Pipeline Owner in Santa Barbara Oil Spill Has Had 175 Spill Incidents Since 2006

Photo of oil on Santa Barbara beach courtesy U.S. Coast Guard.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—(ENEWSPF)–May 21, 2015.  The company that owns the pipeline involved in Tuesday’s major oil spill in Santa Barbara has had 175 incidents (mostly oil spills) nationwide since 2006, including 11 in California, according to a Center for Biological Diversity analysis of federal documents.

Plains Pipeline (a subsidiary of Plains All-American Pipeline) has also had federal enforcement actions initiated against it 20 times…