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Originally Posted by daepp
Well put Sammy.
What really pisses me off is that everyone who lives here knows the tar has gone WAY down, but you can't get the enviro-wackos to admit it. I drove past Gaviota the last time a pipe leaked - it was easily 3 reporters for every worker, and the oil dissipated immediately. Oil companies get all the blame for the bad and none of the credit for the good.
[I]"Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob.
The same is true around the world, on other beaches where off-shore oil drilling occurs, say scientists, although Santa Barbara's oil seeps are thought to be among the leakiest.
Natural seepage of hydrocarbons from the ocean floor in the northern Santa Barbara Channel has been significantly reduced by oil production, according to two recently published peer-reviewed articles, one in November's Geology Magazine, the other in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans...
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About 20 years ago there was a bunch of oil found I an stream near SB.
They hit the panic alarm.
Called out the EPA, fish and game, coast guard, all sorts of enviro clean up crews.
you name it.
A local professor showed up and told them it was natural seepage they instantly his the brakes and told the clean up crews to stop, they didn't want to screw up what is natural
