There’s a new twist in a company’s efforts to reactivate an oil pipeline which ruptured, and caused a major oil spill in Santa Barbara County in 2015.
Sable Offshore Corporation has been fighting to get the State Fire Marshal’s Office to allow the repaired pipeline to reopen, so it can resume pumping oil from three idle oil platforms off the Santa Barbara County coast. The state agency hasn’t issued a final ruling on the restart plan.
But, in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sable said it’s now asking federal regulators to allow the pipeline’s reopening…