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Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg was interviewed for this piece about the future consequences of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
From the article:
"The BP spill is likely to throw a wrench" into plans in the U.S. and rest of the world to extract more and more oil from the deep oceans, said Richard Heinberg, an analyst at the Post Carbon Institute."Heavier regulations, and higher and more-expensive standards are on the way," he said. "Future deepwater projects could be delayed by years."Mr. Heinberg said nations have increasingly plumbed the ocean depths in search for oil because "weve already chewed our way down through" most of the more readily available sources. "Theres very little onshore or shallow-water oil left to find. So down we go," he said.The problem is, "as the industry is forced to drill deeper in ever more hostile environments, there are more things to go wrong; and when problems happen, they are harder to fix," he said. "An event such as the Deepwater Horizon explosion becomes more likely with every passing year, despite the continuing development of superior technology" that for the first time opened up the ocean depths in the past decade.
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