ExxonMobil plans to reactivate a ruptured pipeline that caused a 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County.
Environmentalists and groups tasked with protecting the Central California coastline are celebrating a small victory as Pacific Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, announced it will withdraw its application to build a new pipeline that would allow the oil giant to restart offshore drilling in Santa Barbara County.
“At this stage of the climate crisis, building new oil infrastructure is reckless, to say the least,” Maggie Hall, deputy chief counsel at the Environmental Defense Center, said in the statement. “However, restarting a corroded and compromised pipeline that already caused one massive oil spill is even worse. There is no way for the pipeline owners to credibly claim it will be safe.
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