I sincerly hope they take into consideration that this is only one of 2 excisting calving places of whales... which is of vital importance of survival of this breed... most importantly...
and secondly that this is also something which brings a lot of tourists down, and provides income for a lot of the locals...
then again.... what is the income of some locals, and the survival of a breed,compared to oil dollars...
let's hope the company in question is BP... they have no money to spare now anyways...
woohahahaha
sooo true.
but sadly i would say it doesn't matter if the hammer running into the ground is sponsored by BP or Shell or who ever..,
it would hit the mother earth and it ''would'' hit hard.
i just really hope that they will never start such,
under the present situation of this Gubmint oil and gas concessions would simply mean that the corrupts allow the companies to just do what ever they want to.
look on the gulf to see the outcome of concessions given by the smart first world, sow what security can we expect from concessions given by a money seeking corrupt Island Gubmint??
Ginnie,
sorrily YES,
they mean the Silverbanks,
it is a protected area for mother nature,
and they will face a armed revolution at the moment they wanna invade such grounds, it will never happen, for no money of the globe.
an incident there of just 10% of the american Gulf Mess would kill north and east coast of this Isle within a few months, including our Island's vital water reservoir Los Haitises in Samana Bay, Birds Key, the Beaches of Punta Cana, it would bring unemployment to half of the poplulation of this country in a fraction of a second.
i really hope for international powers to step in for the Silverbanks and anything else in vicinity of our shoreline, a project there would be a non-reversible mess, again.
the northeast, east and southeast of the Isle is a vital point on the migrating route of a significant high percentage of the mayor spezies in the atlantic Ocean, northern and southern hemisphere alike, bothering that would not be something humans would be able to control.
the fishermen in the southern US/Gulf Coast will not produce anything worth the efford for a generation or two. and there been quiet a large number of people employed in that industry.
heck,
they think with a 20 billions $$$ settlement a lil incident in the Gulf can be ""repaired"". you can punish BP to dead/bancruptcy, but you can't repair with it, and that been well known from the beginning.
what i anyways wonder about is the fact that the rest of the numerous spots still goes on to produce under similar conditions, like Deepwater Horizon would have been something unique/special/out of the ordinary.
it isnt, it it just one of many, and all contain the same bombs hidden in 'em 24/7/365.
verys sad,
and I have no solution to add, neither.
Mike