Just as I decide to start tracking Peak Oil for my blog comes this twist from an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, headlined “From rigs to riches?”
For many Californians who remember the calamitous 1969 Santa Barbara Channel oil spill, the 27 oil platforms perched off the coast are an unforgivable blight upon the ocean and nature.
But that may be a superficial view.
There is accumulating evidence – at least in the eyes of some scientists – that the oil rigs’ submerged superstructures provide important habitat for a wide variety of marine life, and may even be critical to preserving some increasingly rare species.
Since I plan to share news on this topic more often than I comment on it, I suggest you read the rest of the article for yourselves.
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