What are the environmental consequences of offshore drilling for oil?

Question

Would there be a way to keep the oil out of the water?

Answer 1

yes, there is a way of keeping oil out of the water. Since oil floats on water we can surround it with things called booms.

they are things that float on water which acts as a wall against oil. so one side of the boom it is oily water and on the other there is clean water.

The enviromental consequences:

* oil spill

*animals try to dive in oily sea, they drink oil and die

* birds go in to oily sea, their feathers get stuck they cannot fly and possibly drown

*fire, releases harmful gases into the enviroment

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Answer 2

damaging

Answer 3

It would add to pollution.

dumping of waste into sea

Fire and chemical hazard.

Oil spill etc.

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Answer 4

First oil and water are immesible..

they do NOT mix.. and they cannot..

oil will always float on water..

secondly for offshore drilling for oil .. depends..

if you are cutting down trees to create space for oil drilling then you are killing trees.. and chopping off food and habitat for the birds and animals that live in the trees and those who feed on it ..

secondly when you dig for oil ..

soil eroision occurs .. which means that the fertile soil that took millions of years to form is gone..!

also .. it means that vegetation will now be poor in that area.. lack of trees will result in further water erosion and landslides..!!

Answer 5

Modern merhods are very clean and spills are rare. We might lose a little coral and clams 'way out there offshore, but that is pretty much all.