Impacts of Oil on the Gulf Coast

dc.call-noSPEC COLL GBAY ACC#10596
dc.creatorSt. Amant, Lyle S.
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-06T21:45:32Z
dc.date.available2010-09-06T21:45:32Z
dc.date.issued1971
dc.descriptionpages 206-219en
dc.description.abstractMuch of the recent public interest in the effects of petroleum production on wildlife, fish, and the ecological parameters which support these natural resources has been centered on oil pollution resulting from spectacular accidents. While such events do occur and in some local areas appear to approach catastrophic proportions, these events do not represent the major ecological problems resulting from petroleum production. Oil pollution, per se, is only one facet of the impact of the petroleum industry on the basic ecology of an area, and from our experience appears to have far less permanent effect on the environment than does a multitude of other activities associated with the petroleum industry. Unfortunately the public arousal and outcry about pollution in general and oil pollution in particular has overshadowed many industrial activities that tend to result in more far-reaching and irreversible damages to the environment than occur from pollution alone. It is the purpose of this paper to point up the many other problems associated with petroleum exploration and production in marine and estuarine areas and to attempt to place oil as a pollutant into proper perspective with these various other activities as they affect the basic ecology of coastal Louisiana.en
dc.identifier.otherAccession # 10596
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/27093
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.locationGBIC Special Collection
dc.publisherWildlife Management Instituteen
dc.subjectpetroleum industryen
dc.subjectocean pollutionen
dc.subjectoil spillsen
dc.subjectenvironmental impacten
dc.subjectUnited States Gulf Coasten
dc.subjectoil developmenten
dc.titleImpacts of Oil on the Gulf Coasten
dc.title.alternativeTransactions of the Thirty-Sixth North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, March 7, 8, 9, 10, 1971en
dc.typeArticleen

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