>>President Biden understands the urgent need to keep this oil in the ground
Oil doesn’t stay put. It’ll seap out naturally. Better to extract it and do away with that “nasty” oil.
On the other hand, the Prince William, AK fisheries have never recovered from the Exxon Valdez spill
When will the Governor of Louisiana nullify the illegitimate fedguv EO and just let the drilling continue? Inquiring minds want to know. GOPee Delenda Est!
I am looking at the hundreds of oil tankers torpedoed in WWII. Most of the articles I am seeing are pearl-clutchers describing these tankers as “time bombs” that could start leaking oil and destroy the whole ocean at any point. So, environmental ‘cleanup’ outfits need more money.
Maybe somebody who knows more about it can say, but I have a hard time believing that all of these tankers went down without spilling their cargo.
The greenies results? Chains rusted in the salt water (who knew?), storms and hurricanes scattered the individual tires all over the sea floor.
I’m guessing that the oil platforms have more fish due to the greater range in depth around the structure. A natural reef probably has a limited depth range, and only attracts fish that like those depths.
Either that, or it is a diabolical scheme between the oil and fishing industries to gather all sorts of fish in one area and then catch them all - and then served to yuppies (is that still a thing?) at fancy New Orleans restaurants.
BTW - if salmon is on the endangered species list - how come it is still on the menu?
The Norwegian are getting rich extracting all that oil from the pristine seas around them.
If Norwegians can do it, Americans can surely do too!
In the worst case, hire some Norwegians.
What are they going to tell the people when the “No Gas” signs come out? When they get in a line a mile long for gas, only to have them run out after they spent hours waiting? When they get on social media to complain and then get banned? When they go to the polls to do something about it and see every race lost by a few hundred votes? This is what is coming.
But they came out of the water bug-eyed and indeed produced and broadcast a Travel Channel program showcasing a panorama that turned on its head every environmental superstition against offshore oil drilling. “”
It’d be interesting to see the career trajectories of these persons post production.
“forgetting” the infamous BP oil spill!”
I still remember the Torry Canyon spill. Anyone remember it?
Then there was a well blowout in the 1860s-1880s USA. The oil flowed toward the Atlantic, till the river caught fire.
Any damage today?
I basically started ignoring environmentalists about offshore drilling after seeing the results of oil spills over decades.
When the spill occurs you get the Enviro Hysterics telling the press that this is irreversible damage or it will take hundreds of years to recover.
Then you get the story five years later of the “remarkable recovery” of the area that “no one could ever have imagined”.
That’s not a reason to do all things reasonable to prevent the spill in the first place, and impose real consequences for negligence, but it never turns out to be the ecological doom it is portrayed as.
“... We had some close-ups, too, of coral and sponges, the very things disappearing off Florida’s pampered reefs—a state that bans offshore oil drilling.”
Someone should send this to Desantis. He’s done well to ‘follow the REAL science’ with the COVID19 mess. I was disappointed when he caved to the NIMBY and RINO pearl-clutching crowds.
Maybe if someone got this to him and Rick Scott, they’d push the FACTS to Floridians.
In Santa Barbara, Calif the socialists want to shutdown oil production even though nature leaks millions of gallons of oil from seeps out of the ocean bottom every year for untold time with no effect. The oil leaks out of the cliff face by the beach. There are tar balls in the sand as the oil in little rivers go to the ocean. The beach goers would be stepping on more tar bars if not for the oil drilling sucking up the oil by offshore rigs.
Long Beach, Calif has lots of oil, the derricks now hidden.
https://la.curbed.com/2018/9/28/17858248/history-long-beach-oil-islands-thums
Some idea of the amount of oil being shipped and stored in Long Beach, Ca
Dozens of oil tankers spotted off coast of Long Beach.
https://abc7.com/long-beach-oil-tankers-coast-prices-docked/6120048/