Essays Tagged: "1969 Santa Barbara oil spill"
Report of the Santa Barbara Oil Spill of 1969.
Tuesday, January 29, 1969 began as a normal work day on Unions Oil's Platform Alpha off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif ... and natural gas to pollute the waters in the twelve days that it took workers to control the leaks (1969 Oil Spill, para. 7). In what the Los Angeles Time in 1989 called "the worst oil spill in the na ... illing companies. Volunteers gather 100,000 signatures for a petition to ban offshore oil drilling (1969 Oil Spill, para. 12). Volunteers also established an emergency bird treatment center at the San ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geology & Geosciences