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Archive Home > 2008 > August > 03 > Has offshore drilling gotten cleaner?

Has offshore drilling gotten cleaner?

With modern technology, it has, some government and industry officials say

By Bob Keefe / The Bulletin
August 3, 2008

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — What sticks in Charlie Eckberg’s mind about that horrible January of 1969 was how the mighty Pacific went silent.

Oil from a blowout under a drilling platform six miles offshore made the water so thick and heavy that the crashing surf Eckberg was used....

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