What should we do with ageing marine structures?
Dr Anaëlle Lemasson co-authored a comment article in Nature saying current legislation needs to be revised

Many of the structures we see in the ocean today were put in place at a time when environmental considerations weren’t in people’s minds.
Dr Anaelle Lemasson
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth and co-author of the Nature comment article
We advocate decommissioning legislation is modified to allow for alternative decommissioning options on a case-by-case basis rather than continuing with the one-size-fits-all approach. In the northeast Atlantic, change ought to allow for alternative options to complete removal, where and when it has been shown that the costs and benefits to the environment and society outweigh those of removal.
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