[Gaffer]

My wife, daughter & her husband, grand children all went down to the Gulf for a 2 week vacation in October. I was distressed to see they all came back from there covered in oil from that disaster and how devastated everything there was. /s

[C. Edmund Wright]

Everyone who’s wet a hook in salt water knows this......more structure will actually create more aquatic life - it doesn’t just gather existing life - (structure allows development at bottom of food chain and works its way up).

Gonna tick off environmentalists to no end....

[Dr. Sivana]

Jonah Goldberg has matured greatly as a columnist. Both his selected subjects, and what he writes about them have improved greatly. This is a story that I had not known about and would not have surmised.

I once figured he only got space because of his famous mother. Whether that was once true or not, he has earned his keep.

[Lazamataz]

Wild blueberries are pathetic. Manmade blueberries rock.

[zeugma]

In a 15-year study, researchers found that the ecosystems that build up around artificial rigs host 1,000 percent more fish and other sea life than natural habitats such as reefs and estuaries. The California rigs outstripped even famously rich ecosystems such as the coral reefs of French Polynesia.

WTF? This has been known for decades.

 

[Carry_Okie]

A completely disjointed set of ideas.

[American Constitutionalist]

Globle warming makes more fishies and animals.

The globle warming hoaxters should be sued for cruelty to fish and animals for denying fish and animals a healthy habitat with ocean oil rigs.

OIL RIGS : make 5 star hotels for fishies.

[a fool in paradise]

So offshore oil wells are GOOD for nature while wind farms and solar panel farms kill thousands of animals.

The econazis don’t care.

[Smokin' Joe]

Claisse says in interviews that he hopes policymakers will take his findings into account when approving renewable energy sources such as ocean-based wind farms.

So, they aren't promoting oil rigs, but offshore wind farms.

First off, the vibrations from a wind generator will set up different sound waves in the water, unlike a production platform which won't have harmonics like a wind generator. The production platform likely warms the water around it as well (the oil is generally warmer than the seawater when it comes out of the ground) creating upwelling currents which bring nutrients up from the depths--helping feed the surrounding biota and contributing to the reef effect.

I would doubt the effect would be the same with a wind generator platform, but it would be best to study whether that is the case before assuming the effects would be the same.