Question

ionel works for an energy company interested in drilling for oil off the coast of a small island. The representative for the local fishing industry, Rochelle, says that locals are vigorously opposed to Lionel’s idea. A town meeting is held. Lionel explains how his company is dedicated to practicing the safest drilling techniques. He explains that oil piped from the ocean’s floor is purer and that it can be harvested in a more efficient way than an oil rig on land. Lionel also emphasizes how much the trucks carrying fish to the markets all over the country would save if local oil was able to be used. Rochelle fires back that in the past, serious accidents with offshore oil drilling have been reported. She points out that if there were a spill, the resulting death of fish would cost the local fisherman their livelihood. Local opinion on the issue is split. Before the town agrees to side with Lionel’s energy company or Rochelle’s local fish industry, officials order a report from

Answer 1

Answer: Rochelle

Explanation:

The Biotechnologist would most likely side with Rochelle because as a Biotechnologist, their job is to study living organisms with a view to improve processes and products. Biotechnologists are the people who are called when an oil spill happens and they need to clean up the ecosystem.

They therefore would most likely side with groups to prevent the adverse effects of oil spills on the environment which is what Rochelle is doing because she is absolutely right that there have been very disastrous offshore oil drilling accidents such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that can completely wipe out the livelihood of the local fishermen by polluting the water and killing the organisms therein.