The vote sets the stage for a potentially high-stakes test of the state’s power to police oil development along the coast. The onshore pipeline in Gaviota gushed more than 100,000 gallons of crude oil onto coastal land and ocean waters, shutting down fisheries, closing beaches and harming marine life and coastal habitats in 2015.
Sable Offshore Corp., a Houston-based company, purchased the pipeline from the previous owners, Exxon Mobil, last year, and is seeking to restart the Santa Ynez offshore oil operation.
The Coastal Commission said Sable has done something no alleged violator has ever done before: ignoring the agency’s multiple cease-and-desist orders and continuing its work.
lol 18 millions, pocket change for them, cost of business
Plus, that being record breaking is fucking laughable.
The subsidies that oil companies receive are in the 6 trillion range as far as I can tell from a quick search.
They are destroying all of our livelyhood, globally, and are not only getting effectively zero consequences, but are getting payed substantially from our own tax dollars to do so.
A drop in the bucket. Make it 18 trillion next time.
I grew up visiting those beaches.
I didn’t realize until I left the area (why would you vacation at a different beach when you have the beach at home?) that tar balls and rinsing your feet with gasoline at the end of the day, were not normal beach visiting activities.
Just hire your own crew, undo their work, send them the bill and the fine.
They’re most likely waiting out their time 'till Trump comes with a decree where he allows it, untill then they pay the fines and shrug it off.
