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To: bentway who wrote (138758)	8/2/2008 11:32:17 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

California will be tough because of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill that dumped 3 million gallons of crude from Pismo Beach to Ventura. It really wasn't a "spill" either. Only the beginning. Real spill started after they got the hole capped off. Pressure built up and the crude blew through naturally occuring vents in the seafloor for 10 days. The seafloor is rather porous in the Santa Barbara channel. Natural seepage occurs. Actually, that event marked the beginning of the environmental movement in California and the USA. It also put UC Santa Barbara to the forefront of marine ecology and environmental science. Purists in the area must be really worried. Sawing the platforms off 100 feet below the surface isn't good enough. They wanted them completely removed. Now they may not get rid of them at all.