Posted on 08/04/2008 6:35:26 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Gee! No wonder the caribou hang around the AK pipeline. It just goes to show that fish and animals are smarter than the environmentalists.
I agree. Having gone fishing in those areas there are plenty of fish around the oil platforms. Also seals resting on the supports.
The Principality of Sealand is based entirely on a similar structure (although it wasn’t for drilling), perhaps such manmade islands could be acquired by offering to take care of them at no cost, save the oil companies a few bucks and get your own island? :p
He’s too inconsistent. He drives a hybrid though hybrids consume more resources to make. If ha can handle truth, then he should be aware of the this. He admires Che, though if he had to live in a “revolutionary” society like Venezuela, he wouldn’t have the “backing of big oil”, and he’d be living in a shack on the beach unless he towed the State Party line.
Salt water anglers in Texas and Louisiana have known this for many decades. The oil rigs are the place to fish!
No oil rigs here but the discharge from The San Onofre nuclear plant makes for some good fishing.
As far as carbon footprints go - since everything has an energy signature - what a person spends a year is the best indicator of energy usage. What kind of car they drive or how many sheets of toilet paper they use is silly stuff.
I knew a woman in the 70's who was quite wealthy and spend every dime she could find, while sanctimoniously leaving lights off her Christmas tree to show how energy pious she was.
Yep. Power Plant discharge areas are also excellent spots. Around here, in the Galveston Bay Complex, the fish like to congregate there in the winter especially because of the warm water being discharged.
That may be true in Cal. year round. That Pacific is cold!
The fact that wildlife of all kinds clearly like oil production and thrive around it just drives the nut cases nuts. I was just a kid, but remember the hue and cry about how the Alaskan pipeline would devastate the poor caribou.
The Principality of SealandIsn't that the platform off the coast of the U.K.?
Yeah, the one that somebody declared was its own country several years ago, its now for sale.
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