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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by INTPenis on Friday April 03, 2020 @09:46AM (#22769073)
Why are people downvoting this? It's the real danger of finding a rain forrest beneath antarctica. Of course the oil companies already know about it.

Maybe we're too cynical but money runs the world and money will eventually bypass all environmental protections and start drilling antarctica unless we switch to more reusable energy before that.

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Re:Evidence of 90M-year-old rainforest uncovered beneath Ant... by vsareto on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:56PM (#22771380)
Oil in Antarctica won't happen because of the price of running and shipping things down there. It's way different than finding a new oilfield in a country with roads and an established supply chain. I don't even think you could build pipelines that go from fields to a shipping port because of the snow and ice.
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