1) ARTIFICIAL REEFS:

For around 30 years, offshore oil platforms have been present off the coast of California. During that time period, marine life has spread broadly on and around the oil platform structures, as if the platforms themselves are a part of the marine environment. The adapting marine life around oil platforms has become a common sight lately for most of the other oil structures off the coast of Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. As the oil structures live out their remaining years of oil consumption, one of the issues beneath consideration by the oil companies is whether to eliminate the structures completely or leave them as they exist so the marine habitat remains undisturbed. Some of the environmentalists and fishermen comment that keeping the rigs is an excellent idea because of the increasing amounts of thriving populations of marine life surrounding the rigs. Though, other environmentalists believe that the whole structures should be eliminated, citing that the marine life surrounding the oil structures is not a true marine life habitat.

Answer the given.

What do you think the oil companies must do with the oil rigs?