Posted on 02/09/2011 11:25:31 AM PST by NormsRevenge
ROME (AFP) – A rush to drill in the gas-rich Mediterranean may do permanent damage to the sea's wildlife as it takes at least a millennium for an ecosystem to grow, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday.
Drilling in the Mediterranean's eastern region shared by Turkey, Israel and Egypt, "could cause irreversible damage" to its biodiversity, said Sergi Tudela, head of WWF's Mediterranean Fisheries Programme.
The area hosts rare and millennia-old species such as deep-sea sponges, worms, mollusks and cold water corals, and therefore are "particularly fragile and vulnerable to external interference," he added in a statement.
Once a deep-sea floor has been drilled, "it can take a millennium or more before the unique micro-ecosystem grows again, so the most fragile and valuable species and under-sea areas must be left untouched by gas development."
The recently discovered Leviathan gas field, 135 kilometres off the Israeli coast, is the world's biggest deep-water gas discovery in a decade, with an estimated volume of 16 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Earlier this year the West Nile Delta gas field was discovered, lying in Egyptian waters 80 kilometres off Alexandria.
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This NASA Terra satelllite image released in 2003 shows a true-color image of the The Nile River Delta. A rush to drill in the gas-rich Mediterranean may do permanent damage to the sea's wildlife as it takes at least a millennium for an ecosystem to grow, the World Wildlife Fund warned Wednesday. (AFP/NASA/File/Nasa)
Ahh yes, the WWF, World Wrestling Federation, once again comes out against - oil drilling! surprise, surprise.
Drill baby.. drill!
Actually it’s the World Wildlife Federation, I think - any plan to improve our energy situation is met with a big NO from these clowns.
Is the WWF supporting the notion that Creation is thousands of years old? Interesting.
In their dreams.
WWF?!
Whatcha gonna do when Hulkmania drills near you???
“Actually it’s the World Wildlife Federation, I think - any plan to improve our energy situation is met with a big NO from these clowns”
As far as these scaremongers are concerned, breathing destroys the ecosystem.
We are the top of the food chain. Our duty is to perfect our species and to dominate all others. Our duty is to utilize anything provided to us to complete the never ending instructions to perfection.
“Being green” is a virus to our genetic programming that acts as any virus does, it replicates and subverts the system.
Every time you choose plastic over paper, then persons who plant trees for a living have been given less to do thus endangering their jobs and the ability to provide for their family(their evolutionary line),same can be said for those who cut the trees, to those who sell the wood, to those who make the paper, to those who make and sell the bags.
Every “green” decision that puts an inferior creature’s well being in front of our own does similar damage to our species. In theory and practice, the practice is an abomination.
Being green is a virus and should be treated as such.
The DBD (Drill Baby Drill) Society predicts vast increases in all ocean life if they drill in the Eastern Med, based on research done in the Gulf of Mexico over years of drilling.
They said the same thing in the Gulf of Mexico when the drilling rigs started decades ago, aside from last year the Mississippi dead zone from fertilizer runoff has done more damage there than all the drilling there combined.
When an organization like this that relies on donations for most of its operating funds it has to scream at every single thing just to appear that it is relevant and worthy of a check each year.
Maybe I should send a butt load of money to the world wildlife federation to keep them on top of this ecodisaster—//major Sarc//
I was thinking about the same thing. As polluted as Cairo is you can just imagine what's at the bottom of the Nile delta.
Ping.
Oh yeah. But somehow, it only takes bats about 30 seconds to find the hole in the side of my garage that I missed.
Do they think God's critters are stupid? BS!
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