Let me just post my 2 cents and be on my way. First off its very counterproductive to have most of the article mainly stating radical environmentalist groups (who would see our country not prosper on oil as other countries did and rather cling to the vain hope of tourism and fisheries). Im not going to deal with the environmental people long because they are one in the same so let's list off some points:
1. The Bahamas drilling will inevitably lead to Oil spill. ans: No just no, The oil explorer team has accomplished and experienced drill team on board they know how to handle themselves (they've been doing this on 25+ oil wells (NONE has spilled). Second the premise of this argument from the environmentalist is flawed why do they assume the government has no safety net or practically legislation on the books to handle oil spills? May I remind them that the Minister for environment is an environmental lawyer (As a legal minded person I can’t accurately convey the description of how useless a environment lawyer is outside of environment safety is, like they have a lot of free time) Believe me Romy isn’t gonna let the company haphazardly drill without the proper safety precautions.
2. Bahamas should fear America. ans: Nope we really shouldn’t, America has oil explorations in plenty of countries with oil rigs off of the coast of other nations. They are still fine, NO huge oil spills on either of them at the current time. Lastly this may sound cliché but we are a sovereign country that means we make our own rules, sure America can try to influence but Trump really doesn’t care nor does most republicans sooo it’s a dead move.
3. The 15 congressmen and women. ans: So what? Most of them are either democrats who are environment hawks and maybe 1 republican who doesn’t know any better and trying to get brownie points in a purple district. Nobody in the trump admin cares, to see you all care about this in such a way and to try to use this in a meaningful way is laughable and embarrassing, there are over 400+ congressional seats and only 15 democrats came up and talked? Like who cares let them kick rocks.
4. We should not use oil its dying. ans: Lies, its down at the current moment but as you should know that commodities fluctuate meaning they go down some and go up some. Right now it’s a bad time but that doesn’t mean its going to be down forever. That’s like saying during the great depression to not own stocks anymore cuz they are dead now and aren’t coming back.
5. We could use other alternatives to oil. ans: Ok, list them because all I am hearing from the environment groups are fishes, fishes and tourism and look where that got us. I swear it takes a special kind of un-intelligence to spout those lines that I read in the above article like how can you say we can sell our fishes yet the same environmentalist are in the same groups who oppose us joining the WTO the same group we should be using to trade with other nations.
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Let me just post my 2 cents and be on my way. First off its very counterproductive to have most of the article mainly stating radical environmentalist groups (who would see our country not prosper on oil as other countries did and rather cling to the vain hope of tourism and fisheries). Im not going to deal with the environmental people long because they are one in the same so let's list off some points:
1. The Bahamas drilling will inevitably lead to Oil spill.
ans: No just no, The oil explorer team has accomplished and experienced drill team on board they know how to handle themselves (they've been doing this on 25+ oil wells (NONE has spilled). Second the premise of this argument from the environmentalist is flawed why do they assume the government has no safety net or practically legislation on the books to handle oil spills? May I remind them that the Minister for environment is an environmental lawyer (As a legal minded person I can’t accurately convey the description of how useless a environment lawyer is outside of environment safety is, like they have a lot of free time) Believe me Romy isn’t gonna let the company haphazardly drill without the proper safety precautions.
2. Bahamas should fear America.
ans: Nope we really shouldn’t, America has oil explorations in plenty of countries with oil rigs off of the coast of other nations. They are still fine, NO huge oil spills on either of them at the current time. Lastly this may sound cliché but we are a sovereign country that means we make our own rules, sure America can try to influence but Trump really doesn’t care nor does most republicans sooo it’s a dead move.
3. The 15 congressmen and women.
ans: So what? Most of them are either democrats who are environment hawks and maybe 1 republican who doesn’t know any better and trying to get brownie points in a purple district. Nobody in the trump admin cares, to see you all care about this in such a way and to try to use this in a meaningful way is laughable and embarrassing, there are over 400+ congressional seats and only 15 democrats came up and talked? Like who cares let them kick rocks.
4. We should not use oil its dying.
ans: Lies, its down at the current moment but as you should know that commodities fluctuate meaning they go down some and go up some. Right now it’s a bad time but that doesn’t mean its going to be down forever. That’s like saying during the great depression to not own stocks anymore cuz they are dead now and aren’t coming back.
5. We could use other alternatives to oil.
ans: Ok, list them because all I am hearing from the environment groups are fishes, fishes and tourism and look where that got us. I swear it takes a special kind of un-intelligence to spout those lines that I read in the above article like how can you say we can sell our fishes yet the same environmentalist are in the same groups who oppose us joining the WTO the same group we should be using to trade with other nations.
On US call to halt Bahamian oil
Posted 21 April 2020, 12:42 a.m. Suggest removal