Santa Barbara County’s District Attorney and State Attorney General Kamala Harris are holding a joint news conference in Santa Barbara later this morning to announce criminal indictments in connection with last year’s Refugio State Beach Oil Spill.
The authorities haven’t yet released details about the indictments.
On May 19th of last year, more than 140,000 gallons of oil spill when a pipeline near the state beach ruptured.
The federal investigation into the spill isn’t complete, but preliminary information indicates the pipeline was heavily corroded.
The cleanup took months, with the price tag more than $100 million dollars