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The spill affected visitors to both public and private facilities in the area. The state closed heavily used El Capitán State Beach for a month, which was finally reopened on June 26 for camping and day use. [51] Refugio State Beach was more heavily damaged and did not reopen until July 17, 2015. [52]
One of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast, it is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of El Capitán State Beach. The Refugio oil spill occurred just north of the park in 2015 when a pipeline carrying crude oil ruptured. The spill went into a culvert that ran under US 101 and into the ocean. The spill spread over 7 miles (11 km) of coastline ...
Plans to restart a pipeline in Santa Barbara County have angered residents worried about an oil spill similar to the massive one near Refugio State Beach in 2015.
An offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away ...
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Shell Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Brutus offshore platform United States, Gulf of Mexico, near Louisiana: 12 May 2016: 316: 316: Royal Dutch Shell [89] Keystone Pipeline 2016 spill United States, Menno, South Dakota: 2 April 2016: 55: 55: TransCanada Corporation [90] Refugio oil spill United States, California, near Refugio State Beach: 19 May ...
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago (Reuters) -Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak from a capsized barge remains unplugged, according to first responders ...
The most easterly of three state parks along the Gaviota Coast, it is located about 20 miles (32 km) west of downtown Santa Barbara, in Santa Barbara County. The beach is named for José Francisco Ortega, who retired from the Spanish Army in 1795 with the rank of captain and received the Rancho Nuestra Señora del Refugio as a land grant. [1] [2]