Many of Australia’s offshore oil and gas projects have finished. Wells need to be plugged; steel structures and pipelines removed. There’s A$60 billion worth of work to be done in coming decades.
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This could be one reason to leave these rigs in the sea.
Decommissioning offshore structures is expensive and environmentally damaging – so why is it illegal to leave them where they are?
Californians love their coast and strongly oppose offshore drilling. Will they support converting old oil rigs to artificial reefs – a policy that benefits both marine life and oil companies?
It’s a policy to help the environment, so where’s the evidence to support it?
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Honorary Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen
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Research Biologist, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
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