• @grue
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    338 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 hours ago

      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

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      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!

      • @grue
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        77 hours ago

        Alright, you got me. I admit it: Superfund sites are a hoax I invented to push my ‘woke’ agenda!