The abandoned rigs question is already getting a first-rate look by the right eyes – researchers at the Gulf of Mexico Institute at the Harte Research Institute in Corpus Christi. That work, which will require four years to complete, is being funded by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It should be allowed to be finished before far-reaching conclusions are drawn. [email protected]
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
It costs money to remove “…the abandoned underwater sculptures” and inspect and repair the obsolete “plugged” wells that accompany each “sculpture”.
There are 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf and they may be leaking—they haven’t been checked.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-6653016.html
Do you suppose the industry whose investment in “spill recovery technology” consists of oil booms towed around by hastily hired fishing vessels offshore, and in the estuaries, bamboo sticks in the mud anchoring oil absorbent bilge socks and pads (the type available at West Marine); do you suppose that those oil companies with a global history of leaving in their wake destruction, pollution, and political mayhem for whatever target country they’ve decided to drain of oil and gas resources; do you suppose that big oil will spend the significant money required to clean up their mess here at home in the Gulf—especially since they own the bordering Gulf states?
“Uderwater Sculptures” should be enough of an indication to predict where this will end up.