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Winds of Change: UCSB Experts Weigh in on Effects of Offshore Wind Energy noozhawk.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from noozhawk.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Virtual Meetings Set To Update Community About Efforts To Remove Abandoned Oil Piers On South Coast kclu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kclu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The new use for abandoned oil rigs The grey steel girders of Platform Holly rise 235ft (72m) above the waters of the Pacific Ocean, just a couple of miles off the Santa Barbara coast. Above the water, this decommissioned oil rig is dull and lifeless, but the view below the surface is very different. Beneath the waves, colourful fish, crabs, starfish and mussels congregate on the huge steel pylons, which stretch for more than 400ft (120m) to the ocean floor. There are more than 12,000 offshore oil and gas platforms worldwide. As they drain their reservoirs of fossil fuels below the sea, they eventually become defunct when they produce too little fuel for extraction to be profitable to their operators. ....