Word: californiaisms
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Almost as worrisome to conservationists were the chemicals dropped from planes and boats to disperse and dissolve the slick. Botanist Michael Neushul of the University of California recalled the 1957 breakup off Baja California of the tanker Tampico, which dumped 59,000 barrels of diesel oil into the Pacific and "utterly impoverished animal life" in the area for five years. In 1967, when the Torrey Canyon-carrying crude-spilled 100,000 tons into the English Channel, 90% of the animal loss was caused by detergents used to clean up the oil. As for Santa Barbara, Neushul figures that such grazing...
...that led to a tremendous buildup of pressure. The expanding mass widened a fissure, and the released gas and oil bubbled and boiled through the crack and up 700 ft. to the surface. Essentially, when the fateful fissure occurred, Union was operating below regular federal-and far below California-standards...
While known in Southern California as "the go-go company," Union also has picked up something of a reputation as a polluter. Only two weeks ago, the company was accused of dumping 1,500 barrels of crude into the Santa Ana River after a mud slide broke a pipeline. Twice in 1967, the company was brought up on violations of California fish and game statutes for polluting Los Angeles harbor. Indeed, its competitors complain that Union is giving the industry a bad name. After the disaster, representatives of oil companies operating rigs off Santa Barbara met quietly to decide...
...seal the well off Santa Barbara with concrete, making it finally as dead as the multitude of creatures, from sea urchins to seals, that it had doomed. Facing Union was a brace of lawsuits, notably one for $1.3 billion on behalf of all damaged parties, and another by California's attorney general. During eleven days, the well had spouted more than 200 thousand gallons. Drilling will doubtless resume quickly, but it may take years before the ecological balance of Santa Barbara bay is restored...
...taped program was in full color, and it pre-empted prime-time TV shows ?from Lost in Space to The Lucy Show ?throughout California. The star was that old TV steady, Ronald Reagan, and he had a new sponsor: a Reagan fan club called Californians for a Creative Society, which picked up the $20,000 tab "in the interest of an informed citizenry." What he had to say was news to a lot of people, including most state legislators, who for the first time learned from the tube what the Governor would later ask them to enact...