Donate Take Action  Join us  The Three Myths Of Offshore
Drilling  Myth 1: Offshore drilling is safe.  The Deepwater
Horizon Drilling Disaster is not an isolated incident and
offshore oil drilling is extremely dangerous. Since 2006, the
United States Minerals Management Service (now the Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management) reports that there have been at least
21 offshore rig blowouts, 513 fires or explosions offshore and
30 fatalities from offshore oil and gas activities in the Gulf
of Mexico alone. Over the last few years, significant spills
from offshore drilling have occurred in the U.S., Brazil, China,
the North Sea and Australia, and many of the rigs were operated
by the same multinational oil companies. The so called "safety
measures" that have been put in place since the Deepwater
Horizon disaster are not adequate to prevent another
catastrophe, as explained in the Oceana report False Sense of
Safety.  Myth 2: Offshore drilling will lower gas prices.
Additional offshore oil drilling will not lower gas