimated to have leaked 21,000 gallons of oil into the ocean off Santa Barbara County, authorities said..

By 3:45 p.m., the leak had left a four-mile-long sheen of oil extending about 50 yards into the waters along Refugio State Beach in Goleta, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrea Anderson.

The ruptured pipeline is operated by Plains All America Pipeline and runs along the coast near Highway 101, Coast Guard officials said. The leak was first reported to county fire officials about noon, and Coast Guard crews stopped the leak by 3 p.m., Anderson said.

Plains All America Pipeline could not be reached for comment.

Federal, state and local authorities have arrived at the scene to investigate the cause of the leak and coordinate cleanup efforts, said Alexia Retallack, spokeswoman for the California Office of Spill Prevention and Response.



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Fuckers!

[Psephos]

1. Leaks are a predictable cost of society-wide dependence on fossil fuels. n/t

[Peace Patriot]

2. "...Coast Guard crews stopped the leak..."?

I'm glad they did--very glad!--but why wasn't Houston-based "Plains All America Pipeline" there to stop their own damned leak? Why are we paying for this? They're using the taxpayer-funded Coast Guard as their emergency crew?

Update notes at the bottom of the article reveal that it's Exxon Mobil!

Oh, I guess that's why we're paying for the Coast Guard to stop their damn leak. I should have known!

I don't want to go on grousing about money when whales, seals, dolphins, sea otters, sea birds, fish and all kinds of critters are dying horrible deaths due, once again, to Exxon Mobil negligence. But it jumped out at me--the Coast Guard stopping the leak.

There will be many other financial consequences, for instance, to local business with this happening in the first weeks of the tourist season. And there will be pain and loss for many people, such as the local surfer who is quoted at the end of the article. This is just horrible! But the critters take the worst hit--on top of so many other rotten assaults on their lives and their habitats! Exxon Mobil & brethren are killing Nature. They are killing the planet that evolved us and all the critters, and that is our only home.

[jakeXT]

3. I wonder if it will affect the intake study for the desalination plant

Santa Barbara Desalination Plans Take Step Forward with Contract for Intake Feasibility Study

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/santa_barbara_desalination_plant_subsurface_seawater_intake_20150510

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. I don't know about the plants proposed location,

but Refugio is fairly north of SB.