For the past 12 days the drilling rig (above) has been situated 3.6 miles (6km) from the Dorset coast, in Poole Bay. Photogenic as it may be at night, there have been numerous objections to its presence- none more loudly than those from the Dorset Wildlife Trust.
They (and others) claim that the rig's operations will damage the prized environment of the seabed. The exploratory drilling is taking place within the Solent and Dorset Coast Protection Area. On top of this, the company drilling down 1,800 metres, are licensed to discharge up to 6,753 tonnes of chemical waste into the sea, including eight tonnes of biocide. This, alone, is enough to cause concern for numerous species of marine life that live and breed in the area; the short-snouted seahorse being feared to be particularly at risk
The whole set-up is expected to be gone by the end of the month, but bizarrely the company doing the tests have no plans to return to the site once the well is permanently capped.
Not unless they strike it rich, that is...
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