OCEAN CITY – While the debate over a proposal to lease a vast area off the mid-Atlantic coast for oil and natural gas development intensified this week, a group of renowned scientists weighed in on the method for finding the energy reserves.
On Monday, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) hosted a public meeting in Annapolis to present a proposal to lease a roughly three million-acre area off the coast of Virginia for future oil and natural gas exploration and excavation. The plan is to eventually open the leased area along the outer continental shelf just 50 miles away from Ocean City, Assateague and the Delmarva coastline for the eventual private sector extraction of oil and gas reserves under the sea floor.
Before any offshore drilling or excavation can ever occur, however, the location of the vast oil and gas reserves under the ocean floor must be determined. As a result, BOEM is moving forward with a proposal to allow private sector companies to utilize potentially harmful seismic air gun testing to determine the location of the oil and gas reserves.
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This method sounds like cave man technology. Surely there's an equivalent nuclear density machine or ground radar for marine use without having every sea creature out there sacrifice its hearing.
ReplyDeleteI took a look at who was actually on this (BOEM) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. It turns out that neither one, not one, has a technical degree. They're all marine biologists and such.
ReplyDeleteThat tells me, and it should you too, that NONE of these decision makers has the foggiest idea how this sound blasting system works OR what the consequences of using it are or could be. Other then what they are told, neither one has the technical knowledge to question it. Yet, they're 'all ahead full'.
And, we wonder why it's all going to hell in a handbasket.
Wonder why whales (who can hear another whale 1500 miles away) are jumping out of the water to die on a beach?
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