Should Canada Continue Drilling for Oil and Gas Under the Great Lakes?

[NNN0LHI]

http://barbara-spring.blogspot.com/2010/04/offshore-oil-drilling-disaster.html

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Offshore Oil Drilling Disaster

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – Oil is leaking from the ruptured well of a large rig that exploded, burnt and sank in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, the US Coast Guard said Saturday.The Coast Guard estimated that up to 1,000 of barrels of oil, or 42,000 gallons (158,987 liters) were spewing each day from a riser and a drill pipe...



In light of the oil disaster in the Gulf, here is an excerpt from my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes


The Great Lakes are large, but fragile.

Presently, offshore drilling for oil and gas is not permitted in the Great Lakes. The eight governors of the states bordering the Great Lakes ban oil drilling in the Great Lakes because they are so vulnerable to oil contamination.

Canada has allowed 55 wells in Lake Erie.

Yet some oil exploration companies have drilled under Lake Michigan from on shore sites by means of directional drilling and want to explore for more oil under the Great Lakes. So far twelvewells have been drilled from offshore using directional drilling to go

Accidental oil spills in the Great Lakes have the potential for far more serious damage than an oil spill at sea because the water in the Great Lakes takes a long time to circulate through the system. An oil spill would affect the whole ecosystem from the microscopic plankton to the eagle with a seven-foot wingspan. It would affect the people who depend on Great Lakes water for domestic, agricultural and manufacturing purposes.

*The Dynamic Great Lakes was published in 2001. Now the number of Canadian offshore wells has increased along with the possibility of oil spills.

[safeinOhio]

1. Save the walleye

and perch.

:patriot:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Millions of people use that water for drinking

[ShortnFiery]

3. Simply "NO!" eom

[customerserviceguy]

4. I don't have a problem with directional drilling

It doesn't have the same engineering nightmares that the BP fiasco presents.

[NNN0LHI]

5. And you can guarantee that its safe right?

Seems like I have heard similar rhetoric before.

Don

[customerserviceguy]

7. I can't guarantee

that when you flip on the light switch, your whole house won't blow up.

All I'm saying is that there are areas that are easier to deal with when a problem comes up, and dry land seems to be one of them, especially when compared with a mile under sea level.

We're going to get the energy from somewhere, I'd rather they did slant drilling from the land rather than go straight in from the water. That's not going to help us get energy from way out in the deep water, but perhaps new technologies can be developed to make that possible from far away.

[madrchsod]

6. no....there`s enough problems with the asian carp.