We’re standing on a hill overlooking the ocean near the Santa Barbara County-San Luis Obispo County line. It’s a gorgeous view of the coastline. You wouldn’t know it now, but this was once a massive oil field, with hundreds of wells.
“Right now, we’re standing on a dune overlooking the Pacific Ocean. There are waves crashing on the beach where 30 years ago, there were oil wells,” said Jeff Moore, Public Affairs Advisor with Chevron.
The company is managing a decades-long project to restore this section of coast, which was home to the Guadalupe Oil Field. Chevron has just signed a deal to transfer almost all of the 2,800 acres of land to the federal government for a nature preserve, pending completion of a massive cleanup and restoration project…