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California Governor Declares State Of Emergency As Santa Barbara Oil Spill Worsens Dramatically
What was originally thought to be around 21,000 barrels is now over 105,000 barrels of oil spilled on to the pristine beaches of Santa Barbara County. On Wednesday, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County to free up resources to respond to the spill, which as the following horrible images show, is far worse than it initially appeared. After seeing all of that, it is no wonder that OilPrice.com's Charles Kennedy believes this latest oil pipeline spill could galvanize environmentalist opposition.
Santa Barbara area oil and gas facilities
But the images of the cleanup are awful...
Source: LA Times, The Telegraph
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After seeing all of that, it is no wonder that OilPrice.com's Charles Kennedy believes this latest oil pipeline spill could galvanize environmentalist opposition.
A pipeline in California broke and spilled oil into the Pacific Ocean on May 19.
Oil washed up on the shores in Santa Barbara County with the slick extending an estimated 4 miles. While data is preliminary, the pipeline may have spilled 21,000 gallons, or 500 barrels, perhaps even more. For now, it is unclear what caused the pipeline to rupture.
The pipeline, owned by Plains All American Pipeline, was constructed in 1991 and has a daily throughput of about 150,000 barrels. “Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred and is making every effort to limit its environmental impact. Our focus remains on ensuring the safety of all involved. No injuries have been reported at this time,” the company said in a statement released early on May 20.
Plains All American is a midstream company that owns and operates pipelines, oil and gas storage facilities, and rail terminals. It operates several crude oil storage facilities in California along with the implicated Las Flores to Gaviota pipeline that runs through Santa Barbara County. But it has a much larger footprint in Texas and Louisiana, as well as Alberta, where it has a wider network of crude oil pipelines and storage facilities.
Plains All American says on its website that it “committed to designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining its pipelines in a safe and reliable manner, and to meeting or exceeding safety standards.”
The oil sheen in the Pacific Ocean evokes memories of the catastrophic 1969 disaster resulting from a blowout of an offshore oil platform owned by Union Oil Company. The accident led to 3 million gallons of oil escaping into the ocean.
The incident was a momentous one as it sparked the modern environmental movement and contributed to the passage of several federal environmental laws a few years later, including the Clean Water Act. California has not allowed drilling within its maritime limits since then, and has fought drilling at the federal level as well.
The latest pipeline spill will no doubt give more ammo to pipeline opponents, perhaps rekindling arguments over the Keystone XL pipeline. But for now it is too early to tell if there will be any other policy implications.
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Enough! I already had plenty of reasons not to want to live in California.
Your article is wrong. 105K gallons of oil spilled, not 105K barrels of oil. That's a difference of 42x.
I went back to look at the pictures a second time. Doesn't look as bad now that it's been reduced to 42x
The pics are bad, agreed, but to give some perspective, this is equal to about one hour of oil from the Deepwater Horizon accident. Which lasted 87 days.
So why all the hefty fines if you accidently spill a quart of oil?
Next stop, the Arctic. Forward ho!!!!!
In light of the debased, putrid garbage the television, film and music industries in that region have dumped on America over the years, one might consider this a healthy dose of karma.
A proverbial load, blown directly into California's face. The State's porn industry could NOT have done it any better. Talk about a money shot!
Your Jew brethren is largely responsible for that debasement of culture.
The white house hoochie-mama is going 10 rounds with Barry
False Flag, anyone?
Why not.
Everything else is around here.
The best solution to ocean oil spills (after turning off the leak) is do nothing, let nature work, "cleaning up oil spills" (a naturally occurring event) actually makes the spill and copntamination worse, nature is full of bacteria that eat crude oil, there are natural seeps all over Santa Barbara County beaches that eat oil as it seeps.
Yes...BUT...Never let a crisis go to waste.
exactly
Exactly. Oil actually seeps out from the ocean floor naturally...
thank god that coal does not do like that ....
Land grabs can get a bit icky. Sadly, despite the hardship, Oprah and James Cameron will just have to move. Business is business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXvVDbbs5pI
Too much reserve, so spill it instead.
Drink it up, bitches!
Can't they just light it on fire and burn it off?
Rabid environmentalists love smoke and fire...you never hear them complaining about the impact of massive forest fires.
You will. This season's forest fires will release four years of radioaccumulation of fallout from Fukushima all over again. Just like the recent forest fire in Ukraine releasing years worth of radioactive accumulation from Chernobyl.
Although Fukushima is 1,000x Chernobyl by nuclear fuel weight alone.
Haliburton!
Clean up on fema region 9.
With reduced rail shipments from North Dakota, Buffett's goons probably cracked the pipeline in order to create 'demand' in California to ship moar oil by rail (as long as it is one of Bufett's railroads)!
Drill baby drill !!
Dust off the ole Union Carbide playbook to industrial disasters, chapter 1: F 'em
Yep. Burn down a plant to create force majeure. Just like GM pitching corn grade gasoline as a alternative. Polypropylene prices skyrocketed.
Your dating yourself BTW. It's good to know people remember. The company has been renamed so many time after M&A, your head would spin.
How can you convert the oil spill into water? It's a good thing the libnoob EPA inspectors were doing there job. Apparently, they missed this important detail during the rigorous audit.
/LOL
its a good thing, ala the break a window and create jobs.
Maybe not. that only works on things california likes
State of emergency.... we need 10,000 USD for every pelican. Right now a half dozen environmentalists are giving mouth to mouth to starfish.
Climate Change, I mean Global warming...er.. Ploar Vortex caused the pipe to break...The President said so...Now Coast Guard go do your job you denier....(sarc on) for those of you in Rio linda..
NAR will spin properties as oil ready investments.
long Billy Mays Oxiclean .......
I'm Sure TPP & TAP Trade Deals will assist with these kinds of Events. TPP will make this so much easier as we
- Lease land & Coastal Waters to Chinese, French, Germans, South Koreans, Singaporians... for drilling
- Probably big favors out of the White House and Congress will allow big tracts of land from national parks to be Harvested by Foreigners
I don't think the Chinese will be invited to sign the TPP.
It's an end run around the AIIB, and it's going to be one or the other for most countries.
The battle lines are being drawn.
MOAR MOAR MOAR!!!!
I'd love to be at a town hall meeting watching 1%'ers cry about their beach house values plummeting due to this oil spill. Long after this is cleaned up people will still refuse to swim there, especially flaky west coast types.
Have to wonder the reaction if a Apple llithium ion battery exploded in Santa Barbara ocean.
http://m.livescience.com/50643-watch-lithium-battery-explode.html
I'am sitting on a boatload of BP oil spill devices ranging from curtain booms, capping stock, and air inflatable oil containment devices.
Call me, so I can unload my inventory.
/humor intended.
Are you Jack Ma?
What company's profited the most from the planned BP offshore rig explosion? Anyone check those stocks and see how it has done in the past 3-4 weeks/days?
1. Goldman Sachs sold 44% of its BP Stock three weeks before BP Deep Horizon Rig problem.
2. Halliburton via Boots & Coots - 11 days before, on April 9, 2010, Halliburton purchased Boots and Coots for a quarter of a billion dollars. Just who is Boots and Coots? Coincidentally, they are the largest oil clean up firm in the world And when the explosion took place 11 days later, wasn’t it fortunate that Halliburton was there armed with Boots and Coots as they capitalized on their timely good fortune. Subsequently, Halliburton’s profits rose nearly 83% the following quarter.
3. Also, do you remember when it was revealed that Goldman Sachs shorted Transocean stock immediately before the explosions sank the rig? This clearly meant that the preferred Tansocean stakeholders had their stock values insured against the impending collapse of the stock’s value. This is a blatant example of foreknowledge plain and simple!
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Check out the 10K put contacts for the August 2015 for Plains All American Pipeline (PPA); normal for that company is about 50-500 open contracts for each side of the "trade".
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BTW - Reuters reported that 105K gallons has spilled; that is tiny for all the attention this is getting...sniff sniff; i smell blood and money.
I think it's all fudging from the start about whether it was 21,000 gallons or 21,000 barrels. How many gallons in a barrel of oil anyway? If it's 50, then then 21,000 barrels is 105,000 gallons. Or is it now 105,000 barrels? That would be an odd coincidence. Except the number is supposed to be 42 (!) gallons per oil barrel. But maybe the reporters don't know that and are doing bogus conversions.
The initial reports were also that this was an abandoned pipeline, not active.
So at this point, I have no idea what's what.
Got math? 21,000 bbl * 42gal/bbl = 882,000 gal
One of the prettiest little coves you ever did see, what was once "El Refugio" now looks like the Alamo. They're sorry though. So am I.
The "Let's Do This" buckets are particularly poignant.
it's incidents like this that brings out the best from ZH ami morons
you sheeple are really sick.
tic toc
My husband and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary this year. 1985: We drove from our home in North San Diego County to Pismo Beach, that summer, for a little r and r and as we drove up the coast road through Santa Barbara I noticed oil derricks right offshore of what was one of the most beautiful beaches in California. As I saw these monstrosities, I became speechless and my new husband said to me, "you can thank Ronald Reagan for this". So, FUCK YOU VERY MUCH, RONNIE RAYGUNS!!!
You experienced Pacific Coast Highway. Did you and your husband hike on foot or did you drive a car? Don't be a hypocrite.
Your buddy Obama gave the greenlight to drill in the North pole. How are you planning to play out the poor polar bear storyline?
Gimme a break. Do you have any idea how many oil derricks there are in Southern California? And how old they are? There were thousands of rigs long before Ronnie.
And they are all still there...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/secret-oil-rigs-in-los-an_n_362...
Ronald Reagan: The Greatest Actor of the Greatest Generation of the Greatest Nation of the Greatest Planet of the Greatest Galaxy of the Greatest Universe of the Greatest God.
We will see more stock advertising footage of United Nations grant gaming hipsters washing birds/animals to regain another platitude of grant renewal. Without a new crisis, funding dries up.
Those that wage wars of aggression outside of their borders will suffer immense collective karmic retribution. -Nichiren Daishonin Year 1253 AD
Good quote. Common core eliminates history.
Teachers unions and the NEA eliminate all hope of changing education.
"Jeb Bush has long advocated for all 50 states to adopt Common Core national standards."
"Common Core standards were created by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal, supported by the Obama administration, was to increase education standards in America."
http://dailysignal.com/2014/12/17/jeb-bushs-common-core-problem/
and this:
'The Global [ist] Roots of “Common Core” Education'"Today’s sobering realities remind me of the boastful statement made by Nikita Khrushchev back in 1959. Perhaps he was right:
Jeb Bush was THE GOVERNOR who started all the Standardized Testing, which was then picked up by Common Core and by Jeb's brother, USA President George W. Bush, with his "No Child Left Behind" program. Jeb Bush is THE problem.
Also, I don't think it was NEA and Teacher's Unions who brought the schools down, enabling Common Core and No Child Left Behind to "save the village by destroying the village". It was greedy, selfish parents and their trial lawyers, who discovered they could win the lawsuit lottery by sueing School Boards because "my child is being disrespected". The financial cost to School Boards was what stopped the School Boards from maintaining discipline in the classrooms, and when the discipline failed, the schools started to fail.
At that point, the Standardized Testers jumped in on the failing schools like a herd of hyenas, and finished them off with Standardized Testing, which prevented School Boards from inventing novel solutions, and at the same time took so much money from School Boards and gave it to the Standardized Testers' private-for-profit schools (which, mysteriously, are NOT subjected to Standardized Testing), that even if School Boards did invent some novel solutions, they would lack the funds to implement them.
All of which is one reason I groan when Republicans say they're for "less government".
Since the inception of the Department of Education, the Federalization of education (violation of states rights), about 20 plus years ago, the US has gone from about 2nd or 3rd in math, science and reading to about 22nd in 2012...and descending. Now what change were you referring to; that is a large change?
So what?
They'll be dead. No such thing as karma for the living.
Read a book.
And fuck the Japs. They asked for it and they got it. Hard.
Let them drink oil.
Radiated oil , the whole pacific is becoming more toxic with radiation from Fukushima.
Karma for 1945
Meanwhile California enforces the most draconian vehicle emissions laws in the country.
Better to sniff the little guys tailpipe and fine and tax the shit out of him than to actually protect the environment.
"The Spill" did/could not "worsen dramatically" as the valves on each side of the breach in the pipeline were closed very soon after the breach occured. So no furthur contents were spilled. It did'n "worsen".
Perhaps the initial estimates of the spill were revised upwards, or were inaccurate, or just guesses in the first place, but the actual quantity of material released did not change.
The valves were closed.
Never ruin a good story with the facts.
I think that, to get FEMA money, California Governor Jerry Brown HAS TO declare a state of emergency, and then formally ask USA President Barack Obama to also declare a state of emergency. Once Obama declares an emergency, the federal FEMA "relief" money can legally flow.
Really bad.
105,000 barrlels?? Where does that figure come from? Check your sources.
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=153212
fear porn again. tylers - you need to go on an adjective diet.
The water is probably more radioactive from fukushima than anything anyway... a little oil is the least of the problems.
heres an idea
torch it
burn the oil off.
I think the number is actually 25,000 barrels or 105,000 gallons - not 105,000 barrels
25,000 bbl * 42gal/bbl = 1,050,000 gal
The spill is much greater than that and we will nevr know how much or how it happened and any "official" story given cannot be believed because it will be narrated by liars.
we will nevr know how much...
That may be, but remember, there's money involved in this commodity and there are rates of flow, including time elements that can reconstruct when the flow quit on the receiving end and information regarding pumping rates, etc. As a publically trading company, if it is one, this information should be out there for inspection.
That being said, after seeing what Dear Leader did in the Gulf Coast earlier in his reign, your assessment of the narrative being controlled by liars will likely result, inasmuch as it will work to advance their own agenda, not letting a good crisis go to waste, so to speak.
jmo.
After you look at the terrible pictures, think about the fact that Rail and Trucking spill oil at 40 times the rate of pipelines.
Any environmental legislation pending or being discussed in Congress right now? Warren Buffet is real happy right now and payback for all the oil derailments of late is hell, but we all loose.
Dumb ass, rail and trucking spills are... wait for it -- ON FUCKING LAND. You can scoop it right up.
Another shining example of the American school system here folks.
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" The whole world is playing in an "immoral sewer" that is far worse of a problem than another oil slick.
The Supreme Court will redefine marriage in June or July, thus overriding all states (states rights) referendums that chose to define marriage as it has been since the beginning. Think that doesn't matter? As the family has gone; so has the nation and the world! Sorry - I digress.
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See - Romans 1:27-32
I dont know how many wives solomon and david had, but it was a fuckpile more than one. While i agree that the decline of the family in this country has hurt, don't quote verses from your book of fairy tales and don't claim that marriage today is the same as its been since the beginning because that is pure unadulterated horseshit.
don't quote verses from your book of fairy tales...
You're quite right in claiming the bible is of no use to anyone who chooses to disregard it. Personally, I've enjoyed my 50+ orbits reading and listening to it and never cease to be amazed at the details that seem to get glossed over too. For instance, since you mention Solomon and women, I was recently thinking how weird it was that the wisest king in history was ruling over a kingdom that evidently tolerated prostitution, because it was recorded that his wise decision taking maternal instincts into account was decided after self described prostitutes personally came before him to air their grievences.
There's only one class of person the bible is for, sinners.
What an ingenious way of dealing with Peak Oil Storage
Even when oil is free people complain. No wonder Tesla's plan to supply the world with free electricity failed.
Flare! Flare! Flare!
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/05/ukrainian-militants-executed-novoro...
DUH !
ECO TERRORISM everwhere & nobody figures it out.... Amazing stupidity.
http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx%3Ftranscriptid=674
"Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
The stoopid continues to burn...
The Japanese were doing climate-warfare testing decades ago in Australia:
'Bright Skies: Top-Secret Weapons Testing? – Part 3'"Did the Japanese Aum Supreme Truth sect purchase an Australian outback sheep station for its own Tesla-style weapons testing, or to eavesdrop on someone else’s secret tests, or both?"
http://www.bombshock.com/weapons_combat/secret-weapons/bright-skies-top-...
and
'Tesla Doom Weapons and Aum Shrinkyo'
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/esp_tesla_7a.htm
I doubt they were the only ones, especially if they were working off Tesla's theories. Crazy stuff, right out of the headlines.
The stupid displayed here is remarkable.
How can I best invest in these Santa Barbara tar sands? I made a killing in Alberta!
Your movie star/entertainment clients are bugging out. Lots of star's home for sale/sold.
Not sure where they're moving to. Most likely overseas. Maybe south of the equator?
Double post.
Fuck it. Shit happens
Hehehehe These people thought the world was a beautiful place, that life was great but you just had to work for big salary to afford the great housing, and that America the 'Idea' was true and real. S/
Well I guess they got screwed. Does insurance cover oil catastrophes? Will State or Federal Emergency Bills cover the loss of home values, toxic clean up, damage to utilities like water and sewage??
Actually I think there is a Secret Toxic Sight in Tennessee Vally Authority where Rich Residents have been suing the Corporation and the US Tax Payer has been Paying out for the Lawsuits. Something about flood waters, Coal Energy Toxins, or other energy byproducts.
No one has explained this:
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2014 = $46.6 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2013 = $65.8 Billion (what is happening here)
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2011 = $38 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2009 = $32.7 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2007 = $19.4 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2005 = $20.9 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2003 = $13.9 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2001 = $11.3 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2000 = $8.3 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 1998 = 9 Billion
Total past 10 Years Federal Funding Tennessee Valley Authority =$265.9 Billion
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Love it. It's always nice to see CA folk get exposed to the realities of physics and energy. The "environmentalists" who live on thoroughly watered gated communities during a drought, and drive the suburban through gridlock.
I'm rather neutral on the issue.
Missed a spot.
The pipeline company will mitigate some liability and cost by claiming people are willing to clean it up for free. They will only have to thank the volunteers for their help and give them $5 off their next purchase and fill-up of gas at any BP station in California. They will also claim that the lasting odour is natural and normal.
gonna need about a million of those buckets.
St Barbara is a beautiful place or was with wealthy home values & high living standards, too bad it happened.
But PBS is running a documentary about Alberta Tar sands and the impact on local people from mining. Looks like if you want to hear about a bad government reaction to cancer outbreaks in communities... this is the Standard for careless government. Where people are just numbers or statistics. And well they are Native/Indigenous peoples so I guess it is okay for the Christian government.
They are saying this will be the model all over the world when resources and earnings and profits and tax revenue are the key concerns.
Pretty Dystopian, man.
gonna need about a million of those buckets...
C'mon, this is an investor site and numbers are the order of the day. If 21,000 gallons were to all be recovered and placed in individual buckets, that's only 4200 isn't it? It probably took almost that much to make all those plastic buckets in the first place.
I beleive those gasoline tanker trucks on the highway carry ~10,000 gallons, so declaring an emergency for 2 tankers worth is already quite a bit of overkill imho.
But what the heck, this in CA.
Here they are. PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE, L.P.
http://ir.paalp.com/Management
Bunch of white boys (and one girl).
Houston, Texas.
Wait. I KNOW a white boy oil company owner from Houston, Texas: USA President George Herbert Walker Bush.
I hope USA President George Herbert Walker Bush will publicly comment on this, and encourage his fellow Houston, Texas, white boy oil company owners to not destroy the planet quite so fast. :-)
Mr. President? Courageous Leader? Triumphant Hero of the Gulf War That Started The Neverending Gulf Wars? Hello?
In the publicity war of pipelines versus trains, it seems sabotage is ok. No one can say that of course because you are immediately a conspiracy nut.
oh oh
Somebody may not be minding his 'p's and 'q's.
(P stands for pint and the Q for quart, with reference to not getting these measures mixed up)
That's RIGHT!
CA has been a "state of emergency" for decades. Slow news day?
Tyler seems to have jumped the shark with the hyperbole. It's 100,000 gallons. Which is kinda a lot, but it's 40x+ less than if it were barrels
This country is based on Christian ideals. They consider Earth a temporary place to be tested by God to determine whether they go to Hell or Heaven.
In other words, we can trample and destroy and turn the Earth into a gigantic Garbage Dump-becuz God is coming and will whisk us all away to a a "Real" place: HEAVEN
Trashing the Earth doesnt count as a sin...and God will fix it all just in the nick of time if he so wills it.
What incentives do atheists have not to destroy everything? Punishment by a death that will come anyway? No sarc.
I think I will NOT go walking or swimming on any beaches near Santa Barbara for several years !!!