Hurricanes can lead to a destructive domino effect.
"We've seen the damage that hurricanes do in regions that have offshore drilling and oil production and refining," Jacqueline Savitz, chief policy officer for ocean conservation nonprofit Oceana, told ABC News."And we can expect that to continue."Transocean Ltd.'s Development Driller III rig works to drill a primary relief well as seen from the deck of the Development Driller II rig at the BP Plc Macondo site in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, Aug.
There are several ways oil can leak into the ocean as a result of turbulent weather, Savitz said. An underwater pipeline can be disturbed, coastal storage facilities may be battered or rigs and refineries could take a direct hit. Much of the oil eventually makes its way into the air as sea spray or evaporating water, leaving behind an oily residue on shores, said Rick Luettich, director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences.LDWF personnel triage an oiled tricolored heron recovered at the Alliance Refinery oil spill in Belle Chasse, La. in an undated handout photo.
"Whether the water is coming from the ocean up onto the land or from the sky, when it comes in contact with any type of of industrial or other infrastructure, that infrastructure needs a higher level of preparedness, a higher level of readiness to deal with the future," he said.The Tamar drilling natural gas production platform of the shore of Ashkelon, Israel, March 28, 2013.The No.
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