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Plains All American Pipeline Ruptures; 21,000 Barrel 4-Mile Oil Slick On Santa Barbara Beaches
Emergency officials and Exxon Mobil were responding Tuesday afternoon to a ruptured pipeline that was leaking crude oil into the ocean off the Santa Barbara County coast, authorities said. The Santa Barbara County office of emergency management has identified the responsible party as Plains All American Pipeline.
As The LA Times reports, by 3:45 p.m., the leak had left a 21,000 barrel four-mile-long sheen of oil extending about 50 yards into the waters along Refugio State Beach in Goleta, said U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrea Anderson.
First trains, now pipelines...
The ruptured pipeline -- which runs along the coast near Highway 101 -- was first reported to county fire officials about noon. Coast Guard crews arrived and stopped the leak, Anderson said.
It's unclear how much oil streamed into the ocean, and officials could not confirm what type of oil had been flowing through the pipeline.
According to one of the first responders, the oil was leaking at a rapid rate of “a couple of hundred BMP,” or barrels per minute. Speaking to the Santa Barbara Independent after arriving at the scene, County Fire spokesperson David Zenobi said the leak, which had originated from a broken pipeline on land, had stopped.
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As Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management,
The responsible party for the ruptured pipeline near Refugio Beach has been identified as Plains All-American Pipeline. A Incident Command Post has been established and the CG will oversee the clean-up of the oil by the responsible party.
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Pipeline leak sending oil into ocean at Refugio State Beach in #SantaBarbara.
We're live. #OilSpill #environment pic.twitter.com/rudJIvN3Oh
— Tena Ezzeddine (@TenaNBCLA) May 19, 2015
Pipeline rupture leaks oil onto Santa Barbara County beaches
http://t.co/tY2MN5MBev
Pic: Refugio State Beach, today pic.twitter.com/N3hEPTeLOK
— Shelagh Becerra (@ShelaghBecerra) May 19, 2015
Breaking: #Oil pipeline spill fouls #SantaBarbara beaches. Slick 4 miles long. http://t.co/mAv5es3zFh pic.twitter.com/X7FaUm2L4n
— Watershed Watch (@WatershedWatch_) May 19, 2015
#breaking Oil Spill north of Goleta, Refugio State Beach, pipeline burst pic.twitter.com/43y72uKO6N
— Tara Wallis (@tarawallis) May 19, 2015
Unclear if this is source of pipeline break in SB County- but many officials on ground checking out this spot pic.twitter.com/rneYNFMAH7
— Tara Wallis (@tarawallis) May 19, 2015
NBC Los Angeles reports, the oil pipeline leaked 21,000 gallons
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Uh oh.. but Goldman cautious
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/05/goldman-cautious-on-oil-sector-outlo...
I guess Fukushima wasn't bad enough for the Lizards.
We should move this stuff around by rail car. Much safer.
For Warren Buffet this sort of thing is just an average Tuesday. Plus it catches fire and burns down a small town in North Dakota or Cananada that nobody's ever heard of.
Are you people INSANE??
The oil will help adsorb dangerous radionucides from Fukushima that are killing all the baby seals. You don't want baby seals to die, do you?
Next week, we can shower Santa Barbara with torrents of a few million gallons of Corexit. It's got what seal pups need: 2-Butoxyethanol. Plus, it makes oil and meth heads magically disappear.
Then we steer a low-pressure system over the area with HAARP and chemtrail the hell out of the skies. Everything gets washed away and the place is as good as new.
What? We're already doing all that? Who knew the fucking reptilians were prescient? I never saw a peep about that on Reddit.
Santa Barbara: The most beautiful city in California!
Are those potatoes in the blue sack? Damn water shortage!
sooooo, what youre telling me is that its got what plants need, electrolights?
Infinite free renewable energy is on the way, the oil & gas industries are DONE.
radioactive oil slick, just when you thought you had seen it all.
We Oiled some folks
radioactive oil slick ~ lol
Now meet ~ The law of unintended consequences
http://img.memerial.net/memerial.net/600/flying-sharks.jpg
The tree-huggers must be pissing themselves this morning in LaLa land, with retorts of ban all fossil fuels... Then jump in their Bimmer and run down to Starfucks for a latte...
funny thing is, before abt 2005, there were hardly any oil rigs off the coast, as a result of the spill that took place in '69, effectively a ban on fossil fuel drilling because it ruined santa barbara's beaches for years. fast forward to today, and you see hundreds of rigs obstructing the view of the horizon up and down the coast. who wants to bet locals get all up in arms again about drilling off our coast and magically make those rigs disappear again? people are stupid, short-sighted, and have memories like gnats. the imbecility that besets America never fails to astound me. all in the name of a few dollars more, or some moronic idea like 'energy independence.'
leak was probably caused by that 3.9 magnitude earthquake at zero depth at 11:36am local time.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
A 3.9 at Ridgemark seems pretty far away to crack an oil pipeline in SB.
All that freedom brings a tear to my eye. Drill Baby Drill!
Another surprise draw!
WTF!? It's bikini season! Those bastards!
Buy PAA tomorrow on selloff, A few weeks and all will be forgotten and insurance will cover the cleanup costs. buy of the year.
Plains All American, the owner of the pipeline, has an absolutely horrendous track record. They averaged nearly two spills every day last year in the United States! Now that they have messed up in the territory of the Uber-rich, maybe some local power lawyers will force this criminal corporation to straighten up their act or be taken over.
Tuesday’s spill follows a long history of safety and environmental violations by the company in the United States and Canada, news reports and Environmental Protection Agency records show.
Plains’ recent pipeline ruptures come amid increasing pipeline accidents across the U.S. involving different operators, government data show.
There were 704 oil and gas pipeline incidents involving leaks or emergency shutdowns to avoid accidents in 2014, according to data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The pipeline incidents from 2014 resulted in 19 deaths, 96 injuries and over $300 million in reported property damage, PHMSA data show. Since 1995, there have been more than 10,000 incidents, 371 deaths, 1,398 injuries and in excess of $6 billion in reported property damage.
In 2014 a Plains pipeline ruptured in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village, sending more than 18,000 gallons of crude running through the city’s streets. Toxic fumes were reported in the industrial area for days after the spill.
The company has been cited for 10 oil spills that violated the Clean Water Act in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Kansas. In 2010, Plains settled with the EPA after agreeing to pay $3.2 million in civil penalties.
In April 2011 a pipeline operated by the company’s Canadian branch, Plains Midstream Canada, ruptured in a remote area of Alberta’s boreal forest, releasing at least 37,000 barrels of crude oil. The same line ruptured in 2006, spilling about 180 barrels.
In a 2012 spill, a smaller line operated by Plains Midstream Canada ruptured, spilling 2,900 barrels of crude into the Red Deer River in central Alberta. The company was ordered in January to hire a third party to audit its pipelines in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario after regulators said the company failed to comply with previous safety directives.
Despite its spill record, Plains has plans to construct a pipeline in Arkansas, where an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured in March 2013, spilling more than 134,000 gallons of crude oil into a housing subdivision, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate.
I bet Warren Buffet looks like Mr. Sierra Club now.
I heard Buffet sabotaged it ;-)
It was sabotaged by Kim Jong Un, carrying out a cunning plan that was devised by treacherous Putin and paid for by BP.
Was that little 2 man submarine they used to sink the BP Mercado platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
PS Don't forget that the original oil platforms off Santa Barbra way back in the 70's (or something) were the original NIMBY about offshore West Coast oil production ....
It was the Desecreation of Views off Santa Babara that proved the Temptation of Christ for the Eco-Warriors
They were just trying to make the beach safe to drive their Volvos to!!!...lol.
Sounds perfectly reasonable Stooging ;-)
Hey whats the deal, you've got a ten week old impersonating you on the ZH boards, you get the CIA or State Department pissed off at you or what?
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It's the latest incarnation of that retard Amerikan Patriot. He's had several ZH accounts shitcanned already (stopeuro, iofera, 5e0V2a3, asophocles). You know the type: shits his pants and then walks around asking who farted.
As far as I know, no more than usual.
The clean-up crew is going to need those Fuki-radiation suits before they start cleaning up the greasy escobar fish and oily sand dunes.
"It's the latest incarnation of that retard Amerikan Patriot."
Ahhh, I figgered you knew who it was. Well keep on pokin at em Stooging, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery ;-)
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If Mr. Sierra Club looks like a senile, incontinent, crusty old billionaire wearing a monogrammed silk diaper and sitting in a playpen with Charlie Munger, then yes, you've nailed it.
Oops
Suck it up with some straws, Commiefornians!
Beau Biden hospitalized
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0O42OM20150519?irpc=932
Coke spoon lodged in his nose?
beau biden hospitized
was it anal trauma
or just dads normal heavy heavy petting
All that heavy-lifting ass-raping the Ukrainian people with his role in the zio-natural gas co.
Ain't nobody gone surfin',
Surfin' USA.
The more important question is... who is Tara Willis and what is her phone number?
We're gonna need a bigger ocean.......
Let's drill off the coast! What could possibly go wrong
First good news all day. Thx Tyler!
Where do you live? Israel? Where the national sport is murder and graft?
You little twat, I couldn't care less if the rich progressive fucks living in their multi million dollar beach side homes have oil on their beach. Fuck you bub
By the way, since you raise the issue of my residence. You need to watch your fucking little leaking hole, cause as you know the Joooos control who lives and dies, bitch. BrainStems are such a waste
We lubricated some folks
All the beaches around Santa Barbara are full of oil. You can't walk on them without shoes or your feet will be black for awhile. Tar balls everywhere.
Send congress and the senate to roll around on the beach and soak up that tar.
Then, roll them in feathers.
Sweet dreams.
You forgot the part about filling their socks with cement.
It wasn't Exxon whodunnit it was ' Plains All American Pipeline ' that took on a mind of its own and has been identified as the culprit.
No one is prepared to take responsibility despite receiving huge subsidies and tax-breaks.
FUCK IT
Well its not like they were using all that water for desal or sumpin.
I'm thinking of startin a vicious internet rumor with my free speech while it lasts, with gas prices getting to four bucks a gallon in California...
Free Petrol At The Beach-BYOB! ;-)
These guys are everywhere. Does ISIS control them?
Oh, it's much worse than that: they're based out of Houston, Tx.
Plains All American Assets
Hey... their pipelines use SCADA controls. Didn't we create some kind of virus for that? Oh hell... this is another Jade Helm thing, isn't it?
Regulatory agencies? So they basically have domestic terrorist bureaucracies ensuring compliance. Whew... nothing to worry about here.
Release the Corexit!
Great, that makes Chinese real estate investors feel home.
Kalifornians in denial about the mass death of sea life off their shore due to the ongoing Fukushima disaster. A little harder to deny this disaster.
Maybe critters covered in oil will be better able to survive the effects of Fukashima radiation.
goddammit
Might not be doing the Santa Barbara International marathon this year.
I knew a guy that moved to Santa Barbara in the 1980s or early 90s...
He said it was the most beautiful place in the World.
But ended up he came back since ... it was as expensive as you could ever imagine.
Dont worry, there is a tax for that!
That looks like an avarage day at Galveston bay to me.
Whaddaya s'pose the chances are that oil prices spike tomorrow?
Correction: 21,000 GALLONS. Something like 500 barrels.
A couple hundred barrels per minute / 250 gallons per minute would dump 21,000 gallons in less than an hour and a half.
The only pictures I've seen showed it all contained in a tiny cove, it didn't look like 100 barrels.
Chances are that the company has been applying to updat their 50 year old pipeline, or maybe even 80 year old and everybody is bitching about it and holding it up......
Dunno if this happened here but it has happened numerous times accross the country.
Believe it or not there is no oil company that I know of that wants to go through all the trouble of getting the oil to the surface and then pouring it into the ocean....
They really do not want to do that, it is a fact........
I would take a big bet that this pipeline was slanted for upgrade and some deranged CA enviro. fuel using idiot thought they should fight it incourt.
All of our problems could be cured if both sides would take all the money they pay to lawyers and pay it to engineers.........
+100. Actual common sense in a ZH thread. So refreshing!
Oh noes! What will the boats carrying meth from Michicoacan going to do? However will the population of Goleta proper and it's aid and abetting deputies get through this autrocity?
That portion of Highway 101 is cursed. Back in 1990, there was a train derailment with rocket fuel that shut down 101 for weeks at the Ventura / Santa Barbara line. Then, the land slides and flooding of 101 and the rail line. Throw in the occasional high speed chases and eventual crashes. This is not the first oil leak in that area. The oil comes up naturally on the beachs, so there is always something gooey to step in under the sand.
See this flood video on 101: https://youtu.be/mbivxDohGTk
Where are all those people that were rooting for pipelines when the trains were derailing?
surf's up Gidget
Food for the microbes. No worries mate!
holy shit, 'bout pissed myself on that one
All inelastic markets should be government owned or government regulated. Otherwise, external costs will be attached to the general population as higher prices.
What are the externalities of Fukushima? Would the U.S. Navy have failed to move a diesel backup generator to a higher point, out of reach of Tsunami waves? Or, would a for profit corporation push off the modification in order to make some more money...the stockholders must be paid. It is almost a certainty that U.S. Navy would do what it takes to make the nuclear backup work, as well as all other phases of plant operation. Let the Navy run the damn nuclear power plants.
Liberals will lie through their ignorant teeth and claim that all markets are inelastic, and hence everything should be government owned or regulated. Not so. Elastic markets use price competition and they need little government regulation. LIberals ignore elastic markets as if they don't exist.
Conservatives will lie through their teeth and claim that all markets are elastic, and therefore no regulation is needed. Conservatives pretend there is no such thing as inelastic markets. In both cases, conservatives and liberals, they want to take something that isn't theirs to take. This is rent seeking behavior and against the natural laws of economics, if there is such a thing. Ignorant economists will make models based on false premises and never mention that there are different kinds of markets.
Competiton always makes lower prices..... please don't blow smoke up my ass. Competition only makes lower prices in elastic markets.
Not double containing oil pipelines, or doing proper maintenance? A private for profit company is under pressure to do the wrong thing, especially if the industry is poorly regulated. Not regulating inelastic markets properly causes higher prices and externalizes costs, and ultimately will show up in higher consumer prices.
What is the price to Japan if Fukushima goes critical?
Humanities on-going rent seeking behavior may be our undoing. Our pride defectives, our worst elements of humankind, (especially Caballa Illuminist defectives) are running the shit show, and they won't admit to their massive and parasitic rent seeking, especially rents by trying to own the money supply. If one "loans" money into existence, they claim it as theirs, yes? Of course, it can be no other way!
Change our money type, and regulate markets properly. Markets are not magic, and they are not GOD. Rip the money power away from the foul grip of the money changers, otherwise hypnotism will continue to plague the mind of man. Money masters want the sheeple confused in order to take parastic rents. The sheeple are hosts to the parasite.
www.sovereignmoney.eu
All inelastic markets should be government owned or government regulated. Otherwise, external costs will be attached to the general population as higher prices.
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You don't think energy commodities are elastic then?
bought and paid for by the elite... that's their oil.
Just think what a show the Keystone pipeline will provide
you want oil?
you got oil.
tic toc
morons
Ok lets do that in the arctic now...
Used to work like a Mexican there in the lemon groves many moons ago...time out would be lying back in the shade & looking out over the shimmering ocean & feeling as a 16 year old that it was one of the most beautiful places ...
California dreaming at the end stage....
Spetsnaz first world war is now underway.
http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/15.html
This is a part greed problem and part infrastructure problem. The old pipelines are commonly horrific and should be replaced. The new pipe going in is welded well and ex-rayed but corners are still cut. The corners are cut when management is rush, rush, greed, greed, stupid stupid. I've seen backfill done with dirt which contained shit-tones of ice and in some places they have literally just begun using flow meters. Inspections are often subpar as people who have never welded or worked pipeline are doing inspections, somebody is obviously in a hurry.
And who can say what affect the earthquakes and sinkholes manifesting everywhere have on the problem.
OK, I give up, what DID cause the break in the oil pipeline? Wouldn't be one of GW's false flag ops, would it?