Oil Spill Halts at Santa Barbara After 1969 Platform Outage
Résumé of the Santa Barbara oil spill event describes Union Oil Platform A offshore blowout on January 28, 1969, its release of natural gas and crude, the 150 foot platform, impact across 800 square miles of ocean, harbor and beaches, and the subsequent $5 million cleanup by Union Oil and co-leasees.
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Santa Barbara Harbor
Union Oil
Santa Barbara Channel
Santa
Santa Barbara
Avoidance Play and Oil Spill Debate Highlighted in 1969 Santa Barbara Event
The text blends a bridge analysis on the avoidance play from Oswald and James Jacoby with a report on the Monterey Bay offshore drill site near Santa Barbara. It details a drilling mishap at Well No. 5, the subsequent 10 day effort to seal the well, and the rapid oil spill that polluted Santa Barbara Harbor and beaches. It notes winds and currents initially contained the slick before waves spread crude, prompting a national emergency and the formation of the Get Oil Out organization GAO.
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Reese
Dormer
South
East
West
Summer
Winter
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Santa
Santa Barbara News-Press
No. 5
Industrys Image catastrophe stirs 70000 petitions and protests
Secreary Walter J Hickle visits Santa Barbara to view the disaster area as GOO partisans protest with signs and an aquatic picket line. Petty details note many GOO boats run on gasoline derived from petroleum and a beach burn-in highlights the incident. USS St Paul aboard in Western Pacific. Seaman John P Canfield serves on staff of Cruiser-Destroyer Group Seventh Fleet.
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Goo
Secretary of the Interior
Walter J Hickle
Santa Barbara
Newspaper Enterprise Asia
Uss ST. Paul
John P. Canfield
USN
Richard T. Canfield
Lompoc
St. Paul
Seventh Fleet
Western Pacific
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