Another Greka Leak

Firestone, big oils "man on the board" will no doubt say "these are minor problems and too much is being made over them". Greka "Wrecker" oil is a third rate low budget operation trying to squeeze the last few barrels of oil out at low cost using shoddy safety practices. SHUT THOSE FOOLS DOWN NOW. Re-open when they can prove they have got their act together.

Residents of Santa Barbara County are lucky to even have local agencies on their side enough to cite the violations in the first place. I live in Mussel Shoals where Greka maintains an oil drilling island. The island is run by druggies on crystal meth. Safety violations abound. The bridge right now has a giant hole in it from the recent storm. Nothing is being fixed. The prior manager, Bill Yates, left after decades running the place when Greka took over because he did not want to be responsible for safety. The local fire department and the State Lands Commission do practically nothing when it comes to saftey violations brought to their attention. They claim they have no jurisdiction over having the island manned at all times in order to attend to constant audible alarms. They claim they cannot enforce drug testing. The fire department claims the land is "private property" and they can do nothing. Barbed wires and electrical wires dangle onto a PUBLIC shoreline as I write this. Greka has talked the fire department into thinking that the island is somehow under the protection of "homeland security". What a crock. If the island is a terrorist target, it surely should not be shoddily run by meth heads.