Web Report: Protecting California From Oil Spills

(Sacramento) – San Francisco Bay Area Assembly Democrats have a package of legislation moving through the capitol designed to reduce the chances of oil spills, improve the response if there is an oil spill and restore the damage to the environment caused by any oil spills.  The package of nine bills also has the support of lawmakers from Southern California coastal areas and inland areas because oil spills are not just a San Francisco Bay Area problem. Here’s more on the Assembly Democrat’s Oil Spill Prevention, Response and Restoration package in this Assembly Web Report.

Web Report: Assembly Democrats Introduce Legislative Package to Protect San Francisco Bay

(Sacramento) – San Francisco Bay Area Assembly Democrats have introduced a package of legislative measures in the wake of the recent oil spill that marred San Francisco Bay. As we learn in this Assembly Web Report the series of legislative solutions will reduce the threat of any future oil spills, improve the response and clean up efforts if an oil spill occurs and will protect San Francisco Bay from potentially dangerous cargo moving though the Bay. Additional information on the Assembly Democrat's oil spill related legislation can be found here.

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Source: United States Coast Guard

Meghan McNertney of Larkspur tends to a Surf Scoter, a duck that lives in the surf, she rescued from the shore of Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, covered in oil that spilled from the damaged container ship in SF Bay. After the collision of the Cosco Busan container ship with a tower footing of the Bay Bridge yesterday morning , clean up crews begins the work of containing the spilled oil as it reaches nearby San Francisco Bay beaches.

Source: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
Photo taken on 11/8/07, in San Francisco, CA, USA

Meghan McNertney of Larkspur tends to a Surf Scoter, a duck that lives in the surf, she rescued from the shore of Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, covered in oil that spilled from the damaged container ship in SF Bay. After the collision of the Cosco Busan container ship with a tower footing of the Bay Bridge yesterday morning , clean up crews begins the work of containing the spilled oil as it reaches nearby San Francisco Bay beaches.

Source: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
Photo taken on 11/8/07, in San Francisco, CA, USA

A Clean up crew with NRC Environmental Services begins to bag the globs of oil washing up onshore at Rodeo Beach, Marin Headlands. After the collision of the Cosco Busan container ship with a tower footing of the Bay Bridge yesterday morning , clean up crews began the work of containing and cleaning up the spilled oil as it reaches nearby San Francisco Bay beaches.

Source: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
Photo taken on 11/8/07, in San Francisco, CA, USA

Looking south at the East side of Angel Island, this is an aerial view of one of the oil slicks floating in San Francisco Bay.

The Cosco Busan hit the Bay Bridge spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel.

The Bay is filled with the oil from Candelstick Point to the Marin County coast.

Source: Kurt Rogers, The Chronicle
Photo taken on 11/8/07, in San Francisco, CA, USA