https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/ Oil History is Energy Education Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:44:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-5355 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:01:26 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-5355 […] 1969 blowout at a Union Oil drilling platform, six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara,  shed 4.2 millions of crude into the water and onto […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-5354 Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:59:22 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-5354 […] 1969 blowout at a Union Oil drilling platform, six miles off the coast of Santa Barbara,  shed 4.2 millions of crude into the water and onto […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4942 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:12:44 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4942 […] Download Image More @ aoghs.org […]

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4941 Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:13:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4941 Not just about oil in the immediate vicinity. But the not-so-natural exhaust fumes and waste from extraction, transportation and cosumption. This and a industrial spill is very different from the natural seepage in duration, quantity and chemical make up.
Narrow it down all you like but the reality is oil production has an overall negative impact on the environment.
P.S. save the snarky “you drive a car” crap for the play ground.

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4940 Sun, 24 May 2015 14:25:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4940 Surfrider Foundation posts some limitations to the 1999 study: https://sandiego.surfrider.org/selective-seep-truth

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4939 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:16:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4939 In 1999, two peer-reviewed studies found that natural seepage in the northern Santa Barbara Channel “was significantly reduced by oil production”.

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4937 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:16:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4937 There are a lot of people who continue to ignore the damage that natural oil seeps have on the environment. I recently visited a Facebook page that has a lot of information on natural oil seeps. SOS California. IF we want renewable resources we need money first, oil can do this. Especially for California.

]]> https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/#comment-4938 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:16:00 +0000 http://aoghs.org/?p=14595#comment-4938 There are a lot of people who continue to ignore the damage that natural oil seeps have on the environment. I recently visited a Facebook page that has a lot of information on natural oil seeps. SOS California. IF we want renewable resources we need money first, oil can do this. Especially for California.

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