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Hekate

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2. I've lived in Goleta since 1979; my husband since 1964. He remembers the oil spill well...
Tue May 2, 2017, 03:34 AM
May 2017

I just know that the oil companies have never ceased to apply pressure on the County of Santa Barbara and the State of California to try to get their own way. The beauty of this coast, the desires of all the people who live here and visit here, the lives of sea animals, fish, and birds -- they mean less than zero to Big Oil.

The people of Santa Barbara have never ceased to fight back. It makes me so proud to live here.

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