The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
The source of the spill was a blow-out on January 28, 1969, 6 miles (10km) from the coast on Union Oil's Platform A in the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field. Within a ten-day period, an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels (13,000 to 16,000m3) of crude oil spilled into the Channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California, fouling the coastline from Goleta to Ventura as well as the northern shores of the four northern Channel Islands. The spill had a significant impact on marine life in the Channel, killing an estimated 3,500 sea birds, as well as marine animals such as dolphins, elephant seals, and sea lions. The public outrage engendered by the spill, which received prominent media coverage in the United States, resulted in numerous pieces of environmental legislation within the next several years, legislation that forms the legal and regulatory framework for the modern environmental movement in the U.S.
The Refugio oil spill on May 19, 2015 deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast. The corroded pipeline blamed for the spill has been closed indefinitely, resulting in financial impacts to the county estimated as high as $74 million if it and a related pipeline remain out of service for three years. The cost of the cleanup was estimated by the company to be $96 million with overall expenses including expected legal claims and potential settlements to be around $257 million.
The oil spill, located immediately north of Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County, California, originated in a 2 feet (61cm) diameter underground pipeline named Line 901 owned by Plains All American Pipeline. It was used to transport crude oil produced by offshore platforms from onshore receiving plants to another pipeline that transported the oil inland for processing. The oil pipeline owner initially had trouble identifying the location of the leak. The 28 year old pipeline was not equipped with an automatic shut-off valve but had to be shut down by control operators in Midland, Texas.
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NEPA’s back story began in March 1969 when President Richard Nixon traveled to SantaBarbara to witness the consequences of an oil spill that spewed out between 3.4 million and 4.2 million gallons of crude oil onto Santa Barbara County beaches.
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The Washington Post
02 Jan 2025
The Washington Post
02 Jan 2025