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Blue Latitudes | Turning Oil Rigs into Coral Reefs! | Episode 029
23 minutes Posted Jan 20, 2020 at 12:00 am.
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Join us for another episode recorded in Dallas at EarthX 2019! This week we're sitting with Emily Hazelwood and Amber Jackson-Sparks, two leaders in the Rigs-to-Reefs movement and the co-founders of Blue Latitudes! Their company designs sustainable, creative, and cost effective solutions for environmental issues in the offshore industry. Offshore oil rigs are massive pieces of infrastructure that are put in place for decades at a time to extract petroleum, but once the oil reserve has been depleted a new issue arrises: what to do about the infrastructure left behind? Emily and Amber argue that after decades in the ocean the structure has built up an incredible amount of sea life, and that it's beneficial to allow everything below the surface to remain. In fact, these man-mad oases can become important safe-houses for marine life in an increasingly over-harvested ocean!
To learn more about our nonprofit, click here: https://www.lastchanceendeavors.com
To learn more about Blue Latitudes, click here: http://www.rig2reefexploration.org