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Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefs

  • Written by Ann Scarborough Bull, Visiting Researcher, Marine Science institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefsA school of juvenile bocaccio in the midwaters of Platform Gilda, Santa Barbara Channel, Calif.Scott Gietler, CC BY-ND

Offshore oil and gas drilling has been a contentious issue in California for 50 years, ever since a rig ruptured and spilled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil off Santa Barbara in 1969. Today it’s spurring a new debate:...

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