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ExxonMobil Seeks to Restart Three Offshore Platforms & Transport Oil by Tanker Truck

Betsy Weber September 14, 2021 Our Stories, Santa Barbara Channel, Santa Barbara Oil & Gas

Tasked with the quest to analyze ExxonMobil’s proposal to restart offshore platforms (shut down since the 2015 Plains Pipeline spill that devastated the coastline) and truck oil along our precious coast, we set off on a collective years-long journey riddled with unrest at the thought of a significant increase in the amount of oil tanker trucks in our community. It truly baffles us that there is a proposition to extract oil, then use trucks—that need oil to move—as a transportation method. It seems like a get one fish hook unstuck by using another fish hook type of situation.

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The Start of the Movement

Betsy Weber January 28, 2017 EDC News, Our Stories, Santa Barbara Channel, Santa Barbara Oil & Gas

Forty-eight years ago today, on the morning of January 28, 1969, five miles offshore Summerland at Oil Platform A, something went terribly wrong: the well blew out. As oil began seeping up from the bottom of the ocean floor, so began one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history.

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