“same story when we wanted to drill for oil in alaska.
The sky never fell and the catastrophe never happened.
Wild life thrived.
Same story when we were drilling for oil in the gulf.
The sky never fell and the catastrophe never happened.
Fish life thrived.”
Pretty much the same thing I was going to say.
Remember how Reagan got toasted for letting the Yellowstone fires burn during his term?
Seems that fire did what nature intended forest fires to do: renewed the habitat.
Five or six years after the fire the park people were gushing about the vitality of the park and the variety of wildlife.
They said the park hadn’t supported that variety of wildlife in decades.
I don’t think RR ever got credit for that.
Oil rigs in the GOM provide a resting stop for some tired birds that use them to rest on. They also become manmade reefs for
sea life and great place to fish.