Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Santa Barbara oil spill

So mad -- and sad -- to hear the news about the oil spill from a broken pipeline on the pristine Santa Barbara coastline -- yet more damage by the profit and greed-ridden oil industry.  Did they learn any lessons from the 1969 oil spill in exactly the same place?  Nope!!!



http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/20/408176115/oil-spill-off-california-coast-fouls-4-miles-of-coastline?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=environment

Information on the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Santa_Barbara_oil_spill 

Below: An oil-covered pelican rescued by Reeve Woolpert, photo by David Yamamoto.

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