Print friendly
E-mail story
Tip Us Off
Comments
Share Article
Facebook
Twitter
Google+1
del.icio.us.
Digg!
Yahoo! Buzz
Diigo
google
newsvine
reddit
technorati
Yahoo!
MyspaceGreka Energy, the area oil company whose facilities have been responsible for a number of spills in recent years, was on the hook for yet another incident this morning, May 24.
According to County Fire Department spokesperson Capt. David Sadecki, authorities at 9:16 a.m. responded to a reported oil spill at the Greka Oil Lease at 6151 Dominion Road in Santa Maria. County Fire arrived to the scene, he said, with two engines, a battalion chief, and a hazardous materials inspector.
Around 250 barrels of produced water (a byproduct of the drilling process) mixed with crude oil spilled out of a tank that had overflowed. That figure comes from a a Hazardous Materials Spill Report submitted to the Calfornia Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA). Noting that spill amounts are hard to initially measure, Sadecki stated that it is the responsibility of the spiller to provide accurate information. Representatives from Greka, the Department of Fish and Game, and County Petroleum are on the scene and a vacuum truck is being used to mop up the mess. The spill caused no known environmental impact, said Sadecki.
Previous Month
Comments
Is Assembly Candidate Mike Stoker still a Greka spokesman; and running around with former FBI agents asserting that someone is causing these spills.
DonMcDermott (anonymous profile)
May 25, 2010 at 6:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe it's true, Don. Environazis have been known to engage in various criminal acts to make their point. E.g. damaging dozens of Hummers at a car dealer in Westlake.
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
May 25, 2010 at 8:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Is this what Huasna residents and the Nipomo Watershed recipients have to look forward to if oil drilling is allowed to take place there?
Hearhere (anonymous profile)
May 25, 2010 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow, only two comments in and Godwin's Law has already been invoked. Nice work, JL!
tegrat (anonymous profile)
May 25, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. (Suggest removal)
lol, it's not invoking Godwin's Law when that is what they are called.. but I doubt anybody who is doing it is actually a well intentioned environmentalist, more like a provocateur and probably from a government agency.
I think it is interesting that days after Obama announced plans for offshore drilling.................................kabooom.........
I mean, the green movement is co-opted by the elite, afterall. Trying to convince everybody that CO2 is bad for the environment.. plants love CO2, it isn't poisonous. The green movement should be focused on harmful pollutants and not be caught up in some scheme to create another multibillion dollar investment vehicle (cap and trade) for corporations to get rich off of. I'm sick of well intentioned liberal legislation being hijacked by lobbyists from corporations.. let's just have government do what it was intended, protect the rights of individuals and their property against theft, injury and fraud.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
May 26, 2010 at 1:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
After reading loonpt's and the enlightened John Locke's comments; and given certain current and pending environmental disasters, all I can respond with is that I think the we need to evaluate who the environazis really are and I think we are have wrongfully imprisoned the wrong people.
DonMcDermott (anonymous profile)
May 26, 2010 at 5:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I think the space alien lizards are trying to warm the planet for the big take over with all the 'sabotage' and 'spills' currently underway, no?
in other words, it's about time these guys took some responsibility. They can't hold a glass of water without spilling it.
spacey (anonymous profile)
May 26, 2010 at 11:03 a.m. (Suggest removal)