Geologists urge pumping leaky offshore well dry
A special scientific commission advised resuming operations at the Santa Barbara Channel offshore oil well to pump out the remaining oil. The panel said draining the well would prevent future spills and protect miles of beaches around Santa Barbara, California from further pollution.
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Panel backs drilling plan to speed oil leak fix
A government panel urged permitting new drilling at Union Oil’s Santa Barbara lease to hasten recovery of an offshore oil leak. The panel, including geologists and engineers, says pumping with new wells could deplete the lease in about two years, despite prior drilling halts after a previous spill. Dr. Lee A. Dubridge and Dr. William Pecora noted action could be decided within days. no comment was available from Interior Secretary Hickel.
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Weather outlook with scattered showers across plains and coast
The forecast calls for showers in parts of the Northern Plains and along the Atlantic Seaboard with rain in the Upper Lakes. Fair to partly cloudy skies cover the rest of the country. Warmer conditions prevail nationwide with cooler readings in the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes, and the extreme Northeast. Middletown rainfall to date is 11.55 inches, compared with 16.75 inches last year.
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Santa Barbara mayor calls for stop to offshore drilling
Santa Barbara California Mayor Gerald Firestone opposes further drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel. He argues the city wants drilling ceased and platforms removed, questioning the logic of expanding to 50 or 1,000 wells and suggesting a potential long term problem.
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Cosmonauts swap tales with astros at Paris show
At the Paris air show U S and Soviet astronauts shared a relaxed session around the Apollo 8 capsule. James McDivitt David Scott and Russell Schweickart with their wives met Vassily Shatalov and Andrei Yeliseyev outside the U S pavilion. They toured the capsule and discussed navigation then viewed the Proton satellite and Soyuz craft at the Soviet pavilion. Senate seeks names of troublemakers using federal aid in campus disorders.
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