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You make that sound like it isn’t an issue. Massive ocean die-offs in a localized area is still a very bad thing.
There’s a reason why oil spills are treated with such seriousness. Globally, an oil spill is also not a problem.
It depends on how local we’re talking about. If you build a pipe out of the littoral zone into the ocean with multiple outputs you likely wouldn’t kill much of anything but a few plankton. The intake pipe is often worse than the output pipe for wildlife.
For a place like, say, the the Persian Gulf, that uses oil for heat desal and gets their intake and output from a sea so it’s all littoral and doesn’t as quickly exchange it’s water with the ocean, of course it’s an environmental nightmare. It’s naturally saltier without desal because of the higher evaporation rate and small comparative inlet size of the straight of hormuz, but at this point its 25% saltier than the rest of the ocean thanks to that desal.
Are you trying to spell literal? Not trying to be a dick, just unsure if you have a different word in mind.
“Littoral” is effectively equivalent to “nearshore”. Makes sense as written.