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Huntington Beach in California - known as Surf City USA - has been hit by one of the largest oil slicks in recent history, killing wildlife and contaminating wetlands. Around 126,000 gallons of oil (nearly 600,000 litres) spilled out from a pipeline running from the Port of Long Beach to the Elly offshore oil platform.

The slick is now moving south, where sand dykes have been quickly put up to try to protect wetlands there.

Garry Brown is president of the local environmental group Orange County Coastkeeper. He hopes the incident will lead other offshore oil platforms to be decommissioned at a faster rate.

"It's going to take months. They're going to have to go in and actually by hand clean off the rocks that surround the wetland and try to clean the plants and try to do what they can to get it off the bottom. Because it's not going to go away or dissolve by itself and so there's going to be lasting damage for some time to come. There is no quick clean up."

(Photo: A sign warns people to stay off Huntington Beach, as workers clean up the oil. Credit: EPA)

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