Yes ThisisOurs you are correct but the difference here is that we were not throwing people in jail and murdering them for their political dissent against the government as was being conducted as part of Apartheid. So we were of political interference but however, we were opposing from a position of moral superiority on that particular issue which can be seen as justified. The US, in this instance cannot. They are the worse offender when it comes to this issue so how do they expect to lecture anyone about it and be taken seriously? It's interfering with our sovereignty which we should not support just because it happens to align with our position. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Sir you are 100% correct. It is hard, but sometimes I have to acknowledge the hypocrisy in the entire environmental activism movement when we pick and chose our battles which are sometimes suspect. When the US is drilling hundreds of wells, right next to all of us in the gulf no one says a word. When the Cubans are to our immediate south leasing offshore blocks and having Russian companies of all people, come down there and drill just a few miles from where this site is, not a whisper. All of a sudden everyone is up in arms like this hasn't been going on for years. I suspect if this had been a US based company and not a UK firm, we would have heard nothing from our learned congressmen who are such fierce protectors of someone else's environment but neglectful of their own. Completely ridiculous. I have been fighting against the use of fossil fuels for years and as I see it there is no political will by the superpower to do anything about this. My house is powered by 100% renewable energy and I plant and harvest my own food. The vehicle I drive is electric. I just wish more people in the movement would get serious and stop making a big deal out of one issue because they like the optics. Meanwhile we call ourselves activists and drive gas-guzzling carbon burping cars and pay electric utility companies for power which results in the release hundreds of tons of toxic material into the atmosphere. Stopping one company from drilling will not have an impact. We need to deal with the big fish first then worry about the small fry.

This is political interference from someone who is worst than anyone else on the issue of offshore drilling. How do you think they became the number one producer of oil in the world.

I oppose the drilling but can't say that I support this interference from another sovereign entity into our affairs. The US is the numero uno oil producer in the world and drill hundreds of offshore wells every year so they should be the last ones lecturing any other nation on the dangers of this activity. They are also the number two carbon emissions country in the world. We would indeed be looking at this differently if they were in favor of this activity and trying to pressure our leaders into permitting it if the government was against it. Which based on their track record could have easily been the case. Just last month they auctioned half a million acres of offshore blocks in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas companies. Now they are telling us what to do. Hypocrisy at its height. Minnis should disregard this and stop this based on what is best for our country, and that should be the only thing driving his decision. Our big brother who just left the Paris accord officially on November 4th is no friend to the environment, they are only concerned with their own interests.

I oppose drilling but can't say I support another sovereign power trying to interfere and "influence" our government by adding political pressure to have us align with their interests. What would happen if they were in fact in favor of this venture and our government wasn't, and they were trying to get them to go ahead with the drilling? This is just wrong. We as a sovereign entity should be deciding this. The US should be the last nation to be lecturing anyone on the environmental dangers of drilling as they are the numero uno oil producer in the world and drill hundreds of offshore wells every year. Not only that they left the paris accord in 2019 and just a month ago leased over half a million acres in the gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas companies in just one day. So they should not be lecturing anyone or interfering with anyone as such. What this says to our government is "I can do it, but I don't trust YOU backwards guys to do it". An insult to say the least. They need to discontinue all their environmental atrocities first before trying to play big brother to someone else. The PM should respond "Mind your own business, we can stop them when we want".