It appears times may be changing as politicians have altered their positions on the offshore drilling ban to cater to the high demand, both nationally and internationally, for fuel.
This flippant change in political position can negatively impact marine life, as well as other aspects of our environment.
Offshore drilling always had its risks as far as employee safety, but if the ban is lifted, more environmental risks surface for aquatic life.
The initial federal ban was passed in 1981 by Congress to protect sites off the coast of California and Massachusetts.
A decade after the initial ban, President George H.
W.
Bush put his own ban which was later extended through to the year 2012 under Bill Clinton's presidency.
Extending up to 200 miles offshore, the Outer Continental Shelf is ideal hunting ground for oil companies.
President Barack Obama is an advocate of the offshore drilling expansion, perhaps making the ban against offshore drilling a thing of the past.
Moving rigs further out to land previously untouched by oil platforms could be in our near future; an obvious maneuver to distance the United States from foreign fuel dependency, but a big hazardous threat to the environment.
In 2008, ExxonMobil suspended their exploration near Madagascar when over 100 whales began beaching themselves onshore.
Immobile and unable to push themselves back into the sea, these whales died as a result of dehydration or by the pressure of their own bodies causing their lungs to collapse.
Sea creatures such as the whale often beach themselves on shore when they are very sick and/or dying.
Some scientists argue that the chemicals released and involved in the oil drilling process could be a contributing factor.
Others will argue that merely disrupting the habitat can inflict harm on the local marine life.
Offshore drilling can harm the environment beyond the oil spills or leaks.
These magnanimous projects taken on by man can generate excess water composed of oil, metal cuttings and other chemicals involved.
The excess heterogeneous mixture is later disposed right back into the sea.
The offshore drilling can diminish populations of marine life as lifecycles are disrupted by the toxic chemicals.
These animals can even develop cancer if exposed continually to a nearby oil platform.
Averages of 400 oil spills occur each year.
This number will only continue to increase if the ban on offshore drilling is lifted.
Oil rigs and its companies will be allowed more access to waters once untouched by man's drilling machinery.
Offshore drilling is already listed as one of the most dangerous jobs to man.
Now, offshore drilling could possibly be one of the most dangerous jobs to marine and land life.
This flippant change in political position can negatively impact marine life, as well as other aspects of our environment.
Offshore drilling always had its risks as far as employee safety, but if the ban is lifted, more environmental risks surface for aquatic life.
The initial federal ban was passed in 1981 by Congress to protect sites off the coast of California and Massachusetts.
A decade after the initial ban, President George H.
W.
Bush put his own ban which was later extended through to the year 2012 under Bill Clinton's presidency.
Extending up to 200 miles offshore, the Outer Continental Shelf is ideal hunting ground for oil companies.
President Barack Obama is an advocate of the offshore drilling expansion, perhaps making the ban against offshore drilling a thing of the past.
Moving rigs further out to land previously untouched by oil platforms could be in our near future; an obvious maneuver to distance the United States from foreign fuel dependency, but a big hazardous threat to the environment.
In 2008, ExxonMobil suspended their exploration near Madagascar when over 100 whales began beaching themselves onshore.
Immobile and unable to push themselves back into the sea, these whales died as a result of dehydration or by the pressure of their own bodies causing their lungs to collapse.
Sea creatures such as the whale often beach themselves on shore when they are very sick and/or dying.
Some scientists argue that the chemicals released and involved in the oil drilling process could be a contributing factor.
Others will argue that merely disrupting the habitat can inflict harm on the local marine life.
Offshore drilling can harm the environment beyond the oil spills or leaks.
These magnanimous projects taken on by man can generate excess water composed of oil, metal cuttings and other chemicals involved.
The excess heterogeneous mixture is later disposed right back into the sea.
The offshore drilling can diminish populations of marine life as lifecycles are disrupted by the toxic chemicals.
These animals can even develop cancer if exposed continually to a nearby oil platform.
Averages of 400 oil spills occur each year.
This number will only continue to increase if the ban on offshore drilling is lifted.
Oil rigs and its companies will be allowed more access to waters once untouched by man's drilling machinery.
Offshore drilling is already listed as one of the most dangerous jobs to man.
Now, offshore drilling could possibly be one of the most dangerous jobs to marine and land life.
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