Bruce Allen is co-founder of SOS California, an environmental and energy non-profit based in Santa Barbara, California.

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  • Backgrounder posted November 30, 2009 by Bruce Allen How Offshore Oil and Gas Production Benefits the Economy and the Environment

    Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that offshore oil and gas production harms the surrounding environment. This blanket "wisdom" ignores the fact that the largest source of marine hydrocarbon pollution is offshore natural oil seepage. It also ignores the fact that offshore oil production has lowered…