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To: stockman_scott who wrote (73706)	5/5/2010 10:46:47 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 149317

True, you should have been there. ========= Giving birth to a movement The Santa Barbara spill is credited with being an important catalyst to the modern environmental movement. It also created legislative and regulative initiatives that limited offshore drilling. Here is a list of innovations that can be traced, at least in part, to the spill. • A broad environmental grassroots movement was founded leading to the first, Earth Day in November of 1969. (http://earthday.envirolink.org/...) • Get Oil Out (GOO) collected 100,000 signatures for a petition to ban offshore drilling • The Environmental Defense Center was founded (http://www.rain.org/) and the first Environmental Studies program was started at UC Santa Barbara (Environmental Studies UCSB). • The California Coastal Commission was created from a statewide initiative. (Coastal Commission). This commission today has powerful control over human activities that impact California’s coastal areas. • The State Land Commission banned offshore drilling for 16 years, until the Reagan Administration took office. • President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (http://es.epa.gov/...). Leading the way to the July 1970 establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. • California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) became law (http://ceres.ca.gov/...). • Federal and state regulations governing oil drilling were strengthened. • A CIA owned U-2 Spy Plane took the first ever air photo reconnaissance images of Santa Barbara for peaceful purposes other than mapping of denied territory (Marx, 1984). • Federal Government founded the Civil Applications Committee, aimed at coordinating intelligence and military systems for national emergencies.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (73706)	5/5/2010 11:35:23 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

It looks like we know how these things work and we have had a similar experience. I was not aware of this incident and thanks for the post to educate us on this thread of this incident. However, it looks like the oil lobby is very strong in DC and they are thwarting all efforts to have regulations that stresses safety more than drilling. If we do not have the technology to shut down systems in the event of sudden development of pressure imbalance, then we need to suspend all drilling off shore until such time we have one. After all we have strict enforcement agencies such as the FDA. I wonder why we cannot have such strict regulations for the oil industry and Wall Street. And publications like dailykos etc. are not helping the situation with their constant din "to stop off shore drilling" instead of strongly advocating "strict measures to ensure safety."