© www.ooyuz.comEstimated 700 barrels of crude oil spills from broken pipeline.
The leak from a pipeline in Hall Canyon in Prince Barranca valley was first identified around 5:30am. Initial reports relayed inflated estimates of 210,000 gallons spilling from 5,000 barrels, but the Ventura County Fire Department confirmed the spill was smaller.
UPDATE: The oil flowed into a gorge called Prince Barranca, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. The Barranca has a debris catch basin that allowed the crude oil to pool into it instead of flowing to the ocean. While the leak is not considered an environmental threat, department spokesman Mike Lindbery said that air quality is being monitored.
© unknownEmergency responders work on the spill.
"Sierra Club praises the immediate action by Ventura's first responders, but as we all know too well, there is no way to clean up all the destruction caused by crude oil spills," the environmental advocacy group said in a statement.
Oil company Aera Energy shut off the affected pipeline owned by Crimson Pipeline, but some oil still in the line continues to ooze out. Aera is a natural gas producer, transporting about 13,000 barrels to nearby oil refineries every day. Crimson Pipeline owns an estimated 1,000 miles of pipeline in Southern California counties Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura, as well as some Northern California counties.
In May of last year, over 120,000 gallons of spilled oil slicked up parts of the ocean near Santa Barbara County, killing birds and sea lions.
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Oh yeah... The entire centralized government is full of puppets who do what they are told while acting like they are part of a left or right. They make the rules to protect ground petroleum, big pharma, industrial food, consolidated energy production and more by keeping up the chaos that requires a "war on drugs"... Even though this particular form of cannabis can't get anyone high...
The whole system is a sham centered around enriching a highly connected few and any followers who play their game of greed and consumption.