California County Rejects Exxon’s Plan To Restart Oil Wells

The Santa Barbara County in California rejected this week a proposal from ExxonMobil to transport oil via tanker trucks that would have been a step toward restarting three oil platforms offshore Santa Barbara in federal waters.   The pipeline owned by Plains All American Pipeline, which used to transport oil from the three platforms ruptured in 2015, causing a major spill and forcing ExxonMobil to suspend production from the three platforms. As an interim solution, the U.S. supermajor applied in 2017 for an interim trucking permit from Santa…