{"id":8693,"date":"2015-06-01T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2015-06-01T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T10:52:00","slug":"louisiana-environmental-group-warns-santa-barbara-oil-spill-cleanup-workers-to-protect-their-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8693","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Environmental Group Warns Santa Barbara Oil Spill Cleanup Workers to Protect Their Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/05\/31\/louisiana-environmental-group-warns-santa-barbara-oil-spill-cleanup-workers-protect-their-health\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Environmental Group Warns Santa Barbara Oil Spill Cleanup Workers to Protect Their Health<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/blog_teaser\/public\/blogimages\/IMG_2583.jpg?itok=_JRhq4e8\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leanweb.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=7a05af7f784181a1f508c9d12&amp;id=ecf77af3e0&amp;e=a4af46fea6\" target=\"_blank\">open letter<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leanweb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Environmental Action Network<\/a>\u00a0(<span class=\"caps\">LEAN<\/span>) and the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper\u00a0advises\u00a0those\u00a0affected by the\u00a0Santa Barbara\u00a0Plains\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/05\/20\/state-of-emergency-105000-gallons-oil-spill-santa-barbara-plains-all-american-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\">All American Pipeline\u00a0spill<\/a>\u00a0not\u00a0to\u00a0participate in the clean-up\u00a0effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not want to see\u00a0your citizens&#8217;, workers&#8217;, and volunteers&#8217; health harmed in the way we have seen it damaged along our Gulf Coast after the 2010\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">BP<\/span>\u00a0oil disaster,\u201d the letter\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<p>But the\u00a0warning\u00a0may be too late to help some like Osiris Casta\u00f1eda, a father, ocean lover and filmmaking professor who cleaned up a stretch of Santa Barbara County beach with other volunteers on May 20, the day after a\u00a0Plains\u00a0Pipeline spilled an\u00a0estimated\u00a0101,000 gallons of oil\u00a0into the Pacific\u00a0Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>A video Casta\u00f1eda produced with the Youth CineMedia Inc, documents a confrontation between the volunteers and officials who ordered them to leave or face being fined or possibly arrested. An official provided a number for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlife.ca.gov\/ospr\" target=\"_blank\">office of spill prevention and response<\/a>\u00a0, which was giving out passes to volunteers, and told them without the passes they were forbidden to be on the beach.\u00a0The volunteers called to get passes but, to the group\u2019s dismay, a representative from the agency told them no volunteers were\u00a0needed.<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Environmental Group Warns Santa Barbara Oil Spill Cleanup Workers to Protect Their Health An\u00a0open letter\u00a0from the\u00a0Louisiana Environmental Action Network\u00a0(LEAN) and the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper\u00a0advises\u00a0those\u00a0affected by the\u00a0Santa Barbara\u00a0Plains\u00a0All American Pipeline\u00a0spill\u00a0not\u00a0to\u00a0participate in the clean-up\u00a0effort. \u201cWe do not want to see\u00a0your citizens&#8217;, workers&#8217;, and volunteers&#8217; health harmed in the way we have seen it damaged along our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5557,5928,5929,395,2034,1523,628,5559],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-all-american","tag-bp-oil-disaster","tag-gulf-coast","tag-health","tag-louisiana","tag-oil-spill","tag-pipeline","tag-santa-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}