The funny thing is, offshore California is already awash with NATURAL oil slicks. These get blamed on the industry, but the vast majority is natural seepage coming to surface and washing up on the beaches, or even coming to surface IN the beach from onshore oil seeps.
Modern environmental rules are pretty strict and contribute to the price of oil - compliance costs money, but if that's what the public want, our job is to deliver it to them. Satellite radar is a very good way to check compliance - oil slicks cause smooth water and change the roughness at the right scale for satellite-mounted radars to see instantly.
The industry uses such radar images to look for natural seepage, and to check tankers and rigs for compliance. Modern well-maintained facilities have almost no slicks. Older or third-world facilities look shocking and have obvious trails pointing to the source of pollution.
The EPA can use the images to mount a prosecution, or at least target the facility for an inspection. Industry knows this and also buys the images to check their own compliance.
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