Santa Barbara spill study doubted by leading oil expert
Dr. Max Blumer of Woods Hole questions the Santa Barbara blowout report. He argues USC researchers produced a superficial study and that broader observations contradict the earlier findings.
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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1971
Page
9
Dr. Max Blumer of Woods Hole questions the Santa Barbara blowout report. He argues USC researchers produced a superficial study and that broader observations contradict the earlier findings.
California marine geologist David Smith told a Senate oceanography subcommittee that ocean dumping of selected wastes is permissible and even desirable. He listed unpolluted dredge spoil and certain mining wastes among those dumpable, arguing some sea areas are better for disposal than land. Louis S. Clapper of the National Wildlife Federation rejected offshore dumping as unsafe and unnecessary.
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Rhimer warned the commission that claims of no gross oil pollution effects on plankton rest on incomplete data. Blumer argued measurement limits and three hour algae tests obscure lethality evidence. The report’s broad conclusions were deemed unwar ranted by limited methods and data.
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