Friday, April 11, 2008

Oil Firm Can Drill Off the Santa Barbara Coast for 10 Years, In Return For Giving Up Land and Shutting Down Completely (LA Times, 4/11/08)

"A Houston oil company has agreed to shut down its offshore oil production off Santa Barbara County decades early in exchange for approval this year to drill into untapped undersea reserves and cash in on the nation's record oil prices."

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-oil11apr11,1,5565151,full.story