From Avaaz:
Dear friends,
I live on the California coast, and I’m crying as I write this. Last week a massive oil pipeline burst off of Santa Barbara, and now thousands of dolphins, sea lions, and pelicans are drowning in slick rivers of oil. But my rage and sadness is also hope, because I know together we can make sure this never happens again.
While our rocky shores are awash in oil and dead fish, Plains All American CEO Greg Armstrong raked in over $5 million in compensation last year, and is guaranteed $29 – $87 million in golden parachute cash! These guys broke the law to make a quick buck. But if we hold them accountable, we can prevent another catastrophe by putting oil company executives everywhere on notice that they can’t get away with these kinds of shady games on our watch.
Let’s tell California Attorney General Kamala Harris and local District Attorney Joyce Dudly to file civil and criminal charges against Plains All American and its shady CEOs! Sign now, and spread the word:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/santa_barbara_oil_spill_loc/?bVYyJab&v=59386
The pipeline that burst lacked basic safety features, like an automatic shut-off valve. And Plains All American is one of the most reckless companies in the US, with over 175 documented violations in the past decade. They’ve been warned time and again, but did nothing.
I live in San Diego, just 200 miles south of this devastating oil spill. My best days are the days I surf with seals and dolphins. Floating in the waves as they frolic with joy and abandon makes the whole world make sense.
These precious creatures are now drowning in oil because of the profiteering short cuts of the Plains All American, but we can hold the culprits accountable. Click now to tell the DA and AG to bring the maximum possible charges:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/santa_barbara_oil_spill_loc/?bVYyJab&v=59386
With love and hope,
Terra, Joseph, Rosa and the rest of the Avaaz team
More information:
Santa Barbara oil spill: Authorities, environmentalists step up response (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/22/us/california-oil-spill
Santa Barbara oil pipeline leak rekindles memories of 1969 disaster (LA Times)
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-santa-barbara-spill-20150521-story.html#page=1
Huge Oversight Gap on Refugio Pipeline (Santa Barbara Independent)
http://www.independent.com/news/2015/may/21/whos-watching-man-whos-watching-pipeline
SEC Form 10-K Annual Report (SEC)
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1070423/000110465915013616/a14-25277_110k.htm#Item11_Executiv…
Executive Profile (Boardroom Insiders)
http://people.equilar.com/bio/greg-armstrong-plains-all/salary/25718#.VWYDse0azCQ
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Exposing the Big Game 
All because some jerk didn’t want to spend the money to have a shut-off valve, much like the blowout preventer failure issues in the notorious BP spill. I wish this man could be held accountable. One thing’s for certain – these shortcuts and lack of responsibility will continue.
The why we need to wean ourselves completely from the oil addiction…
There is no end to Homo sapiens’ assaults on this planet’s biodiversity. If it isn’t another oil “spill” (disaster) it’s more drilling, more war, more humans doing ,more planetary damage every day, but denying what is happening: ….. 122 degree temps now in India, forests fires in Alberta, and this species just keeps on striving for more growth, more, more. Here in NM, the “Game” dept is setting traps for cougar (mountain lion) for alleged dog killings (2) in the Los Alamos area.
The destruction is accelerating, it seems. Soon, the oceans everywhere will be dead zones, just as in the Gulf.
I wish I could be hopeful–but for whom? Humans? Dolphins? Gorillas? Mountain Lions? Bees? Our species has a Death Wish; we seem obsessed with our own demise (expressed in science fiction,TV series, movies, etc,). If our Death Wish were just affecting us… but it isn’t, is it?
Even being hopeful for human success in their death wish is unfortunately not automatically the same as being hopeful for the future of dolphins, gorillas, cougars, bees and the rest of nature because humans’ death wish is taking a lot of the world down with it.
I feel the same way about promoting veganism: If people have a death wish, that’s their business. But if they want to keep killing themselves by eating meat, they are causing the suffering and deaths of thousands of other beings who do not share their death wish.