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Originally Posted by CompuDude
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Originally Posted by ReefHound
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Originally Posted by CompuDude
The issue, to me, isn't the drilling or the pumping. It's the risk of a spill. The small amount of good an offshore artificial reef does to the local marine populations pales in comparison to the massive amount of damage that can be caused by a spill.
If they could guarantee no spills, I'd cheerfully wave a flag for them while they headed out to begin working. But the fact is, they can't. Anyone who has actually witnessed a spill first hand knows this.
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What does that really have to do with drilling? The spills don't usually occur because of drilling mishaps but because of shipping accidents. And we are going to have shipping whether we drill here or the Middle East. We have supertankers plying our coastal waters every day already. |
So... what is it you do with the oil after the drilling? You load it onto ships.
Point stands. No drilling platforms, no oil pumping, no ship loading ... no spills. |
Drilling platforme do not load on to ships. In the Gulf of Mexico all oil is moved to shore by pipeline and the same would be done anywhere along the coast.