Published 3 years ago

'Environmental catastrophe' after massive oil spill in waters off California

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An estimated 126,000 gallons (572,807 liters) of heavy crude leaked into the water. Some birds and fish were caught in the muck and died. Booms were deployed on the ocean surface Sunday to try to contain the oil. The city and state beaches at Huntington Beach were closed.

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Times of India

california: California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands

US News: CALIFORNIA: A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, in what local offi.

3 years ago·India

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BBC News

Huntington Beach: California oil spill sparks concern for wildlife

The spill has been described by one official as a potential ecological disaster.

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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Yahoo News

Huntington Beach mayor calls California oil spill 'environmental catastrophe'

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) -A large oil spill off the southern California coast was described as an "environmental catastrophe" by the mayor of Huntington Beach on Sunday, as the breach of an oil rig pipeline left dead fish and birds strewn on the sand and offshore wetlands clogged with oil. An estimated 126,000 gallons, or 3,000 barrels, had spread into an oil slick covering about 13 square miles of the Pacific Ocean since it was first…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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The Guardian

California oil spill fouls beaches and kills wildlife – video

A large oil spill off the coast of Southern California has killed wildlife and fouled beaches along the Orange county coast. At least 126,000 gallons (572,807 litres) spilled into the waters after oil leaked from a broken pipeline connected to an offshore rig‘There’s tar everywhere’: large California oil spill fouls beaches and kills wildlifeContinue reading...

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Independent

Dead birds and fish washing up on California beach after massive oil spill

Huntington Beach Mayor calls the major oil spill a ‘potential ecologic disaster’

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Investigators probing cause of major California offshore oil spill

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. - Federal and state investigators on Monday were probing what caused some 126,000 barrels of crude oil to leak into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California. Huntington Beach, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Los Angeles, was hit hardest with some 13 square miles (34 square km) of ocean and portions of its coastline "covered in oil," said Mayor Kim

3 years ago·United Kingdom

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