If some man came into your home with spoken intent to rape your mother, or your wife or your daughter, what would you do? What is the difference here? The "drilling" they will be doing, deep into our mother's womb is no different. We have merely deadened our intellect and our soul, so that we do not feel what we are allowing to happen. Do Bahamians deserve The Bahamas, given what we are sactioning? The intelligent world is fast moving away from fossil fuels while we still listen to the men from England, selling our souls for a promised buck from the foreigner
No, now that I think about it, we don't deserve this beautiful place.

What a disgusting, repugnant comment. There are no parallels here.
The government sold BPC the rights to explore for oil and with that, comes a contractual OBLIGATION for BPC to drill this well.

The Bahamas runs on fossil fuel. It's how the tourists get there and it's how you run your cars and boats. Currently all of your oil needs are met by oil that is tankered to your islands at an inflated cost, from a foreign country.

No parellels. Of course not. Oil is a gift from heaven.

Nelly. That is how we feel. That is how YOU and your fellow BPC gamble and get rich people are making us feel\. This is a terrible deal for the Bahamas. It will not help us pay our bills and exposes us to all the risk. Petro-colonialism, pure and simple. It is a rape and a pillage. How many shares in BPC do you have? Don't come in here without declaring your interest. Shameful.

You are also just wrong. Any contractual obligation is null and void if BPC obtained its permits and licenses via a process that violated the law. Just watch and see.

Na let me get dis strate. These people want spend 57 million of dey own money to tell us whether we have something that worth 5 Biolion and that’s y’all opposed to this. Dey spending there own money ean like the govment gatta put no money in it and stand to profit if they find something. I hope Minniss dem gat more sense of than to let this go by. Leaving money in da ground ean make no sense. People dem drilling all over the place all round us in the gulf and right next to us down in Cuba, and ain no oils spilling for dem but yet when it’s time for Bahamians to get some money all of a sudden it so risky it shouldn’t be done? I read where they say big tankurs dem always moving through the Bahamas and we gat all kinda storage tank in Freeport so seems like we already taking risks with oil. If it so risky we shouldn’t let the tankurs dem come thru our waterways. So this no drill argament seem just like this whole Covid fraud. Just a way for people with money to stop us poor unemployed people from getting anything. I ain work since March so if the govment gone get some money from oil to help me out I support it 100%. After all if oil so dangerous why BPL using it to tun on the light? Why the gas station using it to make gas? Why da plane using it, to get ya to Miami? It everywhere so can’t be dat bad. Like president Trump say no one even have no proof of what these people calling clymate change. Could just be a natural cycle the earth going through like it says in the book of Ecclesiastes. Anyway that my five cents.

As some more astute would say, it's ignorance that will take this country down
Have a referendum, like the decent thing they should have done in the first place.

A referendum is a great idea. But it should be done once all the information is available. When the amount of oil, if any, is quantified, then the discussion can really be a cost / benefit discussion. For the time being it's just dooms day vs riches. You have a clear vision of a doomsday as illustrated by your initial comment here. Let's put the riches in human terms also, so Bahamians can vote with all the information available to them.

Everyone needs oil, planes for tourists you name it oil is in it these days.

" it's ignorance that will take this country down"
You mean lower and more ignorant than we already are? Surely you jest, Sir?

This is a fake Bahamian. "Tankurs". Now the foreigners are trying to pose as us? This is what you think we sound like?? How insulting. See why no one wants yall here?

See dis the sam mess. I ain come on here dissin no one and yinna come on here gettin all personnel. I say how I feel but da wibe and no one can change my mind. Y'ALL AIN MAKIN NO SENSE. yall person who call yasef enviranmentalis does act like yall care bout a envirament more than people. dats' why no one does be on yall run. I might not be smart in book work like y'all but i have commin sense like da man say. And I ean no one on here so don care what yall tink. Eryone ain rich and live out west and gern to privut school. Start from Shirley street side a kemp road an stop on wulff road. No one y'all ask wood be in favar a leavin money in da ground. So if ya outa touch with the commin man den come down off ya high horse and find out what we tink. Da people suffering and dis country need money, maybe not yall rich guy who still ga ya big job making big money. Hotel close and ean no tourist. y'all ain tinkin. so stick to da topic and don start dissin cuz eryone differint and have differint back ground.

If they wanna protest they can. I hope they ride bike and don’t drive big truck. I wonder if they power their boats with conch slop and fish guts.

Why waste money on a referendum? Most Bahamians believe sip-sip rather than true facts.

Islandboy has it figured out. Common sense rules.

You might be islandboy too. Thank you Canadian opportunist friend of The Bahamas. Notice the fear mongering among all the misguided scientists. World leaders, the head of the UN, all asking for All nations to declare a climate emergency? Why do you side with those on the lowest side of the IQ charts? Oh, I do have an idea. You have a financial stake in seeing sea level rise faster. Why do you always get quiet Columbo when I challenge you to mutually expose our identities? What do you have to worry about?

Of course he is island boy. He asked one of the landscapers around the luxury gated community where BPC has put him up to translate his nonsense into Bahamianese. He is a paid for oil company troll. A Colombus come to colonialize.

Mister. tank u for da cumpliment. Unlike these too so called bahamian above at least ya recognize commin sense when you hear it. Don have to be book smart to have a openion there is all kinds a IQ and smarts. I have street smarts which is differint. My grammy usta call me wise when she was alive. We don have to all agree but people on here look like dey does catch feelins easy. I stand by what I say, i tink it good for da country.

Exactly.

Fred Smith will fight any losing challenge to line his pocket.

Stick with the issue Banana. Drilling for oil is the issue. How long have you known Fred Smith? Or, is your knowledge of him limited to your financial interest in the oil? Just asking.

Oh here he is... more points than a porcupine.

;-)

So first you share Peter Nygard's propaganda, and now you are taking talking points for Fred Mitchell. Boy, BPC is about as PLP as they come! More PLP than Laura by the fruit stand. Listen bro, if you are going to come on here posing as "Bahama7" at least put in the effort that ColombusPillow does. Try and find a Bahamian to vet and correct your statements. Fred Smith doesn't make money off this kind of work. He has many many big corporate clients who make him rich. He does this in his spare time because he likes the fight. And he is very very good at it. Y'all have no idea what you are up against. Bring on the court case! Where is the popcorn?

Banana is simply paid to provoke us and try and keep us distracted. He / she will be gone as quickly as they arrived. Empty suits.

Welcome back voly, I was worried about you.

Have you paid Fred his wages for leading you down the garden path into a dead end? I hope he gave you boys a discount the scoundrel.

He has played you like a fiddle to boost his ego.