Company confirms plans to sell oil from its controversial Santa Barbara County facilities

The company at the center of a controversy over the restart of a controversial oil pipeline may have a buyer for its oil.

Sable Offshore Corporation announced that it started pumping oil through the pipeline on March 14, after the federal government used a half-century-old law to bypass state regulators.

The restart of the pipeline allows Sable to once again use three oil platforms off the Santa Barbara County coastline. The platforms and pipeline were idled after a May 2015 pipeline rupture and spill on the Gaviota Coast…

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