[Southern California Permaculture] June 14/KCRW/Let's Talk About Refugio/Oil Spill One Year Later

Tue May 31 21:42:10 PDT 2016

Let's Talk About Refugio - sponsored by KCRW Public Radio
June 14 @ 6:00 pm - 8:15 pm

Center Stage Theater
Paseo Nuevo Shopping Center/Upstairs
Santa Barbara, CA

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A year ago, a corroded pipe operated by Plains 
All-American burst along the Gaviota Coast, a 
pristine coastline west of Santa Barbara. It 
released a river of crude oil into a creek that 
empties into the ocean at Refugio State Beach. 
The beach may be cleaned up, but the story of the 
Refugio oil spill is not over.

Join KCRW’s 
<http://www.kcrw.com/people/jonathan-bastian>Jonathan 
Bastian as he leads a lively discussion with 
local environmental and oil experts on major 
issues like criminal and civil liability, 
wildlife restoration, pipeline regulation and the 
future of oil production along the Central Coast. Jonathan will be joined by:

David Valentine – UCSB Professor

Valentine is Professor of Earth Science and 
Biology at UCSB, where he has served on the 
faculty since 2001. Valentine’s research 
interests focus on the interface of chemistry, 
microbiology and the oceans, on which he has 
published over 85 papers, three books and one 
patent.  He worked extensively on the Deepwater 
Horizon disaster, serving on scene as a 
scientific responder, and then to assess damages 
to natural resources in the deep ocean.  He also 
responded to the Refugio spill, both conducting 
independent research and as an adviser to the 
responding agencies. Valentine has participated 
in over thirty oceanographic expeditions, 
including more than 25 dives in the submarine 
Alvin, is a fellow of the Aldo Leopold program, 
and recently participated in a panel of the 
National Academy of Sciences reporting on the 
environmental effect of pipeline spills of diluted bitumen.

Linda Krop – Chief Counsel at the Environmental Defense Center

Krop has worked at the EDC as a staff attorney 
since 1989 and as Chief Counsel since 1999. Her 
specialties include fighting offshore oil and gas 
development, protecting natural resources, and 
preserving open space lands. Krop’s successes 
include the unprecedented termination of 40 
federal oil and gas leases offshore California, 
defeat of several specific oil drilling projects, 
and preservation of important areas for public 
access and ecological protection, including 
Hearst Ranch, Ellwood, Carpinteria Bluffs and 
Sedgwick Ranch. She represented the conservation 
community on the Channel Islands National Marine 
Sanctuary Advisory Council from 1998-2013, and 
teaches Environmental Law at UCSB.

Joe Armendariz – Executive Director of the Santa 
Barbara County Taxpayers Association and the 
Santa Barbara Technology & Industry Association

As a business, government, and political leader, 
Armendariz has engaged in local public policy 
advocacy on topics including domestic oil and gas 
development, county fiscal issues and land use 
policy. He’s testified many times before the 
County Board of Supervisors, the State Lands 
Commission, the California Coastal Commission, 
the California Legislature, and the Federal 
Department of Interior’s Minerals Management 
Service. Last year, his association funded a 
report on the economic impacts of the Plains All American Pipeline Shutdown.

What questions do you still have? 
<http://curious.kcrw.com/2016/05/one-year-later-what-questions-do-you-still-have-about-the-refugio-oil-spill>Ask 
them here, and we will try and answer on June 14.

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