Beam me to Planet Gore !
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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It make take a thousand years for the world’s economy to recover from radical environmentalism.
. . . especially when Jews do the drilling :)
Destroy every last mollusk, worm, crustacean, cetacean, fish, sponge, or cephalopod in the Med for all I care. The sky won’t fall and nobody but a handful of eco-hippies will notice they’re gone.
PBS and I don’t mean the Public Broadcasting System even though they are pretty much the same.
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