Off-shore drilling?

I worked as a commercial diver....

on off shore rigs in the gulf of mexico for quite a few years.

I was involved with everything from drilling, to removal, and clearing the site after the platform had been removed.

A single "production platform" as we know it, is capable of servicing dozens of wells, due to remote sattelite wells, connected to the platform by subsea flow lines, as well as directional drilling.

Most of the platforms I worked on (under?) in the GOM were Nat gas, with a little crude byproduct.

They are anything but an envirnmental disaster in the making. If anything, they are an asset to fishes, corals and invertebrates. I was amazed a t the biodiversity on the "legs" of these structures. Small fry up to 5' long barracuda.

When a platform has reached the end of its servicable life, the legs are cut 15' below the mudline, and the upper half is removed and recycled.

The lower half is towed to an artificial reef site and "donated".

The sea floor between structures looks like a desert, the structures themselves look like a vertical coral reef.

I wish we had a dozen off Savannah's shore .
 
Well we waste a lot on defense. For example, The National Guard, they could remove a lot of the out of shape, ineffecient, poorly trained, discipline lacking ones and what'll you get.......a National Guard of......about a Battalion left.

National Guard is really a waste of money. They do a piss-poor job, nearly all the ones I've dealt with are jokes in camo, and they waste money and laugh about it.
 
Nimby!

NIMBY! omg NIMBY!

The above is the entirety of the reasons against drilling off the florida coast.
 
Nimby?

Oh, I get it now! Not In My Back Yard. :)

I believe that everyone has the Exon Valdez tragedy in their mind when they thing of oil and gas production.

Tar on the beach and seagulls flopping around.

I am sure that a large oil spill has happened at some point due to exploration and production activities, but I have never heard of one.

I have fixed a couple leaking gas pipes, but they have little (if any) environmental impact. Natural gas is mostly methane.
 
Mac, I would say we waste a lot of money on everything, and teh waste is probably proportional to the actual cost of what we need in that area. Defense is no exception.
 
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