Updated on April 21, 2021 at 11:06 am
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A boat fire in Point Loma on Tuesday led to a diesel spill in the San Diego Bay, according to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s (CDFW) Office of Spill Prevention and Response.
The blaze was reported at about 2:30 a.m. when firefighters were notified of a burning boat at the Southwestern Yacht Club. At the scene, personnel were met with a “well-involved” interior fire on a 48-foot cabin cruiser docked at the yacht club, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department.
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Emails Raise Questions About Chevron’s Bay Area Oil Spill Response
Aaron Cantu, Capital & Main
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The morning after a quarter-inch hole in a pipeline owned by Chevron leaked petroleum fluids into the San Francisco Bay on February 9, Richmond Mayor Tom Butt struck an optimistic tone about the incident at the oil giant’s refinery.
“I think in the big picture it’s going to be OK,” Butt told one local press outlet.
On his blog several days later, Butt wrote the city had “dodged a bullet on what turned out to be a relatively small spill with no lingering effects.” In a city council meeting a week after the spill, he offered no thoughts when a counselor brought up the incident.
Oil spill response
Q: I ve been reading news reports about the recent oil spills in the San Francisco Bay Area and learned that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is the lead state agency handling oil spills. How did the department assume this authority? (Dave)
A: CDFW’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) was established by the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act of 1990. The legislation came on the heels of two major spills, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, in which 11 million gallons of crude oil was released, and the American Trader spill in Orange County in 1990 that resulted in a release of 416,598 gallons of crude oil.
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