to an offshore oil platform run by a subsidiary of houston based amplify energy. the company says the pipeline has now been shut off and the remaining oil suctioned out. it has been maintained. we are investigating, if the pipeline is the source of this, how this happened. a huge clean up operation is under way to try to stop the oil reaching sensitive wetlands nearby and people are being urged to avoid the beaches. you can feel the vapour in the air. i saw what i ll describe as little pancake clusters of oil along the shoreline and i ve described it as something like an egg yolk if you push it, it kind of spreads out, so we don t want people to disturb those little clusters. local authorities say it is too soon to say whether the company responsible will face criminal charges. courtney bembridge, bbc news. we have more coming up from the pandora papers, more than the
those divers can potentially investigate what happened here. in the meantime, here is an orange county supervisor talking about what she s already seen come up on shore. i was there for a few hours today. and even during that time, i started to feel a little bit of my throat hurt. and you can feel the vapor in the air. i saw what i ll describe as little pancake clusters of oil along the shoreline. and i described it as something like an egg yolk. if you push it, it spreads out. we ask people not to disturb the clusters so the cleanup can be more easily maintained. reporter: and we re saying if people find animals that have come up on shore with oil on them, please don t touch anything. call the hotline they re giving out. and amplify energy says that they supply here a local refinery. because of this and that