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Posted on 1/28/21 at 6:09 am to HTXGator
Posted on 1/28/21 at 6:09 am to HTXGator
HTX...I wish we had platforms in Fla. Great fishing on them and you are right about over population. I never stated that oil drilling affected water quality. Its auto emissions and huge plants with waste material dumping along with municipal waste dumping. Tampa used to dump untreated sewage into Tampa Bay...funny thing was multi millionaires that lived in Davis Islands/Bayshore area had to hold their noses at low tide.
My father and I owned a retail/wholesale seafood business in the '60s and '70s. We depended on shellfish for 85% of our production. Monsanto, which made carpet fibers and related products dumped millions of tons of chemicals off Pensacola and wiped out the panhandle....fish crabs, oysters were destroyed and the cost of seafood skyrocketed...we couldn't pass on the price to consumers and it made us shutdown a few years later.
Here in Fla. I got to witness land development and greedy politicians that took bribes and never cared that dredging in intercoastal waters destroyed sea grass. The bottom of the intercoastal waters and canals is now pure muck courtesy of dead sea grass and water quality turned clean pristine waters to junk.
I live in Pinellas County and we have 28 separate towns and cities...some were greedy...like Clearwater, which allowed rampant building of high rise condos and it looks like Miami Beach. Some towns wouldn't allow the growth of high rises and put strict height restrictions. Developers stayed away because they couldn't make $$$
I used to fish from Belle Isles and Port Fourchon...the old rigs in a lot of cases were replaced by jack up rigs, which weren't usually productive fishing. And as I stated before, hurricanes wiped out a lot of rigs...which in a lot of cases were never replaced.
Im not blaming pipeline building as an only factor. America has to change to more electric/solar/wind power to keep our grandchildren from facing huge problems. Charging stations will be built by the govt to aid the change...so far almost all auto makers are onboard with this. GMC is the only major one not yet agreeing, but they will if they want to sell autos in California.
We will still need gas/oil, a lot of industry cannot convert and existing autos will remain for 15-20 years. My biggest question is: did you ever fish off any rigs?
My father and I owned a retail/wholesale seafood business in the '60s and '70s. We depended on shellfish for 85% of our production. Monsanto, which made carpet fibers and related products dumped millions of tons of chemicals off Pensacola and wiped out the panhandle....fish crabs, oysters were destroyed and the cost of seafood skyrocketed...we couldn't pass on the price to consumers and it made us shutdown a few years later.
Here in Fla. I got to witness land development and greedy politicians that took bribes and never cared that dredging in intercoastal waters destroyed sea grass. The bottom of the intercoastal waters and canals is now pure muck courtesy of dead sea grass and water quality turned clean pristine waters to junk.
I live in Pinellas County and we have 28 separate towns and cities...some were greedy...like Clearwater, which allowed rampant building of high rise condos and it looks like Miami Beach. Some towns wouldn't allow the growth of high rises and put strict height restrictions. Developers stayed away because they couldn't make $$$
I used to fish from Belle Isles and Port Fourchon...the old rigs in a lot of cases were replaced by jack up rigs, which weren't usually productive fishing. And as I stated before, hurricanes wiped out a lot of rigs...which in a lot of cases were never replaced.
Im not blaming pipeline building as an only factor. America has to change to more electric/solar/wind power to keep our grandchildren from facing huge problems. Charging stations will be built by the govt to aid the change...so far almost all auto makers are onboard with this. GMC is the only major one not yet agreeing, but they will if they want to sell autos in California.
We will still need gas/oil, a lot of industry cannot convert and existing autos will remain for 15-20 years. My biggest question is: did you ever fish off any rigs?
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Posted on 1/28/21 at 11:37 am to reel_gator8
No I've mostly worked deepwater rigs where you usually can't fish. Too bad because when the tuna run out there it gets pretty crazy.
I've done plenty of fishing in the Fourchon area. A lot of my family lives down there. Makes even idiots like me feel like I'm a great fisherman.
The problem with these bans in the U.S. is that it will be a net detriment to the environment and the economy. Oil will still be produced and consumed, just by Russia and Saudi Arabia where the environmental regulations are certainly less stringent than here. So we send them money, import their oil at greater environmental cost, sacrifice national security, lose jobs, and still wait probably the same amount of time for the great green revolution to occur in the meantime.
I've done plenty of fishing in the Fourchon area. A lot of my family lives down there. Makes even idiots like me feel like I'm a great fisherman.
The problem with these bans in the U.S. is that it will be a net detriment to the environment and the economy. Oil will still be produced and consumed, just by Russia and Saudi Arabia where the environmental regulations are certainly less stringent than here. So we send them money, import their oil at greater environmental cost, sacrifice national security, lose jobs, and still wait probably the same amount of time for the great green revolution to occur in the meantime.
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