Knowing humans: build additional ones, but also keep these ones working past their eol date, after all, the short-term financial side effects of destroying all the things are negligible, and the profits huuuge.
The “independent” corporation that owns each rig and somehow magically has no affiliation at all with the petroleum company that takes the rig’s output will say “whoops, we have no money to decommission the rig and no assets to seize to pay for it, bye suckers!” and promptly go bankrupt and leave governments holding the bag.
I was gonna go with “pay a marine biologist to publish a paper saying how the rig will become a haven for wildlife playing a vital part in ecosystem “
But I like yours more
Why not both?
How very dare you suggest such a thing. This kind of thinking must come from your warped mind, and very definitely not be based on the slew of mines and chemical plants left to poison the landscape, and especially not the multitude of poorly-capped methane-leaking oil wells scattered around the US by those same companies!
Alright, you got me. I admit it: Superfund sites are a hoax I invented to push my ‘woke’ agenda!
Fossil Fuel Barons: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I am sure it will suddenly be too expensive for them to safely decommission the platforms.
They’ll probably greenwash the whole thing, saying that leaving it up is great for wildlife because it creates a habitat for birds and marine life.