Bree wrote: > >>>I too,(i'll duck with this one) what about a little off-shore drilling of the coast of CA? I said Alaska but I really meant CA. Only a few hundred miles off.<<<
Oooo, that's a sore subject with most Southern Californians! We have had many offshore for a number of years but especially after the oil spill that Kate mentioned, any new ones since have been fought against. That spill was really devastating to the offshore islands and sea life. We have so much pollution running off into the ocean already from having millions of people living right next to the shore, that we don't need to add to it! When I was growing up, the fishing was wonderful and you could there were lots of little lobsters and abalone right on the shore. They all disappeared as waste pollution killed off the kelp beds. The kelp beds have been restored but one still hears that no one should eat the fish they catch unless it came from 100 miles offshore. It's a very fragile situation. Kakki
