I took time on Jan. 27 to travel to Santa Barbara and attend the 50 Years After the Santa Barbara Oil Spill: A Call to Action event at the Arlington Theater, thinking I might learn something. Sadly, I watched a spectacle that evolved into a We Hate President Trump Festival. Speaker after speaker condemned various […]
Steven L. Rebuck
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Otters get all the awards
San Luis Obispo
Well, it’s almost spring, and awards for the most important animal in the ocean are being given out again. And the winner is: The sea otter! But of course, the sea otter wins every year. First, Toola died. The surrogate sea otter mom from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Sympathy Award. Next, white sharks are munching […]
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Resume drilling
San Luis Obispo
There was a time when I would have agreed with many concerns about offshore oil drilling and collection, but that was long ago. The attacks of 9/11 require re-evaluating the subject. I once worked for commercial fishermen who had their gear run over by seismic survey boats, who could not fish due to displacement, and […]