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The Environmental Benefits of Offshore Drilling

Alexander12 Wrote: May 04, 2010 3:38 PM

I'm responding to your post about offshore drilling in 2008. After everything that has happed within the past two weeks, what do you have to say? I would assume that the point of veiw you had two years ago has changed. I live in Alaska and my father commercial fished in PWS. And the Exxon oil spill had a great impact on my family. Have you ever visited Alaska? Where you here to witness the oil spill? I doubt it. I find it very ironic... I read your post and laughed and felt insulted the whole time. I now commercial fish in Bristol Bay, one of the most beautiful and one of a kind places I have ever been. So please write me back. Tell me that all oil spills are due to transportation, tell me Louisiana has been unharmed due to offshore oil...

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The Environmental Benefits of Offshore Drilling

Louisiana produces almost 30 per cent of America's commercial fisheries. Only Alaska (ten times the size of the Bayou state) produces slightly more. So obviously, Louisiana's coastal waters are immensely rich and prolific in seafood.

These same coastal waters contain 3,200 of the roughly 3,700 offshore production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. From these, Louisiana also produces 25 per cent of America's domestic oil, and no major oil spill has ever soiled its coast. So for those interested in evidence over hysterics, by simply looking bayou-ward, a lesson in the “environmental perils” of offshore oil drilling presents itself...

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