skippy the bush kangaroo: drilling through the spin

Thursday, June 19, 2008

drilling through the spin

on offshore drilling....

lifting ban wouldn't be immediate fix for oil. if the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years - and likely as long as a decade - before the first oil began to flow off the coasts of florida, california and the eastern seaboard. - wsj

drilling ban is a myth, figures show. offshore drilling accounts for 27 percent of domestic oil production, and the vast majority of offshore u.s. reserves are already open to leasing by the industry, government data shows. - charleston gazette.

and...if there is spillage or an accident, taxpayers will be footing the bill for investigations and cleanup, like our state is "flush" with cash....not! psyche! here in adobe disneyland (santa barbara) we've been having some horrendous pollution troubles with one oil company still here ...greka.

....but hiding among the decades of victories and vigilance, a small energy company — which bought its way into the county in 1999 by snatching up half-dead, run-down oil and gas leases — has been quietly earning a reputation as california’s number-one inland oil polluter with little to no fanfare from the media, environmentalists, or county officials. despite racking up more than 200 documented spills that leaked at least 500,000 gallons of oil, violating county air quality standards more than 300 times with releases of potentially deadly natural gases, and provoking a visit from the county’s hazmat teams 400 times in fewer than nine years — not to mention being successfully prosecuted by the federal government for violating the safe drinking water act — it wasn’t until four months ago, after a publicly visible spill just south of santa maria, that anybody in santa barbara county wanted to give greka oil and gas corporation the attention its track record demanded. - the santa barbara independent

if this "little company" is being lax in it's safety for it's onshore drilling operations, just think of spills of this magnitude hitting offshore.

Labels: california, energy, oil

posted by Cookie Jill at 8:55 PM |

4 Comments:

Dang maybe I should just get a job down there. Things are really slow up here in the northwest.

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Demeur, 12:38 AM PDT

Whaat? You would work for one of those eeevil oil companies? You understand that in the process of pumping oil from the ground...you could spill some back onto the ground. That is a horrific sin even if you promptly report it and clean it up.

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