Is anyone aware of the effects of drilling for oil in the Gulf?
Sure, they have been doing impact studies for YEARS, wasting a whole lot of our taxpayer dollars just to tell us what we already know, drilling is not exactly good for the environment, which is why Alaska still has Anwar closed (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). And recently another field in Alaska was closed because of corrosion as deep as 75% of the pipeline wall thicness in some pipelines. By “Gulf” I am thinking the Gulf of Mexico, right? If so, YES, many studies have been done and the damage because of Katrina was predicted in detail and guess what, happened exactly as predicted for a storm of that size. What gets ME is that the fields off the Florida coast are being opened up to FOREIGN OIL companies! Not a single American oil company is involved!!! There is something seriously WRONG with that picture! And who says we can’t trust the government these days! The problem is, there is no infrastructure in place to expand the present resources into active production and it will take Y
