Miles-long oil slick spotted off coast of Huntington Beach

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The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a 2.5-mile-long oil slick discovered off the coast of Huntington Beach.

Authorities are investigating an oil slick discovered off the coast of Huntington Beach in Southern California on Friday.The slick is about 2.5-miles-long, and is located about 3 miles off the coast, near the oil platforms named Emmy and Eva the U.S. Coast Guard reported.'Aerial surveys are planned to assess the size and potential impacts,' the Coast Guard said in a social media post.

'The agency also reported that it had established a unified command with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the sheriff's department to respond the sheen. Amplify Energy said in statement Friday that there is 'no indication that this sheen is related to our operations.'In October 2021, a rupture to an Amplify Energy oil pipeline off the Huntington Beach coast spilled 25,000 gallons of oil into the ocean. as believed that a ship's anchor dragged across it.

 

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