Of course they're trouble. Anything that disturbs the earth is trouble. The answer is to mitigate those problems. Technology has come a long way to do this. And mother earth and daughter ocean also go a long way in healing themselves. There needs be a balance along the continuum of rapacious usage and don't touch pristine. We used to call that balance conservation. We seem to be on the pristine side of the continuum these days. We call that environmentalism. Rapaciousness is just plain greed.