Word: santas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term ecological consequences which are distinctly harmful. We must make sure, therefore, that our concern with the environment will keep pace with our technical capabilities. Human activities -whether by neglect or by accident or by intent-are constantly damaging the environment: Lake Erie might be called exhibit A; the Santa Barbara oil disaster, exhibit B; and there are many more examples. In addition, subtle changes are taking place in our atmosphere and oceans-with far-reaching but little-understood effects; e.g., on the Earth's climate. Solutions to these questions demand the best efforts of scientists from every discipline...
Though detergents and chemicals were used initially at Santa Barbara, by last week the practice had been abandoned. Part of the reason was that the various processes proved ineffective. But in their zeal to restore the beauty of Santa Barbara's beaches-some valued at $2,000 a front foot-crews incurred the ire of conservationists by steam-cleaning the rocks, thereby cooking marine life that had escaped...
...Santa Barbara disaster. Nixon also told the panel "to produce far more stringent and effective regulations" so that "crises of this kind will not recur...
California's attorney general, meanwhile, was preparing two suits for over $100 million each against the Federal Government and Union Oil for damage to wildlife and the shore line. Private suits, such as the one filed in Santa Barbara Superior Court for over $1 billion, may well be joined with the state action...
More immediately troublesome to Union was the claim that it had seriously underreported the quantity spilled by the eleven-day gusher. Alan Allen, an engineer for General Research Corp. of Santa Barbara, meticulously plotted the spread and flow of the oil. Union had said that the crude escaped at the rate of 500 bbl. per day. By Allen's calculations, which he calls "ridiculously conservative," the ruptured well was spewing out at least...