Officials involved in the oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach announced Oct. 6 that they are continuing to ramp up efforts to clean up the estimated 144,000-gallon spill. “Our priorities remain the safety of human health, the safety of our public, protection of the environment, protection of wildlife, and finding and removing oil as soon as we can detect it and as soon as we can remove it,” Rebecca Ore, Captain of the Port and Commanding Officer at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach said during an Oct. 6 press conference. While 350 personnel are currently working across the county’s coast to manually clean up the oil, the county plans on getting 1,500 workers by the end of the week. Martyn Willsher, CEO and president of Amplify Energy—the business that runs the pipes—said during the conference that when the company discovered the oil in the water at …
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