Drilling for oil in the Bight

is something I would much rather they did not do. I would much prefer they left the whales to swim undisturbed.
It is going to happen of course. It is also better that it happens the way that is planned rather than we be invaded by a hostile nation wanting the oil they think is there.
All this has made me think still more about "renewable" energy sources.
We have solar panels on the roof of the house. There are two lots. One is for the hot water system and the other is what we "feed" back  into the grid. We are trying to do our bit for the environment although I wonder about the energy and waste from the production of the panels. 
The panels for the hot water work well. We can tell that. On a sunny day the hot water is much warmer. There is actually a limiting device to stop the water from over-heating. I am sure that has been working to capacity for the last couple of days. It will be doing the same today and tomorrow - forecast temperatures of 44'C and 45 'C will see to that.
We have to assume that they others work as they are intended to work. My BIL, who knows about such things, has checked them. We get a tiny rebate on our electricity bill.
We are going to need it. I have had the air conditioning on trying to keep the Senior Cat comfortable in the heat. He likes it warmer than I do but he does need to be cooler than it has been. I have set the temperature to his comfort, not mine. He slept through most of yesterday and may well do the same today and tomorrow. 
He was reminiscing last night. His mother had nothing more than a small personal fan. His father had nothing at all. If his father wanted to cool down he would head for the beach, a few minutes walk away. His father swam year round until the last few years of his life. Then, even in a nursing home on the beach front, a staff member would see him across the road and he would "take a dip" in summer. When he had finished he would patiently wait for someone to come along and see him across the road - essential because his eyesight had failed to the point where he could not see well enough to do so safely.
He couldn't do that now. The beach is no longer the clean white beach we children spent so many hours on in the summer. There are seemingly endless metres of seaweed and, with it, snakes. It is no longer safe. "Development" has done this.
It makes me think of drilling for oil in the Bight and what it might do to the environment in which the whales and other marine creatures live. "Development" is not always for the better.