Black gold?

As a once regular, and now occasional visitor to the Canary Islands, how do I feel about the news that the Spanish government is to give permission for offshore oil drilling in the area?  The perceived danger of course is that some sort of accident could result in spillage which could devastate the tourist beaches and ruin the local economy.  But the local economy relies at present on tourists who get there by boat or plane, both of which use oil for fuel, so it works both ways - you need the oil to get the tourists.  So provided the drilling platforms will not be visible from the beaches - which I am sure they will not - it strikes me as being a fair trade-off.  Of course, if I lived in the Canaries, I might well think differently.