Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at santa barbara channel.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Santa Barbara Channel.
Examples
-
The legislation, enacted after a Union Oil blowout that spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, remains one of the nation's toughest environmental laws.
How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure 2010
-
In 1969, a blowout on a drilling platform in the Santa Barbara Channel released more than 3 million gallons of oil into the ocean.
-
The legislation, enacted after a Union Oil blowout that spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, remains one of the nation's toughest environmental laws.
How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure 2010
-
In 1969, a blowout on a drilling platform in the Santa Barbara Channel released more than 3 million gallons of oil into the ocean.
-
It took ten days to plug, during which 100,000 barrels of crude oil poured into the Santa Barbara Channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara.
-
The legislation, enacted after a Union Oil blowout that spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, remains one of the nation's toughest environmental laws.
How the Minerals Management Service's partnership with industry led to failure 2010
-
First of all, there's natural seepage in the Santa Barbara Channel every day.
-
English explorer, George Vancouver, in his exploration of the Pacific Coast in 1792 while looking for the Northwest Passage, noted in his log book that the Santa Barbara Channel was covered in all directions with an oily surface so thick that the entire sea took on an iridescent hue.
-
Natural oil seepage in the Santa Barbara Channel was first recorded by Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on Oct. 16, 1542.
-
The offices of his three-year-old firm, Clipper Windpower, look across the tranquil Santa Barbara Channel and, in the distance, to the remote marine sanctuary of Santa Cruz Island.
A MIGHTIER WIND 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.