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Obama Administration: No Offshore Drilling In Eastern Gulf Of Mexico For Seven Years Because Of BP Oil Spill

Wednesday, December 1, 2010


You mean that there are fish around oil rig platforms?  That doesn't mean that the oil rigs are good for the fish.  It's not as if the fish can divine toxic dangers to them and would shun the platforms.  As a matter of fact, an argument can be made that there has been die-off around the platforms, and it causes the fish to sink to the bottom around the platforms, attracting more fish to the area (to be killed, etc.).

By the way, your comment is a twisting of the argument made by oil companies that were ordered to remove oil platforms once they stop producing.  The oil companies didn't want to pay to remove them, and argued that they were "essential habitat" because fish swam around them.  They're no more "essential habitat" than shipwrecks­:

"Just because fish are there doesn't mean the platform constitute­s habitat," said Linda Krop, a lawyer for the Environmen­tal Defense Center. "That's like taking a picture of birds on a telephone wire and saying it's essential habitat."

About Gulf Oil Spill
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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