There’s a new setback for an oil company in its efforts to restart an oil pipeline shuttered by a major oil spill off the Santa Barbara County coast.
A judge denied the company’s efforts to order Santa Barbara County to approve its takeover of ownership permits for the pipeline and three oil platforms.
Sable Offshore Corporation says it’s repaired and now wants to restart the pipeline that ruptured on the Gaviota Coast in 2015, causing a more than 140,000-gallon oil spill. This would allow production to resume on three offshore oil platforms that rely on the pipeline to move oil…