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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
A 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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