CALIFORNIA OIL - A NEW BEGINNING

CALIFORNIA OIL

We at SOS California have seen many changes in the last year. We saw great opportunities - collaboration with a local social media powerhouse leading to a revamp of our website; a re-invitation to testify to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. But we felt a devastating blow - the loss of Co-Founder Bruce Allen. 

 

Spring is a season of renewal, though, so in that spirit, SOS California would like to reintroduce you to our blog, California Oil.

 

There is an old saying - that anything worth saying is worth saying twice. Maybe, I just made that up...

 

you will see some re-posting, but you'll see lots of new information as well. And, more than anything - WE WANT YOUR COMMENTS.

 

LET'S START THAT ENERGY CONVERSATION!!!

 

IT’S SO UNUSUAL

Santa Barbara, California is an unusual place.  Those of us who live here have chosen this place because we know this.  First there is the unusual beauty – an astonishing confluence of mountains and sea, on an east-west trending coastline in a southern state. This unusual geology also contributes to another interesting undersea phenomenon – natural oil seeps. The Santa Barbara Channel has the second largest natural oil seeps in the world – second only to the Caspian Sea. 

Oil released in large quantities by accident is considered pollution.  What, then, about oil seeps?  They are natural. In fact, it is estimated that the volume of oil emitted each year is equivalent to that of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil blowout, and every four years it approximates the oil spilled in connection with the Exxon Valdez accident.  Are these seeps a source of pollution?

We at Stop Oil Seeps (SOS) California believe that seep pollution, while it occurs naturally, is still simply that -- pollution -- and that there is a solution that falls into that “unusual” category.

Please stay tuned for future posts - and check out our revamped website:
http://www.soscalifornia.org/