An End to Oil Drilling?



U.S. offshore oil fire.

Richard Charter wrote in an article about the announcement made on December first that the Obama administration will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan. Although this sounds like a huge step forward the plan still allows Arctic drilling to move forward.

I feel like this is a good step forward after the BP oil spill disaster. There is already so much oil in the water from run off that we really don't need to be adding any more. I just can't imagine that anything bad can come from NOT drilling from oil.

This material relates to class because we are talking about aquatic ecosystems right now which can be highly affected by oil, especially oil spills. A stop to drilling will be a great thing for many aqatic ecosystems around America.