HUGE OIL SPILL!

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On Monday December 8th, 2008 more than 27 barrels of oil, 1,134 gallons, leaked from the drilling plaform A in the Santa Barbara Channel. According to Singleton, the spokeswoman for the state Department of Fish and Game's Office of Spill Prevention and Reponse, no oiled seabirds have been sighted. She stated, "Sometimes oiled birds are not spotted until they wash ashore, dead or dying because the oil has ruined their ability to keep warm." The leak was the result of a finger-sized hole that was reported at 8 am on Sunday. Company officials were un willing to comment.

Pedro Nava, a state assemblyman D-Santa Barbara, said "This spill is another reminder that the calls for increased drilling in our coastal waters are short-sighted and unnecessary. There is no need for more coastal drilling. We must do everything necessary to prevent a larger catastrophe in the future." Rep. Lois Capps, D-California, said the spill was a reminder that authorities must be vigilant in protecting the coastline. Capps also said, "Yesterday [Monday] — at the same location as the infamous 1969 oil spill nearly 40 years ago — we had yet another painful reminder that drilling for oil is a dirty and dangerous business."

This event was comparatively small to the previous leak in the same location that occured in 1969. This previous infamous spill unleashed 200,000 gallons of oil across 800 square miles, causing the blackening of 35 miles of coastline and the death of thousands of birds and fish.

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