The oil company Chevron have a drilling ship off the Shetland Isles this morning, and obviously Greenpeace couldn't pass up the opportunity to protest against deep-sea drilling in the North Sea, so they've managed to chain a couple of activists to the ship.
It's a symptom of peak oil and the desperation of the oil companies that they have to go deeper and more extreme to get their hands on the fossil fuel. We've seen over the last few months just how disastrous that can be, so it beggars belief that the UK government is quite willing to let companies drill deep in our waters.
There seems to be a misguided mindset that because we've been using oil rigs in the North Sea for forty years, we've seen it all before and therefore can cope, unlike those idiotic Americans who can barely spell "rig".
Like I said, that's a misguided opinion and a dangerous one to have. Pride comes before a fall.
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