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Oil and water flowed from the ground for months near Chevron wells near the Kern County town of McKittrick, and the release was so big Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/07/24/today-governor-gavin-newsom-to-hold-media-availability-following-visit-of-kern-county-oil-seepage-site/\">visited the clean-up site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron also agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine for more than 70 smaller spills between 2018 and 2023 that state officials say killed or injured more than 60 animals. These incidents accounted for more than 446,000 gallons of oil spilled, killing or injuring at least 63 animals and impacting at least 6 acres of salt brush and grassland habitat, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said it was the largest administrative fine in its history. Most of the money will go to projects to acquire and preserve habitat. A portion of the money will also go to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and to help respond to future oil spills.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11760192,news_11762422,news_11769850\"]“This settlement is a testament to our firm stance that we will hold businesses strictly liable for oil spills that enter our waterways and pollute our environment,” Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Wednesday night, Chevron said the settlements demonstrate the company’s commitment to addressing problems and preventing similar incidents in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always strive to meet or exceed our environmental obligations. When we do not achieve that goal, we take responsibility and appropriate action,” a spokesperson for the company said. “We are pleased to put this matter behind us in a way that benefits our community so we can continue to focus on providing the affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy California needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press and KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California-based energy giant agreed to pay the California Department of Conservation a $5.6 million fine associated with a 2019 oil spill in Kern County.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711056512,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":548},"headData":{"title":"Chevron Agrees to Pay More Than $13 Million in Fines for California Oil Spills | KQED","description":"The California-based energy giant agreed to pay the California Department of Conservation a $5.6 million fine associated with a 2019 oil spill in Kern County.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Chevron Agrees to Pay More Than $13 Million in Fines for California Oil Spills","datePublished":"2024-03-21T18:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-21T21:28:32.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980281/chevron-agrees-to-pay-more-than-13-million-in-fines-for-california-oil-spills","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chevron has agreed to pay more than $13 million in fines for dozens of past oil spills in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California-based energy giant agreed to pay a $5.6 million fine associated with a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/general-news-small-business-8e31e63134114c6a9c59a8fb6fc543a6\">2019 oil spill\u003c/a> in Kern County, first \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\">reported by KQED\u003c/a> and was California’s biggest uncontrolled release of crude petroleum in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has already paid to clean up that spill, while this latest payment will go to the state Department of Conservation to plug orphaned wells and for state efforts to respond to future oil spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said it was the largest fine ever assessed in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This settlement is a testament to our firm stance that we will hold businesses strictly liable for oil spills that enter our waterways and pollute our environment.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Chuck Bonham, director, Department of Fish and Wildlife","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This agreement is a significant demonstration of California’s commitment to transition away from fossil fuels while holding oil companies accountable when they don’t comply with the state’s regulations and environmental protections,” department Director David Shabazian said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2019 oil spill dumped at least 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a canyon in Kern County, the home of the state’s oil industry. Oil and water flowed from the ground for months near Chevron wells near the Kern County town of McKittrick, and the release was so big Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/07/24/today-governor-gavin-newsom-to-hold-media-availability-following-visit-of-kern-county-oil-seepage-site/\">visited the clean-up site\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron also agreed to pay a $7.5 million fine for more than 70 smaller spills between 2018 and 2023 that state officials say killed or injured more than 60 animals. These incidents accounted for more than 446,000 gallons of oil spilled, killing or injuring at least 63 animals and impacting at least 6 acres of salt brush and grassland habitat, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department said it was the largest administrative fine in its history. Most of the money will go to projects to acquire and preserve habitat. A portion of the money will also go to the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and to help respond to future oil spills.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11760192,news_11762422,news_11769850"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This settlement is a testament to our firm stance that we will hold businesses strictly liable for oil spills that enter our waterways and pollute our environment,” Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Chuck Bonham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Wednesday night, Chevron said the settlements demonstrate the company’s commitment to addressing problems and preventing similar incidents in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We always strive to meet or exceed our environmental obligations. When we do not achieve that goal, we take responsibility and appropriate action,” a spokesperson for the company said. “We are pleased to put this matter behind us in a way that benefits our community so we can continue to focus on providing the affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy California needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting by The Associated Press and KQED’s Ted Goldberg.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980281/chevron-agrees-to-pay-more-than-13-million-in-fines-for-california-oil-spills","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_31795","news_19906","news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_424","news_20023","news_21390","news_17663"],"featImg":"news_11980282","label":"news"},"news_11891252":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11891252","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11891252","score":null,"sort":[1634855613000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"8-months-after-chevron-oil-refinery-spill-few-answers-surface-about-cause","title":"8 Months After Chevron Oil Refinery Spill, Few Answers Surface About Cause","publishDate":1634855613,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>In the eight months since hundreds of gallons of fuel from Chevron's Richmond oil refinery spilled into the bay, local air regulators and the state's workplace safety agency have issued a handful of violation notices against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Chevron nor the agencies investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859660/chevron-richmond-refinery-spill-as-crews-mop-up-investigators-move-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Feb. 9 incident\u003c/a> has provided details about exactly what caused a pipeline on the refinery's wharf to spill as many as 750 gallons of low-sulfur diesel fuel, creating a sheen that spread for several miles across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez\"]'It's taking so long. They haven't even come out with any partial information.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top Richmond city official and a leading local environmental group say that lack of answers is unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's taking so long,\" said Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez. \"They haven't even come out with any partial information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, says the slow pace in getting answers from Chevron is a tactic that the fossil-fuel industry has long used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time and again, we've seen oil companies stall investigations into spills and limit information sharing so that public pressure will subside and everyone will forget about the incident,\" Choksi-Chugh said. \"Unfortunately for the environment and public health, there's a critical window to learn from mistakes and prevent future oil spills, and sadly that window may be closing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chevron spill led to a health advisory and the closure of a local beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a public nuisance notice of violation against the company, which it posted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/bod_agenda_061621_rv_op-pdf.pdf?la=en\">agenda\u003c/a> for its June board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesperson Ralph Borrmann said the agency's investigation into the spill is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) issued a $315 \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1514445.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citation\u003c/a> against Chevron for failing to \"develop, implement and maintain effective written procedures to ensure the ongoing integrity of process equipment.\" The company has appealed that penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The initial $315 citation is nonsense, just pennies to the multibillion-dollar corporation that doesn't mind paying to pollute,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the multiple entities looking into the cause of the spill, only the U.S. Coast Guard has completed its investigation. The agency issued a notice of violation to a \"responsible party,\" according to Coast Guard representative Lt. Stephanie Cardenas, who declined to provide more details on the agency's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has filed \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six follow-up reports\u003c/a> with the county's hazardous materials program and none has offered any new insight into the cause of the pipeline break. The \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-0209-30day-followup-2021-0812.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest report\u003c/a>, sent Aug. 12, says \"it remains unclear\" when the investigation will be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Contra Costa County officials said they would hire a contractor to do an independent investigation of the spill. But they changed course months later, deciding to have the contractor review Chevron's probe of the incident along with the investigations conducted by state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change did not go over well with Councilmember Jimenez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't need a peer review. We need another set of eyes to give us the conclusions,\" she said. \"It doesn't really seem independent. It doesn't build trust with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that the best time to do an investigation is immediately after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the process to hire a third-party consultant takes time, a good incident investigation is compromised,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's deputy director of health services. \"This is why it was decided to review the investigation done by Chevron [to] determine the accuracy of their investigation.\"\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11859660,news_11861741,news_11856920\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]In late August, the county signed a $95,000 contract with AcuTech Consulting Group, a company based in Virginia, which has \u003ca href=\"https://acutech-consulting.com/services/case-studies/process-safety-support-for-chevrons-capital-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked with Chevron on several projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm could receive the refinery's root-cause analysis soon. Chevron representative Linsi Crain, along with Matt Kaufmann, the head of the county's hazardous materials program, both say the company is finalizing its findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crain says the company's investigation was slowed, in part, by the necessity to get permits to cut the portion of broken pipe before it could be taken out of the water and inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that if there are any gaps or questions that come from reviewing Chevron's findings, the county can still conduct its own investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response is conducting yet another investigation into the spill. The agency is looking into whether the conditions resulting in the spill may have been in violation of state laws, and agency spokesperson Eric Laughlin said once the probe is complete, the findings will be forwarded to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leading pipeline safety expert said it's not a surprise the investigations are taking so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pipeline failure investigations routinely take many months before they are completed and released,\" said Rebecca Craven, program director of Pipeline Safety Trust, a Washington state-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's always frustrating for the public and for regulators and legislators who want to know if there needs to be changes made in the regulatory structure to prevent a similar incident in the future,\" Craven said. \"The length of time is frustrating, but not unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]The spill took place along the Richmond refinery's Long Wharf, which extends 4,000 feet into the bay from the Chevron complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators have said the refinery was alerted to a sheen on the water by a member of the community. According to the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/incident-reports/2021/chevron-incident-02_09_2021-pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incident statement\u003c/a>, the fuel was spurting out of a hole in the pipeline and was leaking for as long as 2 1/2 hours before the line was clamped shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa officials issued a temporary advisory, warning residents with \"respiratory sensitivities\" in Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA says when the spill was discovered, it immediately issued an order to halt use of the ruptured line until it was repaired. Investigators found a hole the size of a nickel on the line that appeared to be blown outward, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA officials say they reviewed Chevron's testing data for all of the so-called \"process lines\" running to and from the refinery to the Richmond Long Wharf terminal. They say the Chevron test results detected no problems on any of those lines, including the one that ruptured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Neither Chevron nor any of the agencies investigating the Feb. 9 incident has provided details about exactly what caused the refinery pipeline to break, spilling as much as 750 gallons of fuel into the bay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634863594,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1110},"headData":{"title":"8 Months After Chevron Oil Refinery Spill, Few Answers Surface About Cause | KQED","description":"Neither Chevron nor any of the agencies investigating the Feb. 9 incident has provided details about exactly what caused the refinery pipeline to break, spilling as much as 750 gallons of fuel into the bay.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"8 Months After Chevron Oil Refinery Spill, Few Answers Surface About Cause","datePublished":"2021-10-21T22:33:33.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-22T00:46:34.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11891252 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11891252","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/21/8-months-after-chevron-oil-refinery-spill-few-answers-surface-about-cause/","disqusTitle":"8 Months After Chevron Oil Refinery Spill, Few Answers Surface About Cause","path":"/news/11891252/8-months-after-chevron-oil-refinery-spill-few-answers-surface-about-cause","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the eight months since hundreds of gallons of fuel from Chevron's Richmond oil refinery spilled into the bay, local air regulators and the state's workplace safety agency have issued a handful of violation notices against the oil giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But neither Chevron nor the agencies investigating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859660/chevron-richmond-refinery-spill-as-crews-mop-up-investigators-move-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Feb. 9 incident\u003c/a> has provided details about exactly what caused a pipeline on the refinery's wharf to spill as many as 750 gallons of low-sulfur diesel fuel, creating a sheen that spread for several miles across the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It's taking so long. They haven't even come out with any partial information.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top Richmond city official and a leading local environmental group say that lack of answers is unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's taking so long,\" said Richmond Councilmember Claudia Jimenez. \"They haven't even come out with any partial information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper, says the slow pace in getting answers from Chevron is a tactic that the fossil-fuel industry has long used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time and again, we've seen oil companies stall investigations into spills and limit information sharing so that public pressure will subside and everyone will forget about the incident,\" Choksi-Chugh said. \"Unfortunately for the environment and public health, there's a critical window to learn from mistakes and prevent future oil spills, and sadly that window may be closing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chevron spill led to a health advisory and the closure of a local beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a public nuisance notice of violation against the company, which it posted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/bod_agenda_061621_rv_op-pdf.pdf?la=en\">agenda\u003c/a> for its June board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District spokesperson Ralph Borrmann said the agency's investigation into the spill is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) issued a $315 \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1514445.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citation\u003c/a> against Chevron for failing to \"develop, implement and maintain effective written procedures to ensure the ongoing integrity of process equipment.\" The company has appealed that penalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The initial $315 citation is nonsense, just pennies to the multibillion-dollar corporation that doesn't mind paying to pollute,\" Choksi-Chugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the multiple entities looking into the cause of the spill, only the U.S. Coast Guard has completed its investigation. The agency issued a notice of violation to a \"responsible party,\" according to Coast Guard representative Lt. Stephanie Cardenas, who declined to provide more details on the agency's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has filed \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six follow-up reports\u003c/a> with the county's hazardous materials program and none has offered any new insight into the cause of the pipeline break. The \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2021-0209-30day-followup-2021-0812.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest report\u003c/a>, sent Aug. 12, says \"it remains unclear\" when the investigation will be completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Contra Costa County officials said they would hire a contractor to do an independent investigation of the spill. But they changed course months later, deciding to have the contractor review Chevron's probe of the incident along with the investigations conducted by state and federal agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That change did not go over well with Councilmember Jimenez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't need a peer review. We need another set of eyes to give us the conclusions,\" she said. \"It doesn't really seem independent. It doesn't build trust with the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that the best time to do an investigation is immediately after an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since the process to hire a third-party consultant takes time, a good incident investigation is compromised,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's deputy director of health services. \"This is why it was decided to review the investigation done by Chevron [to] determine the accuracy of their investigation.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11859660,news_11861741,news_11856920","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In late August, the county signed a $95,000 contract with AcuTech Consulting Group, a company based in Virginia, which has \u003ca href=\"https://acutech-consulting.com/services/case-studies/process-safety-support-for-chevrons-capital-projects/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked with Chevron on several projects\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm could receive the refinery's root-cause analysis soon. Chevron representative Linsi Crain, along with Matt Kaufmann, the head of the county's hazardous materials program, both say the company is finalizing its findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crain says the company's investigation was slowed, in part, by the necessity to get permits to cut the portion of broken pipe before it could be taken out of the water and inspected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials have said that if there are any gaps or questions that come from reviewing Chevron's findings, the county can still conduct its own investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response is conducting yet another investigation into the spill. The agency is looking into whether the conditions resulting in the spill may have been in violation of state laws, and agency spokesperson Eric Laughlin said once the probe is complete, the findings will be forwarded to the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A leading pipeline safety expert said it's not a surprise the investigations are taking so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Pipeline failure investigations routinely take many months before they are completed and released,\" said Rebecca Craven, program director of Pipeline Safety Trust, a Washington state-based nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's always frustrating for the public and for regulators and legislators who want to know if there needs to be changes made in the regulatory structure to prevent a similar incident in the future,\" Craven said. \"The length of time is frustrating, but not unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The spill took place along the Richmond refinery's Long Wharf, which extends 4,000 feet into the bay from the Chevron complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators have said the refinery was alerted to a sheen on the water by a member of the community. According to the agency's \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/compliance-and-enforcement/incident-reports/2021/chevron-incident-02_09_2021-pdf.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incident statement\u003c/a>, the fuel was spurting out of a hole in the pipeline and was leaking for as long as 2 1/2 hours before the line was clamped shut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa officials issued a temporary advisory, warning residents with \"respiratory sensitivities\" in Richmond, North Richmond and San Pablo to stay indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA says when the spill was discovered, it immediately issued an order to halt use of the ruptured line until it was repaired. Investigators found a hole the size of a nickel on the line that appeared to be blown outward, according to the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA officials say they reviewed Chevron's testing data for all of the so-called \"process lines\" running to and from the refinery to the Richmond Long Wharf terminal. They say the Chevron test results detected no problems on any of those lines, including the one that ruptured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891252/8-months-after-chevron-oil-refinery-spill-few-answers-surface-about-cause","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_19906","news_457","news_6188","news_28250","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_6145","news_424","news_29152","news_17663","news_579"],"featImg":"news_11859737","label":"news"},"news_11892629":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11892629","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11892629","score":null,"sort":[1634517913000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"coast-guard-1200-foot-ship-dragged-southern-california-oil-pipeline","title":"Coast Guard: 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged Southern California Oil Pipeline","publishDate":1634517913,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Investigators believe a 1,200-foot cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after the massive ship arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach, the same area where the leak was discovered in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a prior visit by the ship during a heavy storm in January, investigators believe its anchor dragged for an unknown distance before striking the 16-inch steel pipe, Coast Guard Lt. j.g. SondraKay Kneen said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact would have knocked an inch-thick concrete casing off the pipe and pulled it more than 100 feet, bending but not breaking the line, Kneen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still undetermined is whether the impact caused the October leak, or if the line was hit by something else at a later date or failed due to a preexisting problem, Kneen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're still looking at multiple vessels and scenarios,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard on Saturday designated the owner and operator as parties of interest in its investigation into the spill, estimated to have released about 25,000 gallons of crude into the water, killing birds, fish and mammals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the spill's effects aren't limited to Southern California, as migratory animals who regularly spend time in Northern California waters may be harmed too, Miyoko Sakashita, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s oceans program, told KQED in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The coastal areas off of Southern California are just really rich for wildlife, a key biodiversity hot spot,” Sakashita said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11890883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789.jpg\" alt=\"A giant black pool of oil washes up on a beach. Waves are seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1209\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on Oct. 3, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The accident just a few miles off Los Angeles' Huntington Beach fouled beaches and wetlands and led to temporary closures for cleanup work . While not as bad as initially feared, it has reignited the debate over offshore drilling in federal waters in the Pacific, where hundreds of miles of pipelines were installed decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DANIT's operator, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, is headquartered in Switzerland and has a fleet of 600 vessels and more than 100,000 workers, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSC representatives did not immediately respond to email messages seeking comment. A security guard reached by telephone at the company's headquarters in Geneva said it was closed until Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vessel's owner, identified by the Coast Guard as Dordellas Finance Corporation, could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DANIT arrived in Long Beach this weekend after voyaging from China, according to marine traffic monitoring websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into what caused the spill could lead to criminal charges or civil penalties, but none have been announced yet, and Kneen said the probe could continue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for MSC and Dordellas will have the chance to examine and cross-examine the government’s witnesses in the case and also to call their own witnesses, according to the Coast Guard. The investigation also includes the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11891006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill-20211004-scaled-e1633392366261.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in white suits, orange life jackets, boots and gloves rake oil amid yellow inflatable booms in ankle-deep water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1178\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in protective suits clean oil in the Talbert Marsh wetlands on Oct. 4, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California, after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from a pipeline. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kneen declined to say if any damage was found to an anchor on the DANIT after a team of at least five investigators spent much of Saturday aboard the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two other vessels were previously boarded by investigators, who are examining logs kept by the ships' captains, officers and engineers and voyage data recorders — equivalent to the so-called black box on airplanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the new focus on the DANIT, the Houston-based owner of the damaged pipeline, Amplify Energy, thanked the Coast Guard for its continued work on the case. [aside postID=\"news_11891421\" label=\"More oil spill coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amplify representatives have not directly responded to questions about an hourslong delay between an alarm indicating a potential problem with the pipeline and the company reporting the leak to federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the spill, the debate has rekindled on restricting offshore oil drilling. But even in California, that's a tough debate to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking from Huntington Beach just after the spill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged it's easier to resist new drilling than to wind down what already exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning new drilling is not complicated,” he said. “The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are 19 oil and gas agreements in California's coastal waters and 1,200 active wells. In federal waters, there are 23 oil and gas production facilities off the state's coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time, once and for all, to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. This is part of our past,” he said alongside other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporters Kathleen Ronayne and Matthew Daly, and KQED reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Huntington Beach oil spill is estimated to have released about 25,000 gallons of crude into the water, killing birds, fish and mammals.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634521981,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":912},"headData":{"title":"Coast Guard: 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged Southern California Oil Pipeline | KQED","description":"The Huntington Beach oil spill is estimated to have released about 25,000 gallons of crude into the water, killing birds, fish and mammals.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Coast Guard: 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged Southern California Oil Pipeline","datePublished":"2021-10-18T00:45:13.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-18T01:53:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11892629 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11892629","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/17/coast-guard-1200-foot-ship-dragged-southern-california-oil-pipeline/","disqusTitle":"Coast Guard: 1,200-Foot Ship Dragged Southern California Oil Pipeline","source":"The Associated Press","nprByline":"Matthew Brown","path":"/news/11892629/coast-guard-1200-foot-ship-dragged-southern-california-oil-pipeline","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Investigators believe a 1,200-foot cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after the massive ship arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach, the same area where the leak was discovered in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a prior visit by the ship during a heavy storm in January, investigators believe its anchor dragged for an unknown distance before striking the 16-inch steel pipe, Coast Guard Lt. j.g. SondraKay Kneen said Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact would have knocked an inch-thick concrete casing off the pipe and pulled it more than 100 feet, bending but not breaking the line, Kneen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still undetermined is whether the impact caused the October leak, or if the line was hit by something else at a later date or failed due to a preexisting problem, Kneen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're still looking at multiple vessels and scenarios,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard on Saturday designated the owner and operator as parties of interest in its investigation into the spill, estimated to have released about 25,000 gallons of crude into the water, killing birds, fish and mammals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the spill's effects aren't limited to Southern California, as migratory animals who regularly spend time in Northern California waters may be harmed too, Miyoko Sakashita, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s oceans program, told KQED in early October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The coastal areas off of Southern California are just really rich for wildlife, a key biodiversity hot spot,” Sakashita said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11890883\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11890883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789.jpg\" alt=\"A giant black pool of oil washes up on a beach. Waves are seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1209\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-1020x642.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/GettyImages-1344631789-1536x967.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil is washed up on Huntington State Beach after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from an offshore oil platform on Oct. 3, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California. The spill forced the closure of the popular Great Pacific Airshow with authorities urging people to avoid beaches in the vicinity. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The accident just a few miles off Los Angeles' Huntington Beach fouled beaches and wetlands and led to temporary closures for cleanup work . While not as bad as initially feared, it has reignited the debate over offshore drilling in federal waters in the Pacific, where hundreds of miles of pipelines were installed decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DANIT's operator, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, is headquartered in Switzerland and has a fleet of 600 vessels and more than 100,000 workers, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MSC representatives did not immediately respond to email messages seeking comment. A security guard reached by telephone at the company's headquarters in Geneva said it was closed until Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vessel's owner, identified by the Coast Guard as Dordellas Finance Corporation, could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DANIT arrived in Long Beach this weekend after voyaging from China, according to marine traffic monitoring websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation into what caused the spill could lead to criminal charges or civil penalties, but none have been announced yet, and Kneen said the probe could continue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for MSC and Dordellas will have the chance to examine and cross-examine the government’s witnesses in the case and also to call their own witnesses, according to the Coast Guard. The investigation also includes the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891006\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11891006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill-20211004-scaled-e1633392366261.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in white suits, orange life jackets, boots and gloves rake oil amid yellow inflatable booms in ankle-deep water.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1178\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in protective suits clean oil in the Talbert Marsh wetlands on Oct. 4, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California, after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from a pipeline. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kneen declined to say if any damage was found to an anchor on the DANIT after a team of at least five investigators spent much of Saturday aboard the ship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two other vessels were previously boarded by investigators, who are examining logs kept by the ships' captains, officers and engineers and voyage data recorders — equivalent to the so-called black box on airplanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the new focus on the DANIT, the Houston-based owner of the damaged pipeline, Amplify Energy, thanked the Coast Guard for its continued work on the case. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11891421","label":"More oil spill coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amplify representatives have not directly responded to questions about an hourslong delay between an alarm indicating a potential problem with the pipeline and the company reporting the leak to federal authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks following the spill, the debate has rekindled on restricting offshore oil drilling. But even in California, that's a tough debate to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking from Huntington Beach just after the spill, California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged it's easier to resist new drilling than to wind down what already exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning new drilling is not complicated,” he said. “The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are 19 oil and gas agreements in California's coastal waters and 1,200 active wells. In federal waters, there are 23 oil and gas production facilities off the state's coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time, once and for all, to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. This is part of our past,” he said alongside other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporters Kathleen Ronayne and Matthew Daly, and KQED reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11892629/coast-guard-1200-foot-ship-dragged-southern-california-oil-pipeline","authors":["byline_news_11892629"],"categories":["news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_21130","news_30088","news_27626","news_24221","news_17663"],"featImg":"news_11891009","label":"source_news_11892629"},"news_11891923":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11891923","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11891923","score":null,"sort":[1633997173000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-attorney-general-launches-probe-into-huntington-beach-oil-spill","title":"California Attorney General Launches Probe into Huntington Beach Oil Spill","publishDate":1633997173,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta's office is investigating the oil spill that fouled the waters off Orange County a little over a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta made the announcement Monday while standing alongside U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at Huntington State Beach — not far from the pipeline leak that pumped tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the water over the past week and a half. [aside postID=\"news_11891079,news_11890998,news_11890877\" label=\"More Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his investigators will partner with federal authorities, whose probe is being led by the U.S. Coast Guard and local officials including Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll be taking a leadership role, working with our partners ... we're committed to a collaborative, cooperative approach,\" Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said there's an important role for state prosecutors, who could pursue civil or criminal charges, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil spill was reported to federal authorities on the morning of Oct. 2. By that time, as much as 131,000 gallons had seeped from a pipeline that runs from an offshore platform to the Port of Long Beach. The pipeline is operated by a subsidiary of Amplify Energy Corp., based in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we get involved and when we use our tools, we hope that we will continue to do what we've always done, which is be accurate, be complete, be thorough, be objective and, most importantly, achieve accountability where necessary and realize justice,\" Bonta said in announcing his office's investigation. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s remarks came after he and Padilla took an air tour of the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County beaches reopened to the public Monday, and \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padilla said the view from the sky was promising.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed the cleanup operations are making tremendous, tremendous progress. Trust me, we looked but did not see any big, you know, patches of oil on the surface of the water and the areas that we covered,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11891937 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a sunny beach along the sunlit ocean, three people dressed all in white with neon yellow jackets and white hard hats carry tools beyond a group of people wearing shorts, one holding a football.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1172\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-1536x938.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People play football as cleanup workers search for contaminated sand and seaweed about one week after an oil spill from an offshore oil platform, on Oct. 9, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla took the opportunity to \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-include-west-coast-offshore-drilling-ban-in-reconciliation-bill/\">push his colleagues in Congress to pass a ban on new offshore oil drilling in federal waters\u003c/a>. The state of California already bars new leases in the water it controls, and the House of Representatives included a federal ban in its recently passed budget bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Sen. Alex Padilla']'Many of us, myself included, have been calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in federal waters for a long time now ... This is just the most recent reminder of why it's necessary and why it's urgent.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said the Senate should do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know many of us, myself included, have been calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in federal waters for a long time now,\" he said. \"This is just the most recent reminder of why it's necessary and why it's urgent, and we have a prime opportunity to accomplish exactly that through this budget reconciliation bill in the next couple of weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rendon63rd/status/1447685510567059456?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\"> announced the creation of a legislative committee\u003c/a> charged with investigating the cause of the spill and its impacts and recommending any changes to state law that could help prevent leaks in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The oil spill was reported to federal authorities on the morning of Oct. 2. By that time, as much as 131,000 gallons had seeped from a pipeline that runs from an offshore platform to the Port of Long Beach.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1634063753,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":581},"headData":{"title":"California Attorney General Launches Probe into Huntington Beach Oil Spill | KQED","description":"The oil spill was reported to federal authorities on the morning of Oct. 2. By that time, as much as 131,000 gallons had seeped from a pipeline that runs from an offshore platform to the Port of Long Beach.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Attorney General Launches Probe into Huntington Beach Oil Spill","datePublished":"2021-10-12T00:06:13.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-12T18:35:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11891923 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11891923","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/11/california-attorney-general-launches-probe-into-huntington-beach-oil-spill/","disqusTitle":"California Attorney General Launches Probe into Huntington Beach Oil Spill","path":"/news/11891923/california-attorney-general-launches-probe-into-huntington-beach-oil-spill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta's office is investigating the oil spill that fouled the waters off Orange County a little over a week ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta made the announcement Monday while standing alongside U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla at Huntington State Beach — not far from the pipeline leak that pumped tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the water over the past week and a half. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11891079,news_11890998,news_11890877","label":"More Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said his investigators will partner with federal authorities, whose probe is being led by the U.S. Coast Guard and local officials including Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll be taking a leadership role, working with our partners ... we're committed to a collaborative, cooperative approach,\" Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said there's an important role for state prosecutors, who could pursue civil or criminal charges, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil spill was reported to federal authorities on the morning of Oct. 2. By that time, as much as 131,000 gallons had seeped from a pipeline that runs from an offshore platform to the Port of Long Beach. The pipeline is operated by a subsidiary of Amplify Energy Corp., based in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we get involved and when we use our tools, we hope that we will continue to do what we've always done, which is be accurate, be complete, be thorough, be objective and, most importantly, achieve accountability where necessary and realize justice,\" Bonta said in announcing his office's investigation. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s remarks came after he and Padilla took an air tour of the affected region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County beaches reopened to the public Monday, and \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Padilla said the view from the sky was promising.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It seemed the cleanup operations are making tremendous, tremendous progress. Trust me, we looked but did not see any big, you know, patches of oil on the surface of the water and the areas that we covered,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11891937 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut.jpg\" alt=\"On a sunny beach along the sunlit ocean, three people dressed all in white with neon yellow jackets and white hard hats carry tools beyond a group of people wearing shorts, one holding a football.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1172\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51842_GettyImages-1345730317-qut-1536x938.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People play football as cleanup workers search for contaminated sand and seaweed about one week after an oil spill from an offshore oil platform, on Oct. 9, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Padilla took the opportunity to \u003ca href=\"https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senators-include-west-coast-offshore-drilling-ban-in-reconciliation-bill/\">push his colleagues in Congress to pass a ban on new offshore oil drilling in federal waters\u003c/a>. The state of California already bars new leases in the water it controls, and the House of Representatives included a federal ban in its recently passed budget bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Many of us, myself included, have been calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in federal waters for a long time now ... This is just the most recent reminder of why it's necessary and why it's urgent.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Sen. Alex Padilla","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla said the Senate should do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know many of us, myself included, have been calling for a ban on offshore oil drilling in federal waters for a long time now,\" he said. \"This is just the most recent reminder of why it's necessary and why it's urgent, and we have a prime opportunity to accomplish exactly that through this budget reconciliation bill in the next couple of weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Monday, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Rendon63rd/status/1447685510567059456?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\"> announced the creation of a legislative committee\u003c/a> charged with investigating the cause of the spill and its impacts and recommending any changes to state law that could help prevent leaks in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891923/california-attorney-general-launches-probe-into-huntington-beach-oil-spill","authors":["3239"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_19112","news_24221","news_17663","news_18371","news_3674"],"featImg":"news_11891936","label":"news"},"news_11891633":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11891633","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11891633","score":null,"sort":[1633738885000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"u-s-rep-katie-porter-this-week-in-california-politics","title":"U.S. Rep. 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Cleaning up this spill is not enough; we need to stop these disasters from happening in the first place.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guest:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This Week in California Politics\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Access to education was a legislative focus this week, as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills that will give schools the highest level of state funding in California history. We also look at other bills signed into law this week affecting mandatory minimum sentences, plastic recycling and fraud at the state's employment agency.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carla Marinucci, Politico senior writer\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guy Marzorati, KQED politics and government reporter \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Something Beautiful: Crissy Field\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crissy Field was a former military airfield that has been converted since 2001 into a national park. Today you'll find people picnicking and walking dogs at the beach — and this weekend, you can watch as the Blue Angels perform high-flying stunts as part of Fleet Week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1633738885,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":226},"headData":{"title":"U.S. Rep. Katie Porter | This Week in California Politics | KQED","description":"Cleaning Up Orange County Oil Spill U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, has promised a congressional investigation into the oil spill off the shores of Orange County. 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Katie Porter | This Week in California Politics","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/C6hdAYc2aio","path":"/news/11891633/u-s-rep-katie-porter-this-week-in-california-politics","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Cleaning Up Orange County Oil Spill\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, has promised a congressional investigation into the oil spill off the shores of Orange County. She chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for the House Committee on Natural Resources, and in a tweet this week wrote, \"\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Oil's offshore drilling puts the health of our communities, our local economies, and our planet at risk. Cleaning up this spill is not enough; we need to stop these disasters from happening in the first place.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guest:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>This Week in California Politics\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Access to education was a legislative focus this week, as Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills that will give schools the highest level of state funding in California history. We also look at other bills signed into law this week affecting mandatory minimum sentences, plastic recycling and fraud at the state's employment agency.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guests:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Carla Marinucci, Politico senior writer\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guy Marzorati, KQED politics and government reporter \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Something Beautiful: Crissy Field\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crissy Field was a former military airfield that has been converted since 2001 into a national park. Today you'll find people picnicking and walking dogs at the beach — and this weekend, you can watch as the Blue Angels perform high-flying stunts as part of Fleet Week.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891633/u-s-rep-katie-porter-this-week-in-california-politics","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_6188","news_28250","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18538","news_262","news_4867","news_3278","news_16","news_23289","news_20297","news_19177","news_30029","news_17663","news_30028"],"featImg":"news_11891009","label":"news_7052"},"news_11891224":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11891224","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11891224","score":null,"sort":[1633547712000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"huntington-beach-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling","title":"Huntington Beach Oil Spill Renews Calls to Ban Offshore Drilling","publishDate":1633547712,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's easier said than done, even in California. While the state hasn't issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters — federal meaning more than 3 miles off the coast — wouldn't stop drilling that's already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]'Banning new drilling is not complicated. The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking from Huntington Beach on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged it's easier to resist new drilling than to wind down what already exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning new drilling is not complicated,” he said. “The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are 19 oil and gas agreements in California's coastal waters and 1,200 active wells. In federal waters, there are 23 oil and gas production facilities off the state's coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pipeline connected to one of those platforms in federal waters, run by Houston-based Amplify Energy, has spilled up to 126,000 gallons of heavy crude in one of the worst oil spills in recent California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said there is now a new sense of urgency to curb oil production, including by issuing more permits for well abandonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time, once and for all, to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. This is part of our past,” he said alongside other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California remains the nation's seventh-largest oil-producing state, and winding down the state's oil production has proved politically difficult. The industry employs more than 150,000 people and the state makes money from oil and gas leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom highlighted the steps he's taken to curb reliance on oil since he took office in 2019, including a plan to end oil production in the state by 2045 and stop selling new gas-powered cars by 2035. Still, his administration continues to issue new oil drilling permits offshore and on land, though in 2020 it issued more permits to close wells than to open new ones, said Jacob Roper, a spokesperson for the state Department of Conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891079,news_11890998,news_11890877\" label=\"Previous Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offshore, there are nearly 1,200 active wells in California waters, according to state data compiled by FracTracker Alliance. About 370 wells are idle, while nearly 1,300 have been plugged. Five permits have been granted to drill new offshore wells during Newsom's tenure, according to the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to plug and decommission several state oil platforms are underway, but the process is costly and time consuming. It's expected to cost more than $800 million to decommission wells in the Wilmington Oil Fields off the coast of Long Beach. The state has just $300 million set aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It boils down to finances and priorities,” said state Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach. “I would hope that as we move forward we look at those wells ceasing to operate as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional delegation, including both Democratic senators, have introduced legislation to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act. She reiterated the importance of that ban on Monday following the spill off Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians have made it clear: We don’t want oil drilling off our coast. It’s time to stop dangerous offshore drilling and invest in safer, cleaner energy solutions,” Feinstein said in a Monday press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California, a co-sponsor of the bill, echoed Feinstein on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the power to prevent future spills. That’s why I’m committed to ending offshore oil drilling,\" Padilla said. \"As Congress prepares sweeping new infrastructure and climate legislation to address our nation’s needs, the message is clear: We must act urgently to end our use of dangerous fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which lawmakers hope to include in a multi-trillion-dollar social and environmental package being pushed by Democrats, would not affect existing leases that have been issued to longstanding oil platforms that were built from the late 1960s to early 1990s. Many California oil platforms like Elly, the platform connected to the pipeline where the recent spill occurred, have reached or exceeded their expected life span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they age, these platforms become more and more fragile” and corroded from ocean water, said Deborah Sivas, professor of environmental law at Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said California operates with “cognitive dissonance\" when it comes to oil by continuing to issue permits for drilling even as the state takes aggressive steps to tackle climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking alongside Newsom on Tuesday, Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat representing parts of Orange County, said the federal government needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to come up with a plan to not only stop new drilling but to figure out how do we stop all drilling that’s going on in California,\" Lowenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11891006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill-20211004-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in white suits, orange life jackets, boots and gloves rake oil amid yellow inflatable booms in ankle-deep water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in protective suits clean oil in the Talbert Marsh wetlands on Oct. 4, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California, after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from a pipeline. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Mike Levin, D-Dana Point, also has called for a ban on new drilling off the Southern California coast. He said he had introduced legislation in the House prior to this spill that is included in the House version of the Build Back Better Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview with The California Report that he's \"going to fight like crazy to make sure that when we finally have the House and the Senate come to an agreement, send a bill to the president for signature — this Build Back Better Act — that it contains among all the other important provisions this prohibition on new offshore drilling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No legislation to ban current offshore drilling is pending in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the possibility of shutting down currently operating platforms within a time frame of up to 10 years, Levin said one problem is that fossil fuel executives \"have a lot of political power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look at, for example, the campaign finance system in the way that the oil and gas industry has so injected itself into our politics and into campaign finance, that’s a whole other series of issues as well,\" Levin said. \"But I would say that the voters and the constituents, the people who are actually showing up at meetings who are talking to me, they don’t want to see any more drilling off our coast. They want to see clean beaches. They want to see clean water. It’s not a Republican-Democratic issue at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Western States Petroleum Association called the spill a tragedy. Amplify Energy, the owner of the platform, is not an association member. While the spill is prompting calls for more restrictions on drilling, WSPA spokesperson Kevin Slagle said he hopes \"we don’t resort to bans and mandates to address our energy future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any proposal to further restrict drilling in California is likely to increase demand for imports from Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and other countries, Slagle said. Imports account for more than half the state's oil use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s status as an oil-producing state has long bedeviled Democratic governors, including former Gov. Jerry Brown. While known internationally for his work fighting climate change, Brown drew criticism from environmental groups for not doing enough at home to crack down on drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acted swiftly to resist new federal drilling off California’s coast during the Trump administration, signing laws prohibiting the state from leasing new infrastructure, such as pipelines, to support federal drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Huntington Beach spill shows that regulations aimed at ensuring safe operation of offshore wells are more important than ever, environmental groups say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incidents like this one really bring home the need for rigorous regulation of existing platforms\" with frequent, regularly scheduled inspections, said Irene Gutierrez, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when wells no longer produce oil, they often sit idle for decades before they are plugged and abandoned. The State Lands Commission, which Newsom chaired as lieutenant governor, has begun the process of decommissioning Platform Holly off the coast of Santa Barbara and the human-made Rincon Island in Ventura County, but the process is expected to take years and cost tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he's proud of that work, even if it's not happening as fast as some people would like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Matthew Daly reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press journalist Amy Taxin in Huntington Beach also contributed. KQED's Don Clyde and Saul Gonzalez contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"While the state hasn't issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters — more than 3 miles off the coast — wouldn't stop drilling that's already happening.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1633569015,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":1572},"headData":{"title":"Huntington Beach Oil Spill Renews Calls to Ban Offshore Drilling | KQED","description":"While the state hasn't issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters — more than 3 miles off the coast — wouldn't stop drilling that's already happening.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Huntington Beach Oil Spill Renews Calls to Ban Offshore Drilling","datePublished":"2021-10-06T19:15:12.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T01:10:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11891224 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11891224","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/06/huntington-beach-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling/","disqusTitle":"Huntington Beach Oil Spill Renews Calls to Ban Offshore Drilling","nprByline":"Kathleen Ronayne and Matthew Daly\u003cbr>Associated Press","path":"/news/11891224/huntington-beach-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California has been a leader in restricting offshore oil drilling since the infamous 1969 Santa Barbara spill that sparked the modern environmental movement, and the latest spill off Huntington Beach is prompting fresh calls for an end to such drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's easier said than done, even in California. While the state hasn't issued a new lease in state water in five decades, drilling from existing platforms continues. Similarly, an effort in Congress that aims to halt new drilling in federal waters — federal meaning more than 3 miles off the coast — wouldn't stop drilling that's already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Banning new drilling is not complicated. The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Gov. Gavin Newsom","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking from Huntington Beach on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged it's easier to resist new drilling than to wind down what already exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Banning new drilling is not complicated,” he said. “The deeper question is, how do you transition and still protect the workforce?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are 19 oil and gas agreements in California's coastal waters and 1,200 active wells. In federal waters, there are 23 oil and gas production facilities off the state's coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pipeline connected to one of those platforms in federal waters, run by Houston-based Amplify Energy, has spilled up to 126,000 gallons of heavy crude in one of the worst oil spills in recent California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said there is now a new sense of urgency to curb oil production, including by issuing more permits for well abandonment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time, once and for all, to disabuse ourselves that this has to be part of our future. This is part of our past,” he said alongside other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California remains the nation's seventh-largest oil-producing state, and winding down the state's oil production has proved politically difficult. The industry employs more than 150,000 people and the state makes money from oil and gas leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom highlighted the steps he's taken to curb reliance on oil since he took office in 2019, including a plan to end oil production in the state by 2045 and stop selling new gas-powered cars by 2035. Still, his administration continues to issue new oil drilling permits offshore and on land, though in 2020 it issued more permits to close wells than to open new ones, said Jacob Roper, a spokesperson for the state Department of Conservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11891079,news_11890998,news_11890877","label":"Previous Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offshore, there are nearly 1,200 active wells in California waters, according to state data compiled by FracTracker Alliance. About 370 wells are idle, while nearly 1,300 have been plugged. Five permits have been granted to drill new offshore wells during Newsom's tenure, according to the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to plug and decommission several state oil platforms are underway, but the process is costly and time consuming. It's expected to cost more than $800 million to decommission wells in the Wilmington Oil Fields off the coast of Long Beach. The state has just $300 million set aside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It boils down to finances and priorities,” said state Assemblymember Patrick O’Donnell, D-Long Beach. “I would hope that as we move forward we look at those wells ceasing to operate as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s congressional delegation, including both Democratic senators, have introduced legislation to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in federal waters off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act. She reiterated the importance of that ban on Monday following the spill off Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians have made it clear: We don’t want oil drilling off our coast. It’s time to stop dangerous offshore drilling and invest in safer, cleaner energy solutions,” Feinstein said in a Monday press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California, a co-sponsor of the bill, echoed Feinstein on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the power to prevent future spills. That’s why I’m committed to ending offshore oil drilling,\" Padilla said. \"As Congress prepares sweeping new infrastructure and climate legislation to address our nation’s needs, the message is clear: We must act urgently to end our use of dangerous fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which lawmakers hope to include in a multi-trillion-dollar social and environmental package being pushed by Democrats, would not affect existing leases that have been issued to longstanding oil platforms that were built from the late 1960s to early 1990s. Many California oil platforms like Elly, the platform connected to the pipeline where the recent spill occurred, have reached or exceeded their expected life span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they age, these platforms become more and more fragile” and corroded from ocean water, said Deborah Sivas, professor of environmental law at Stanford Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said California operates with “cognitive dissonance\" when it comes to oil by continuing to issue permits for drilling even as the state takes aggressive steps to tackle climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking alongside Newsom on Tuesday, Rep. Alan Lowenthal, a Democrat representing parts of Orange County, said the federal government needs to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to come up with a plan to not only stop new drilling but to figure out how do we stop all drilling that’s going on in California,\" Lowenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11891006\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill-20211004-800x491.jpg\" alt=\"Two people in white suits, orange life jackets, boots and gloves rake oil amid yellow inflatable booms in ankle-deep water.\" width=\"800\" height=\"491\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers in protective suits clean oil in the Talbert Marsh wetlands on Oct. 4, 2021, in Huntington Beach, California, after a 126,000-gallon oil spill from a pipeline. \u003ccite>(Mario Tama/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Mike Levin, D-Dana Point, also has called for a ban on new drilling off the Southern California coast. He said he had introduced legislation in the House prior to this spill that is included in the House version of the Build Back Better Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said in an interview with The California Report that he's \"going to fight like crazy to make sure that when we finally have the House and the Senate come to an agreement, send a bill to the president for signature — this Build Back Better Act — that it contains among all the other important provisions this prohibition on new offshore drilling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No legislation to ban current offshore drilling is pending in Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the possibility of shutting down currently operating platforms within a time frame of up to 10 years, Levin said one problem is that fossil fuel executives \"have a lot of political power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you look at, for example, the campaign finance system in the way that the oil and gas industry has so injected itself into our politics and into campaign finance, that’s a whole other series of issues as well,\" Levin said. \"But I would say that the voters and the constituents, the people who are actually showing up at meetings who are talking to me, they don’t want to see any more drilling off our coast. They want to see clean beaches. They want to see clean water. It’s not a Republican-Democratic issue at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the Western States Petroleum Association called the spill a tragedy. Amplify Energy, the owner of the platform, is not an association member. While the spill is prompting calls for more restrictions on drilling, WSPA spokesperson Kevin Slagle said he hopes \"we don’t resort to bans and mandates to address our energy future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any proposal to further restrict drilling in California is likely to increase demand for imports from Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and other countries, Slagle said. Imports account for more than half the state's oil use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s status as an oil-producing state has long bedeviled Democratic governors, including former Gov. Jerry Brown. While known internationally for his work fighting climate change, Brown drew criticism from environmental groups for not doing enough at home to crack down on drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he acted swiftly to resist new federal drilling off California’s coast during the Trump administration, signing laws prohibiting the state from leasing new infrastructure, such as pipelines, to support federal drilling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Huntington Beach spill shows that regulations aimed at ensuring safe operation of offshore wells are more important than ever, environmental groups say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Incidents like this one really bring home the need for rigorous regulation of existing platforms\" with frequent, regularly scheduled inspections, said Irene Gutierrez, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when wells no longer produce oil, they often sit idle for decades before they are plugged and abandoned. The State Lands Commission, which Newsom chaired as lieutenant governor, has begun the process of decommissioning Platform Holly off the coast of Santa Barbara and the human-made Rincon Island in Ventura County, but the process is expected to take years and cost tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he's proud of that work, even if it's not happening as fast as some people would like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Matthew Daly reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press journalist Amy Taxin in Huntington Beach also contributed. KQED's Don Clyde and Saul Gonzalez contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891224/huntington-beach-oil-spill-renews-calls-to-ban-offshore-drilling","authors":["byline_news_11891224"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_24221","news_17663"],"featImg":"news_11891234","label":"news"},"news_11891079":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11891079","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11891079","score":null,"sort":[1633481099000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-latest-massive-california-oil-spill-what-you-need-to-know","title":"The Latest Massive California Oil Spill: What You Need to Know","publishDate":1633481099,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The massive oil spill off Huntington Beach could become the kind of environmental disaster, played out along California’s beloved seashore, that coalesces opposition to offshore oil production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a messy industry, and previous oil spills have sparked outrage and driven policy and reforms. California, in its protest against leasing in federal waters, has over the decades enacted laws to make that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2018/04/news-analysis-heres-whats-important-for-land-sea-and-air-in-californias-fight-with-trump/\">offshore crude more difficult and expensive to transport to the coast\u003c/a>, and also imposed tougher penalties for spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet California remains, in its essence, an oil state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/714376/crude-oil-production-by-us-state/\">ranking seventh in the nation for production\u003c/a>. Huntington Beach is a prime example of California’s complicated relationship with oil. It dubs itself Surf City USA, and has built an economy utterly dependent on clean beaches and water. Yet offshore oil platforms are visible from the city’s famous seashore, and Huntington Beach High School’s sports teams are called The Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach is especially vulnerable to spills because of its cluster of six large oil platforms offshore. In all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.slc.ca.gov/oil-gas/\">California has 19 offshore oil leases in state waters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.boem.gov/newsroom/pacific-ocs-platforms\">23 facilities in federal waters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced a bill in January known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/58\">West Coast Ocean Protection Act\u003c/a>, which would ban oil and gas drilling off the West Coast, and she reiterated the importance of that ban on Monday following the latest spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians have made it clear: We don’t want oil drilling off our coast. It’s time to stop dangerous offshore drilling and invest in safer, cleaner energy solutions,” Feinstein said in a Monday press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California, a co-sponsor of the bill, echoed Feinstein on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the power to prevent future spills. That’s why I’m committed to ending offshore oil drilling,\" Padilla said. \"As Congress prepares sweeping new infrastructure and climate legislation to address our nation’s needs, the message is clear: We must act urgently to end our use of dangerous fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last major spill off Huntington Beach was nearly 32 years ago — in almost the same spot. That spill occurred when an oil tanker, the American Trader, ran aground on its anchor nearshore, spilling about 400,000 gallons of British Petroleum crude oil into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened, when and where?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The spill began about \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-03/what-caused-the-massive-oil-spill-off-huntington-beach-here-is-what-we-know\">5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://business.lbchamber.com/list/member/beta-offshore-a-division-of-amplify-energy-corp-23835\">Amplify Energy\u003c/a>, one of the largest producers of oil in Southern California, owns three platforms in an oil field known as the Beta Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil leaked from the San Pedro Pipeline, which stretches 17 miles to connect one of the offshore platforms, known as Elly, to a pumping station at the port of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constructed in 1980, the rig is 9 miles offshore in waters that are 265 feet deep. It processes crude oil collected from two other nearby platforms in the Beta Field. Those two platforms produce up to 8,000 barrels of crude — 336,000 gallons — per day, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/oil-spill-response-plan-osrp/inspection-and-enforcement/beta-operating-company-osrp-april-2012.pdf\">Amplify Energy's spill response plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause and the exact timing of the spill is unknown. The \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">Coast Guard was first notified at 9:10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/a>. By Sunday, oil- and petroleum-coated birds began to appear on Huntington Beach’s shoreline, which local officials closed to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as 3,111 barrels of oil — roughly 130,000 gallons — may have spilled from the pipeline, according to Martyn Willsher, president and CEO of Amplify Energy, which operates the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor may have snagged and dragged the underwater pipeline. The pipe was split open and a huge section was apparently dragged more than 100 feet along the ocean floor, possibly by \"an anchor that hooked the pipeline, causing a partial tear,” federal transportation investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pipeline has essentially been pulled like a bow string,\" Willsher said. \"At its widest point, it is 105 feet away from where it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no indication whether investigators suspect that a particular ship was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard is investigating. The area is a busy corridor for ships serving the nearby ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, but they are allowed specific spots for dropping anchors that are supposed to avoid pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]Beta Operating was fined by federal regulators in 2013 and 2014 for violations that led to the injury of workers. The company also was issued 125 violations found by federal inspectors.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Elly platform is in federal waters, which are defined as more than 3 miles offshore, and the leases are managed by the Department of the Interior. The platform, which is an offshore processing plant that removes seawater from crude oil, takes in oil from as many as 70 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do we know about this company?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Houston-based Amplify Energy owns the platform, which is operated by a subsidiary, Beta Operating Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47157/671607_455.pdf\">Amplify Energy Corp. reorganized in 2018 after bankruptcy\u003c/a> and had been attempting to repair and upgrade its infrastructure, which can be easily corroded in an ocean environment. Much of the offshore field’s pipelines are decades old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beta Operating was fined by federal regulators in 2013 and 2014 for violations that led to the injury of workers. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsee.gov/what-we-do/safety-enforcement/enforcement-tools/incidents-of-non-compliance\">company also was issued 125 violations\u003c/a> found by federal inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's at stake?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, an estimated 13 square miles of ocean surface were slicked with oil. And the oil is still moving south with the currents, reaching as far south as Dana Point today. Sticky balls and patties of oil are tainting the sand of local beaches, mostly in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, officials said Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an area from Huntington Beach down to just south of Dana Point that extends a couple of miles offshore and within that there are ribbons or pools of oil,” said Rebecca Ore, U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birds are at high risk, as are marine mammals and bottom-dwelling creatures. \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.sf.ucdavis.edu/effects-oil-wildlife\">Crude oil can break down the natural waterproofing of birds’ feathers\u003c/a> and damage their internal organs. Four birds coated in oil already have been found, including one brown pelican that was euthanized on-site after sustaining wing injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890998,news_11890877\" label=\"Previous Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife has deployed booms to try to stem the flow of oil into sensitive stretches of the coast, including one of Southern California’s biggest ecological treasures, the Bolsa Chica wetlands, according to Christian Corbo, a lieutenant with the department. Pushed by currents, the slick is likely to continue moving south, away from Bolsa Chica and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil already has penetrated the smaller Talbert Marsh, which is south of Bolsa Chica and managed by the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy, said Executive Director John Villa. So far, no birds or fish have died in the marsh, he said, although two birds have been coated in oil, and clams, oysters and crabs living among the oil-covered rocks could be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to see what’s going to happen,” Villa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife closed fisheries within 6 miles of shore from Sunset Beach to Dana Point. California’s environmental health experts warn that fishing in the vicinity of the spill and \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse-com-jtti.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/03185106/Declaration-of-Fisheries-Closure-10.2.2021.pdf\">eating potentially tainted fish and shellfish could threaten public health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newport Harbor, home to several thousand recreational boats, also was closed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CalSpillWatch/status/1444873774701035523?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's being done to clean it up?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard has launched a fleet of boats using booms to isolate the oil and then collect it using skimmers. All told, as of Sunday, more than 5,300 feet of boom had been deployed and \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">3,150 gallons of oil had been recovered from the water\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at a press briefing Monday said little about efforts along the shorelines, where \u003ca href=\"https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/spills-cleanup.html\">cleaning up oil can mean a number of different strategies\u003c/a> — including industrial-sized vacuum trucks, absorbent materials to sponge up the oil, soap-like cleaners to disperse the grease and shoveling it up and carting it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensitive environments like coastal wetlands can be especially difficult to clean, said \u003ca href=\"https://msi.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-valentine\">David Valentine\u003c/a>, a professor of earth science and biology at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s often as much or more damage to send a whole bunch of people in there walking all over this habitat,” Valentine said. “So you’re in a tough predicament, because the cleanup can be almost as bad as the spill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So who's at fault and why?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and federal officials have launched investigations of the cause and timing of the spill. Under numerous state and federal laws, companies can be fined and held responsible for cleanup costs and damages to natural resources as well as the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a criminal case,” said Eric Laughlin, a public information officer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “There is a federal and a state investigation separate from this response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever needs to be done, we will take care of it,” Amplify's Willsher said at a press briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities will want to review Amplify Energy’s operations records, the status of their equipment and whether workers were negligent in any way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, officials will want to determine how quickly the company reported the spill. For safety reasons, oil and gas production pipelines usually have shutoff valves that allow operators to quickly staunch the flow. When a breach is detected, time is of the essence to cut off the flow and begin efforts to contain the spill and prevent it from reaching shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Martyn Willsher, president and CEO of Amplify Energy Corp.\"]'Whatever needs to be done, we will take care of it.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has sent a remotely operated vehicle to inspect 8,000 feet of the pipeline, and identified an area of “significant interest” that divers were set to inspect this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no active leak that we are aware of and especially in that specific area that we’ve identified,” Willsher said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"http://orangecountyda.org/office/spitzer.asp\">Todd Spitzer\u003c/a> urged investigators to oversee Amplify’s divers as they inspect the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t be able to go anywhere near that pipeline,” Spitzer said. “They are biased, they’re self-interested, and they’re going to do everything they can to try to reduce their damages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who's in charge?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">The accident is under unified command\u003c/a>: The United States Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response are directing the emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Todd Spitzer, Orange County district attorney\"]'They shouldn’t be able to go anywhere near that pipeline. They are biased, they’re self interested, and they’re going to do everything they can to try to reduce their damages.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform’s owner, Amplify Energy, also is involved. The city of Huntington Beach is participating, too, and state agencies such as the California Coastal Commission, the State Lands Commission and the State Parks Department, which has property in the path of the oil, are also monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who pays?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once the investigation identifies a responsible party, state and federal officials will undertake a \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/OSPR/NRDA/About\">Natural Resource Damage Assessment\u003c/a>, conducted through the fish and wildlife agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complex and painstaking analysis quantifies death and injuries to wildlife — assigning a dollar value to a shore bird, for example — and estimates the cost of restoring the oiled landscape and waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent legislation has beefed up the state’s ability to penalize companies for oil spills: A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3214\">2020 law doubled the minimum and maximum fines for an array of oil spill violations\u003c/a> and added a provision that a person who knowingly discharged or spilled oil into state waters, or failed to clean up the spill, could be fined up to $1,000 per gallon in spills of more than 1,000 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2864\">law, from 2018, required the state to consult with agencies\u003c/a> such as the California Coastal Commission when evaluating damage to public resources such as beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coastal Commission already has the authority to fine entities for activities that deny coastal access. A bill that would expand the commission’s ability to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB433\">levy fines for environmental damage\u003c/a> passed the legislature in September and is on the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state needs to send a message to companies that they will be required to pay to clean up after themselves, said state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Redondo Beach and the bill’s author. “The state bears so much of the damage and cost associated with these spills,” he said. “This will give the state the tool it needs to hold companies accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How expensive is it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The price tag for environmental cleanup and fines can be high, although certainly affordable for mega companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After extensive litigation over the 1990 spill in Huntington Beach, several companies, including British Petroleum, Brandenburger Marine and tanker owner Attransco, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-16-million-settlement-american-trader-oil\">paid about $27 million\u003c/a> in cleanup costs and damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a judge issued fines and penalties of $3.35 million against Plains All American Pipeline for \u003ca href=\"https://darrp.noaa.gov/oil-spills/refugio-beach-oil-spill\">the Refugio spill near Santa Barbara\u003c/a>, far less than the $1 billion that prosecutors had sought. In addition, the company pegged its cleanup costs at $335 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of that spectrum is the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which killed 11 workers on a drilling rig that spewed 3 million barrels of crude oil across 40,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/bp-paid-a-steep-price-for-the-gulf-oil-spill-but-for-the-us-a-decade-later-its-business-as-usual-136905#:~:text=BP%20paid%20dearly%20for%20the,economic%20claims%20and%20cleanup%20costs.\">British Petroleum finally paid $60 billion\u003c/a> in criminal and civil penalties, environmental damages and cleanup costs. British Petroleum also was fined for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the federal Clean Water Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What has the state done to avoid and prepare for oil spills?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 1990 oil spill off Huntington Beach led to the passage of the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act, \u003ca href=\"https://crrc.unh.edu/sites/crrc.unh.edu/files/media/docs/Workshops/human_dimensions/reading_materials/ospr_information.pdf\">which established the state Oil Spill Prevention and Response agency\u003c/a> under the Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, the oil spill agency created the state’s first comprehensive plan to respond to oil spills, and established a government-wide network of some 22 agencies that share information and responsibility responding to spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature provided money for a $50 million trust fund, whose interest payments support the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The agency also supports wildlife care centers and rescue centers. The first one opened in 1997 at Humboldt State University in Arcata. There are now 12 such centers around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does this compare to other spills in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The largest oil spill in California history was a catalyst for the launch of the American environmental movement and the establishment of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/\">1969 blowout at a Union Oil drilling platform\u003c/a> 6 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara spilled 4.2 millions of crude into the water and onto nearby beaches before it was brought under control 11 days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, after the Santa Barbara incident, two oil tankers collided in the mouth of San Francisco Bay, releasing 840,000 gallons of oil into the water. Tides and winds carried the spill north and south along a coastline that served as a critical wintering habitat for aquatic birds. A \u003ca href=\"https://archive.westernfieldornithologists.org/archive/V03/3(2)%20p0025-p0032.pdf\">1972 report by Western Field Ornithologists\u003c/a> estimated 20,000 birds died as a result of exposure to the oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990 Huntington Beach spill, shoreline from Seal Beach south to Newport Beach was coated with oil from the 400,000 gallon spill from the American Trader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the Hong Kong-owned oil tanker Cosco Busan sideswiped a supporting pier of the Bay Bridge in heavy fog. The resulting 100-foot gash released 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, killing an estimated 6,800 birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Refugio State Beach spill, which occurred 24 miles west of Santa Barbara in 2015, was distinctive in that the pipeline rupture occurred onshore, about a mile inland from the beach. The spill sent an estimated 120,000 gallons into a culvert that drained into the Pacific, damaging a rich marine ecosystem of kelp forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earnings report later that year, Plains All American Pipeline, the Houston-based owner of the pipeline, estimated 142,800 gallons had leaked from the 29-year-old pipe. Emergency response and cleanup costs were estimated at $257 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Don Clyde contributed to this post. Reporting from The Associated Press also was used in this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California oil spills have driven policy and reforms, making it more difficult to transport offshore oil to the coast and imposing fines.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1633545222,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":73,"wordCount":2855},"headData":{"title":"The Latest Massive California Oil Spill: What You Need to Know | KQED","description":"California oil spills have driven policy and reforms, making it more difficult to transport offshore oil to the coast and imposing fines.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Latest Massive California Oil Spill: What You Need to Know","datePublished":"2021-10-06T00:44:59.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-06T18:33:42.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11891079 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11891079","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/05/the-latest-massive-california-oil-spill-what-you-need-to-know/","disqusTitle":"The Latest Massive California Oil Spill: What You Need to Know","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/julie-cart/\">Julie Cart\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/rachel-becker/\">Rachel Becker\u003c/a>\u003cbr>CalMatters","path":"/news/11891079/the-latest-massive-california-oil-spill-what-you-need-to-know","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The massive oil spill off Huntington Beach could become the kind of environmental disaster, played out along California’s beloved seashore, that coalesces opposition to offshore oil production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be a messy industry, and previous oil spills have sparked outrage and driven policy and reforms. California, in its protest against leasing in federal waters, has over the decades enacted laws to make that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2018/04/news-analysis-heres-whats-important-for-land-sea-and-air-in-californias-fight-with-trump/\">offshore crude more difficult and expensive to transport to the coast\u003c/a>, and also imposed tougher penalties for spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet California remains, in its essence, an oil state, \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/714376/crude-oil-production-by-us-state/\">ranking seventh in the nation for production\u003c/a>. Huntington Beach is a prime example of California’s complicated relationship with oil. It dubs itself Surf City USA, and has built an economy utterly dependent on clean beaches and water. Yet offshore oil platforms are visible from the city’s famous seashore, and Huntington Beach High School’s sports teams are called The Oilers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huntington Beach is especially vulnerable to spills because of its cluster of six large oil platforms offshore. In all, \u003ca href=\"https://www.slc.ca.gov/oil-gas/\">California has 19 offshore oil leases in state waters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.boem.gov/newsroom/pacific-ocs-platforms\">23 facilities in federal waters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced a bill in January known as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/58\">West Coast Ocean Protection Act\u003c/a>, which would ban oil and gas drilling off the West Coast, and she reiterated the importance of that ban on Monday following the latest spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Californians have made it clear: We don’t want oil drilling off our coast. It’s time to stop dangerous offshore drilling and invest in safer, cleaner energy solutions,” Feinstein said in a Monday press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla of California, a co-sponsor of the bill, echoed Feinstein on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have the power to prevent future spills. That’s why I’m committed to ending offshore oil drilling,\" Padilla said. \"As Congress prepares sweeping new infrastructure and climate legislation to address our nation’s needs, the message is clear: We must act urgently to end our use of dangerous fossil fuels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last major spill off Huntington Beach was nearly 32 years ago — in almost the same spot. That spill occurred when an oil tanker, the American Trader, ran aground on its anchor nearshore, spilling about 400,000 gallons of British Petroleum crude oil into the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What happened, when and where?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The spill began about \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-03/what-caused-the-massive-oil-spill-off-huntington-beach-here-is-what-we-know\">5 miles off the coast of Huntington Beach\u003c/a>, where \u003ca href=\"https://business.lbchamber.com/list/member/beta-offshore-a-division-of-amplify-energy-corp-23835\">Amplify Energy\u003c/a>, one of the largest producers of oil in Southern California, owns three platforms in an oil field known as the Beta Field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The oil leaked from the San Pedro Pipeline, which stretches 17 miles to connect one of the offshore platforms, known as Elly, to a pumping station at the port of Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Constructed in 1980, the rig is 9 miles offshore in waters that are 265 feet deep. It processes crude oil collected from two other nearby platforms in the Beta Field. Those two platforms produce up to 8,000 barrels of crude — 336,000 gallons — per day, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsee.gov/sites/bsee.gov/files/oil-spill-response-plan-osrp/inspection-and-enforcement/beta-operating-company-osrp-april-2012.pdf\">Amplify Energy's spill response plan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause and the exact timing of the spill is unknown. The \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">Coast Guard was first notified at 9:10 a.m. Saturday\u003c/a>. By Sunday, oil- and petroleum-coated birds began to appear on Huntington Beach’s shoreline, which local officials closed to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As much as 3,111 barrels of oil — roughly 130,000 gallons — may have spilled from the pipeline, according to Martyn Willsher, president and CEO of Amplify Energy, which operates the pipeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence emerged Tuesday that a ship’s anchor may have snagged and dragged the underwater pipeline. The pipe was split open and a huge section was apparently dragged more than 100 feet along the ocean floor, possibly by \"an anchor that hooked the pipeline, causing a partial tear,” federal transportation investigators said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The pipeline has essentially been pulled like a bow string,\" Willsher said. \"At its widest point, it is 105 feet away from where it was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no indication whether investigators suspect that a particular ship was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard is investigating. The area is a busy corridor for ships serving the nearby ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, but they are allowed specific spots for dropping anchors that are supposed to avoid pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Beta Operating was fined by federal regulators in 2013 and 2014 for violations that led to the injury of workers. The company also was issued 125 violations found by federal inspectors.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Elly platform is in federal waters, which are defined as more than 3 miles offshore, and the leases are managed by the Department of the Interior. The platform, which is an offshore processing plant that removes seawater from crude oil, takes in oil from as many as 70 wells.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What do we know about this company?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Houston-based Amplify Energy owns the platform, which is operated by a subsidiary, Beta Operating Company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47157/671607_455.pdf\">Amplify Energy Corp. reorganized in 2018 after bankruptcy\u003c/a> and had been attempting to repair and upgrade its infrastructure, which can be easily corroded in an ocean environment. Much of the offshore field’s pipelines are decades old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beta Operating was fined by federal regulators in 2013 and 2014 for violations that led to the injury of workers. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.bsee.gov/what-we-do/safety-enforcement/enforcement-tools/incidents-of-non-compliance\">company also was issued 125 violations\u003c/a> found by federal inspectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What's at stake?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, an estimated 13 square miles of ocean surface were slicked with oil. And the oil is still moving south with the currents, reaching as far south as Dana Point today. Sticky balls and patties of oil are tainting the sand of local beaches, mostly in Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, officials said Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is an area from Huntington Beach down to just south of Dana Point that extends a couple of miles offshore and within that there are ribbons or pools of oil,” said Rebecca Ore, U.S. Coast Guard captain of the port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Birds are at high risk, as are marine mammals and bottom-dwelling creatures. \u003ca href=\"https://owcn.sf.ucdavis.edu/effects-oil-wildlife\">Crude oil can break down the natural waterproofing of birds’ feathers\u003c/a> and damage their internal organs. Four birds coated in oil already have been found, including one brown pelican that was euthanized on-site after sustaining wing injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11890998,news_11890877","label":"Previous Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife has deployed booms to try to stem the flow of oil into sensitive stretches of the coast, including one of Southern California’s biggest ecological treasures, the Bolsa Chica wetlands, according to Christian Corbo, a lieutenant with the department. Pushed by currents, the slick is likely to continue moving south, away from Bolsa Chica and Long Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil already has penetrated the smaller Talbert Marsh, which is south of Bolsa Chica and managed by the Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy, said Executive Director John Villa. So far, no birds or fish have died in the marsh, he said, although two birds have been coated in oil, and clams, oysters and crabs living among the oil-covered rocks could be at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll have to see what’s going to happen,” Villa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife closed fisheries within 6 miles of shore from Sunset Beach to Dana Point. California’s environmental health experts warn that fishing in the vicinity of the spill and \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse-com-jtti.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/03185106/Declaration-of-Fisheries-Closure-10.2.2021.pdf\">eating potentially tainted fish and shellfish could threaten public health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newport Harbor, home to several thousand recreational boats, also was closed down.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1444873774701035523"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch3>What's being done to clean it up?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard has launched a fleet of boats using booms to isolate the oil and then collect it using skimmers. All told, as of Sunday, more than 5,300 feet of boom had been deployed and \u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">3,150 gallons of oil had been recovered from the water\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at a press briefing Monday said little about efforts along the shorelines, where \u003ca href=\"https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/spills-cleanup.html\">cleaning up oil can mean a number of different strategies\u003c/a> — including industrial-sized vacuum trucks, absorbent materials to sponge up the oil, soap-like cleaners to disperse the grease and shoveling it up and carting it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sensitive environments like coastal wetlands can be especially difficult to clean, said \u003ca href=\"https://msi.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-valentine\">David Valentine\u003c/a>, a professor of earth science and biology at UC Santa Barbara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s often as much or more damage to send a whole bunch of people in there walking all over this habitat,” Valentine said. “So you’re in a tough predicament, because the cleanup can be almost as bad as the spill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So who's at fault and why?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>State and federal officials have launched investigations of the cause and timing of the spill. Under numerous state and federal laws, companies can be fined and held responsible for cleanup costs and damages to natural resources as well as the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a criminal case,” said Eric Laughlin, a public information officer with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “There is a federal and a state investigation separate from this response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever needs to be done, we will take care of it,” Amplify's Willsher said at a press briefing Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities will want to review Amplify Energy’s operations records, the status of their equipment and whether workers were negligent in any way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, officials will want to determine how quickly the company reported the spill. For safety reasons, oil and gas production pipelines usually have shutoff valves that allow operators to quickly staunch the flow. When a breach is detected, time is of the essence to cut off the flow and begin efforts to contain the spill and prevent it from reaching shore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Whatever needs to be done, we will take care of it.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Martyn Willsher, president and CEO of Amplify Energy Corp.","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has sent a remotely operated vehicle to inspect 8,000 feet of the pipeline, and identified an area of “significant interest” that divers were set to inspect this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no active leak that we are aware of and especially in that specific area that we’ve identified,” Willsher said\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"http://orangecountyda.org/office/spitzer.asp\">Todd Spitzer\u003c/a> urged investigators to oversee Amplify’s divers as they inspect the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t be able to go anywhere near that pipeline,” Spitzer said. “They are biased, they’re self-interested, and they’re going to do everything they can to try to reduce their damages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who's in charge?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://socalspillresponse.com/\">The accident is under unified command\u003c/a>: The United States Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response are directing the emergency response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'They shouldn’t be able to go anywhere near that pipeline. They are biased, they’re self interested, and they’re going to do everything they can to try to reduce their damages.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Todd Spitzer, Orange County district attorney","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform’s owner, Amplify Energy, also is involved. The city of Huntington Beach is participating, too, and state agencies such as the California Coastal Commission, the State Lands Commission and the State Parks Department, which has property in the path of the oil, are also monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Who pays?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Once the investigation identifies a responsible party, state and federal officials will undertake a \u003ca href=\"https://wildlife.ca.gov/OSPR/NRDA/About\">Natural Resource Damage Assessment\u003c/a>, conducted through the fish and wildlife agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complex and painstaking analysis quantifies death and injuries to wildlife — assigning a dollar value to a shore bird, for example — and estimates the cost of restoring the oiled landscape and waters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent legislation has beefed up the state’s ability to penalize companies for oil spills: A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB3214\">2020 law doubled the minimum and maximum fines for an array of oil spill violations\u003c/a> and added a provision that a person who knowingly discharged or spilled oil into state waters, or failed to clean up the spill, could be fined up to $1,000 per gallon in spills of more than 1,000 gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2864\">law, from 2018, required the state to consult with agencies\u003c/a> such as the California Coastal Commission when evaluating damage to public resources such as beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coastal Commission already has the authority to fine entities for activities that deny coastal access. A bill that would expand the commission’s ability to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB433\">levy fines for environmental damage\u003c/a> passed the legislature in September and is on the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state needs to send a message to companies that they will be required to pay to clean up after themselves, said state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat from Redondo Beach and the bill’s author. “The state bears so much of the damage and cost associated with these spills,” he said. “This will give the state the tool it needs to hold companies accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How expensive is it?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The price tag for environmental cleanup and fines can be high, although certainly affordable for mega companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After extensive litigation over the 1990 spill in Huntington Beach, several companies, including British Petroleum, Brandenburger Marine and tanker owner Attransco, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-lockyer-announces-16-million-settlement-american-trader-oil\">paid about $27 million\u003c/a> in cleanup costs and damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, a judge issued fines and penalties of $3.35 million against Plains All American Pipeline for \u003ca href=\"https://darrp.noaa.gov/oil-spills/refugio-beach-oil-spill\">the Refugio spill near Santa Barbara\u003c/a>, far less than the $1 billion that prosecutors had sought. In addition, the company pegged its cleanup costs at $335 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other end of that spectrum is the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which killed 11 workers on a drilling rig that spewed 3 million barrels of crude oil across 40,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/bp-paid-a-steep-price-for-the-gulf-oil-spill-but-for-the-us-a-decade-later-its-business-as-usual-136905#:~:text=BP%20paid%20dearly%20for%20the,economic%20claims%20and%20cleanup%20costs.\">British Petroleum finally paid $60 billion\u003c/a> in criminal and civil penalties, environmental damages and cleanup costs. British Petroleum also was fined for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the federal Clean Water Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What has the state done to avoid and prepare for oil spills?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 1990 oil spill off Huntington Beach led to the passage of the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act, \u003ca href=\"https://crrc.unh.edu/sites/crrc.unh.edu/files/media/docs/Workshops/human_dimensions/reading_materials/ospr_information.pdf\">which established the state Oil Spill Prevention and Response agency\u003c/a> under the Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, the oil spill agency created the state’s first comprehensive plan to respond to oil spills, and established a government-wide network of some 22 agencies that share information and responsibility responding to spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature provided money for a $50 million trust fund, whose interest payments support the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The agency also supports wildlife care centers and rescue centers. The first one opened in 1997 at Humboldt State University in Arcata. There are now 12 such centers around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How does this compare to other spills in California?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The largest oil spill in California history was a catalyst for the launch of the American environmental movement and the establishment of the federal Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://aoghs.org/offshore-history/santabarbara-oil-spill/\">1969 blowout at a Union Oil drilling platform\u003c/a> 6 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara spilled 4.2 millions of crude into the water and onto nearby beaches before it was brought under control 11 days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, after the Santa Barbara incident, two oil tankers collided in the mouth of San Francisco Bay, releasing 840,000 gallons of oil into the water. Tides and winds carried the spill north and south along a coastline that served as a critical wintering habitat for aquatic birds. A \u003ca href=\"https://archive.westernfieldornithologists.org/archive/V03/3(2)%20p0025-p0032.pdf\">1972 report by Western Field Ornithologists\u003c/a> estimated 20,000 birds died as a result of exposure to the oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990 Huntington Beach spill, shoreline from Seal Beach south to Newport Beach was coated with oil from the 400,000 gallon spill from the American Trader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the Hong Kong-owned oil tanker Cosco Busan sideswiped a supporting pier of the Bay Bridge in heavy fog. The resulting 100-foot gash released 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, killing an estimated 6,800 birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Refugio State Beach spill, which occurred 24 miles west of Santa Barbara in 2015, was distinctive in that the pipeline rupture occurred onshore, about a mile inland from the beach. The spill sent an estimated 120,000 gallons into a culvert that drained into the Pacific, damaging a rich marine ecosystem of kelp forests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earnings report later that year, Plains All American Pipeline, the Houston-based owner of the pipeline, estimated 142,800 gallons had leaked from the 29-year-old pipe. Emergency response and cleanup costs were estimated at $257 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Don Clyde contributed to this post. Reporting from The Associated Press also was used in this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11891079/the-latest-massive-california-oil-spill-what-you-need-to-know","authors":["byline_news_11891079"],"categories":["news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_27626","news_24221","news_17663","news_3187"],"featImg":"news_11891148","label":"source_news_11891079"},"news_11890998":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11890998","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11890998","score":null,"sort":[1633393947000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"investigators-looking-into-ships-anchor-as-possible-cause-of-southern-california-oil-spill","title":"Investigators Looking Into Ship's Anchor as Possible Cause of Southern California Oil Spill","publishDate":1633393947,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Officials investigating one of California’s largest oil spills are looking into whether a ship's anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing a major leak of crude into coastal waters and fouling beaches, authorities said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the company that operates the pipeline said company divers were inspecting the area of the suspected leak, and he expected to have a much better idea of what caused the damage within a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11890877\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anchor striking the pipeline is “one of the distinct possibilities” behind the leak, Amplify Energy CEO Martyn Willsher said during a news conference. He said divers have examined more than 8,000 feet of pipe and were focusing on “one area of significant interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cargo ships entering the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach routinely pass through the area, Coast Guard officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking into if it could have been an anchor from a ship, but that’s in the assessment phase right now,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jeannie Shaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill sent up to 126,000 gallons of heavy crude into the ocean, contaminating the sands of famed Huntington Beach and other coastal communities. The spill could keep beaches closed for weeks or longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said he has investigators looking into whether he can bring state charges for the spill. Spitzer said his jurisdiction ends 3 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer also said Amplify’s divers should not be allowed near the pipeline without an independent authority alongside them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other potential criminal investigations were being pursued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety advocates have pushed for years for federal rules that would strengthen oil spill detection requirements and force companies to install valves that can automatically shut down the flow of crude in case of a leak. The oil and pipeline industries have resisted such requirements because of the high cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the operator had more valves installed on this line, they’d have a much better chance at having the point of failure isolated by now,” said Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, an organization based in Bellingham, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline was built using a process known as electric resistance weld, according to a regulatory filing from the company. That welding process has been linked to past oil pipeline failures because corrosion can occur along seams, according to Caram and government safety advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists had feared the oil might devastate birds and marine life in the area. But Michael Ziccardi, a veterinarian and director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, said only four oiled birds had been found so far. One suffered chronic injuries and had to be euthanized, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much better than we had feared,” he said at a news conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziccardi said he’s “cautiously optimistic,” but it’s too soon to know the extent of the spill’s effect on wildlife. In other offshore oil spills, the largest number of oiled birds have been collected two to five days after the incident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International Bird Rescue, a Fairfield-based group, sent crews to Huntington Beach to help rescue birds affected by the spill. IBR spokesperson Russ Curtis said a small amount of oil on a bird’s feathers can make it hard for them to regulate their body temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Depending on the water temperature, we often say that there's like a three- or four-day window when they can be rescued safely,\" Curtis said. \"But it just depends on the water temperature and how much oil they have on their body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis said if you see an animal on the beach that needs help, don't try to pick it up or save it yourself. Instead, call the bird rescue center or other wildlife rescue groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11891009 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill2-20211004-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the frame is completely black, oily water with a rocky shore at the top left and a rowboat with two people dressed in white inside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This aerial picture taken on Oct. 4, 2021, shows environmental response crews cleaning up oil that flowed near the Talbert Marsh and Santa Ana River mouth, creating a sheen on the water after an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amplify operates three oil platforms about 9 miles off the coast of California, all installed between 1980 and 1984. The company also operates a 16-inch pipeline that carries oil from a processing platform to an onshore storage facility in Long Beach. The company has said the oil appears to have come from a rupture in that pipeline about 4 miles from the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 spill-response plan submitted to federal regulators, the company said its worst-case spill scenario was based on the assumption of a “full guillotine cut” of the pipeline occurring 3 miles inland from one of its platforms. But an outside consultant concluded that a spill of that size was “very unlikely” at that location because the line is 120 feet deep and beneath a shipping lane where ships do not normally anchor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beta oil field has been owned by at least seven different corporations since it was discovered by Royal Dutch Shell in 1976, records show. A corporate predecessor of Amplify bought the operation in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amplify subsidiary known as Beta Operating Co. has been cited 125 times for safety and environmental violations since 1980, according to a database from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the federal agency that regulates the offshore oil and gas industry. The online database provides only the total number of violations, not the details for each incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was fined a total of $85,000 for three incidents. Two were from 2014, when a worker who was not wearing proper protective equipment was shocked with 98,000 volts of electricity. The worker survived. In a separate incident, crude oil was released through a boom where a safety device had been improperly bypassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, a 1.8-mile undersea pipeline running between two platforms sprang two leaks totaling at least 3,800 gallons of oil, causing tar balls to wash up on beaches in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of of the leaks was determined to be corrosion that caused pin-sized holes in the steel walls of the pipeline. The owner of the oil field at the time, a partnership between the former Mobil Oil Corp., now ExxonMobil, and Shell Oil Co. called Aera Energy LLC, was fined $48,000 by federal regulators — a penalty environmental groups criticized as a slap on the wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the spill, Amplify had high hopes for the Beta oil field and was pouring millions of dollars into upgrades and new “side track” projects that would tap into oil by drilling laterally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to keep going for as long as we want,” Willsher said in an August conference call with investors. He added there was capacity “up to 20,000 barrels a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors shared Willsher’s optimism, sending the company's stock up more than sevenfold since the beginning of the year to $5.75 at the close of trading on Friday. The stock plunged more than 40% in morning trading Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and emerged a few months later. It had been using cash generated by the Beta Field and other fields in Oklahoma and Texas to pay down $235 million in debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writers Michael Biesecker in Washington, Bernard Condon in New York, Felicia Fonseca in Phoenix, Julie Walker in New York, Matthew Brown in Billings, Montana, and Stefanie Dazio in Huntington Beach, California, contributed to this report. KQED's Shehreen Karim contributed reporting to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The head of the company that operates the pipeline said company divers were inspecting the area of the suspected leak, and he expected to have a much better idea what caused the damage within a day.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1633542515,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1335},"headData":{"title":"Investigators Looking Into Ship's Anchor as Possible Cause of Southern California Oil Spill | KQED","description":"The head of the company that operates the pipeline said company divers were inspecting the area of the suspected leak, and he expected to have a much better idea what caused the damage within a day.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Investigators Looking Into Ship's Anchor as Possible Cause of Southern California Oil Spill","datePublished":"2021-10-05T00:32:27.000Z","dateModified":"2021-10-06T17:48:35.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11890998 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11890998","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/10/04/investigators-looking-into-ships-anchor-as-possible-cause-of-southern-california-oil-spill/","disqusTitle":"Investigators Looking Into Ship's Anchor as Possible Cause of Southern California Oil Spill","nprByline":"Amy Taxin and Christopher Weber\u003cbr>Associated Press","path":"/news/11890998/investigators-looking-into-ships-anchor-as-possible-cause-of-southern-california-oil-spill","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Officials investigating one of California’s largest oil spills are looking into whether a ship's anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing a major leak of crude into coastal waters and fouling beaches, authorities said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the company that operates the pipeline said company divers were inspecting the area of the suspected leak, and he expected to have a much better idea of what caused the damage within a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11890877","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anchor striking the pipeline is “one of the distinct possibilities” behind the leak, Amplify Energy CEO Martyn Willsher said during a news conference. He said divers have examined more than 8,000 feet of pipe and were focusing on “one area of significant interest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cargo ships entering the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach routinely pass through the area, Coast Guard officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking into if it could have been an anchor from a ship, but that’s in the assessment phase right now,” Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jeannie Shaye said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill sent up to 126,000 gallons of heavy crude into the ocean, contaminating the sands of famed Huntington Beach and other coastal communities. The spill could keep beaches closed for weeks or longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said he has investigators looking into whether he can bring state charges for the spill. Spitzer said his jurisdiction ends 3 miles offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spitzer also said Amplify’s divers should not be allowed near the pipeline without an independent authority alongside them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other potential criminal investigations were being pursued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety advocates have pushed for years for federal rules that would strengthen oil spill detection requirements and force companies to install valves that can automatically shut down the flow of crude in case of a leak. The oil and pipeline industries have resisted such requirements because of the high cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the operator had more valves installed on this line, they’d have a much better chance at having the point of failure isolated by now,” said Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, an organization based in Bellingham, Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pipeline was built using a process known as electric resistance weld, according to a regulatory filing from the company. That welding process has been linked to past oil pipeline failures because corrosion can occur along seams, according to Caram and government safety advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists had feared the oil might devastate birds and marine life in the area. But Michael Ziccardi, a veterinarian and director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, said only four oiled birds had been found so far. One suffered chronic injuries and had to be euthanized, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s much better than we had feared,” he said at a news conference Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ziccardi said he’s “cautiously optimistic,” but it’s too soon to know the extent of the spill’s effect on wildlife. In other offshore oil spills, the largest number of oiled birds have been collected two to five days after the incident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International Bird Rescue, a Fairfield-based group, sent crews to Huntington Beach to help rescue birds affected by the spill. IBR spokesperson Russ Curtis said a small amount of oil on a bird’s feathers can make it hard for them to regulate their body temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Depending on the water temperature, we often say that there's like a three- or four-day window when they can be rescued safely,\" Curtis said. \"But it just depends on the water temperature and how much oil they have on their body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curtis said if you see an animal on the beach that needs help, don't try to pick it up or save it yourself. Instead, call the bird rescue center or other wildlife rescue groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11891009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11891009 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/oil-spill2-20211004-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Most of the frame is completely black, oily water with a rocky shore at the top left and a rowboat with two people dressed in white inside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This aerial picture taken on Oct. 4, 2021, shows environmental response crews cleaning up oil that flowed near the Talbert Marsh and Santa Ana River mouth, creating a sheen on the water after an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amplify operates three oil platforms about 9 miles off the coast of California, all installed between 1980 and 1984. The company also operates a 16-inch pipeline that carries oil from a processing platform to an onshore storage facility in Long Beach. The company has said the oil appears to have come from a rupture in that pipeline about 4 miles from the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 spill-response plan submitted to federal regulators, the company said its worst-case spill scenario was based on the assumption of a “full guillotine cut” of the pipeline occurring 3 miles inland from one of its platforms. But an outside consultant concluded that a spill of that size was “very unlikely” at that location because the line is 120 feet deep and beneath a shipping lane where ships do not normally anchor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Beta oil field has been owned by at least seven different corporations since it was discovered by Royal Dutch Shell in 1976, records show. A corporate predecessor of Amplify bought the operation in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Amplify subsidiary known as Beta Operating Co. has been cited 125 times for safety and environmental violations since 1980, according to a database from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, the federal agency that regulates the offshore oil and gas industry. The online database provides only the total number of violations, not the details for each incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company was fined a total of $85,000 for three incidents. Two were from 2014, when a worker who was not wearing proper protective equipment was shocked with 98,000 volts of electricity. The worker survived. In a separate incident, crude oil was released through a boom where a safety device had been improperly bypassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1999, a 1.8-mile undersea pipeline running between two platforms sprang two leaks totaling at least 3,800 gallons of oil, causing tar balls to wash up on beaches in Orange County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cause of of the leaks was determined to be corrosion that caused pin-sized holes in the steel walls of the pipeline. The owner of the oil field at the time, a partnership between the former Mobil Oil Corp., now ExxonMobil, and Shell Oil Co. called Aera Energy LLC, was fined $48,000 by federal regulators — a penalty environmental groups criticized as a slap on the wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the spill, Amplify had high hopes for the Beta oil field and was pouring millions of dollars into upgrades and new “side track” projects that would tap into oil by drilling laterally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the opportunity to keep going for as long as we want,” Willsher said in an August conference call with investors. He added there was capacity “up to 20,000 barrels a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investors shared Willsher’s optimism, sending the company's stock up more than sevenfold since the beginning of the year to $5.75 at the close of trading on Friday. The stock plunged more than 40% in morning trading Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company filed for bankruptcy in 2017 and emerged a few months later. 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