U.S. to Allow Seismic Airgun Testing for Offshore Drilling Exploration, Will kill Cetaceans

[SHRED]

Are kidding me Obama Administration?



http://oceana.org/sites/default/files/Oceana_Seismic_Airgun_Testing_Infographic_PDF.pdf

Seismic airguns (link that has graphics on how the airgun operates) are used to find oil and gas deep underneath the ocean floor. Airguns are so loud that they disturb, injure or kill marine life, harm commercial fisheries, and disrupt coastal economies. These dynamite-like blasts—which are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days and weeks at a time—are 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine. Seismic airgun testing currently being proposed in the Atlantic will injure 138,500 whales and dolphins and disturb millions more, according to government estimates.

Yesterday, the U.S. government released a final proposal to allow the use of controversial seismic airguns to look for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean floor in an area twice the size of California, stretching from Delaware to Florida. According to the Department of the Interior (DOI), these dynamite-like blasts are expected to injure and possibly kill large numbers of dolphins and whales along the East Coast and disturb the necessary activities of millions more.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/28/1281114/-U-S-to-Allow-Seismic-Airgun-Testing-for-Offshore-Drilling-Exploration-Will-kill-Cetaceans

[Stargazer09]

1. Don't tell me

That we haven't reached "peak oil" now. If we are so desperate to find fossil fuels that we are ready to destroy the oceanic ecosystem just to find it, we are in big trouble.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. We are nuts.

The fact that anyone would even contemplate this insanity, let alone sanction it, tells you just about everything you need to know about Homo stupidens americanus.

[hunter]

3. Automobiles are sacred in the U.S.A.. Cetaceans are not.

Sure we get upset when people eat cetaceans or turn them into dog food, but blowing them up or poisoning them, out of sight, out of mind, that's okay.

[gtar100]

4. Nothing matters to them but humans. When you've been fed that line of crap since birth, then

doing such destruction doesn't matter. It's inbred in our culture that when we were born we came *into* this world and when we die we *leave* it. So there is little personal consequence to what we do here, whether we believe in an afterlife or not. But if our perception was turned around and we could see that we are intrinsically part of this Earth, and are completely dependent upon the balance of an ecosystem created / evolved over aeons, I don't think we would be so quick to destroy pieces of it. But we don't get that kind of an education en masse.

[Nihil]

5. OK ... maybe I take that back ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112765476#post4

It's not a state competition after all - it's a top-down process.