A ship waiting to enter the Port of Los Angeles or Long Beach is visible behind workers painstakingly cleaning oil from the beach by hand following a massive spill that leaked at least 144,000 gallons of oil from a broken pipeline connected to an offshore drilling platform about five miles off the coast of Orange County, CA. Damage has been done to local wildlife and wetlands which can take decades to recover.
This latest disaster is just another example of why we must phase out oil and gas extraction both onshore and offshore.