Environmentalists, as well as a local congressman, bemoaned the environmental damage caused by Saturday’s offshore oil spill impacting Huntington Beach, and said the incident underscored the urgency to accelerate closure of the 27 platforms in waters off the California coast.
“It’s undoubtedly going to have an impact on marine life, beaches and the ability to use the beaches,” said Chad Nelsen, CEO of the Surfrider Foundation. “I do think they will do everything they can to minimize the impacts.
“But the reality is oil infrastructure fails, no matter how careful we try to be. The real answer here is to get off fossil fuels if we want to see these impacts go away. It’s an unfortunate reality when we are moving oil around.”
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Oil spill underscores urgency to shut wells, environmentalists say