[Coral-List] Help Ban Oil Exploration on the Belize Barrier Reef.
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frahome at yahoo.com
Wed May 4 17:55:50 EDT 2011
With all respect, the statement: "It could bring big bucks and jobs to a
relatively poor country and hopefully bring down the cost of fuel." seems taken
out from a purely demagogic political debate, a lot more emotional and
emotionally appealing than the statements being criticized.
Hoping that the cost of fuel will go down when peak oil has been reached, or
will be soon reached, it's quite an interesting expectation (IEA stated last
November that conventional crude oil peaked in 2006).
Hoping that the involved corporations will share the profit with the poor local
people sounds also quite "naive".
I might be hysterical but I do not feel assured even if they promise me they
won't drill right on top of a coral or my house. Anyway all that is oil and
pro-conventional-growth based it is for me definitely short-sighted even in the
best scenario and unless overcome quickly it will lead to world wide (not just
Belize) disasters, but maybe I have been reading too much
post-carbon/post-growth stuff.
Greetings
Francesca
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From: Eugene Shinn <eshinn at marine.usf.edu>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 7:18:16 PM
Subject: [Coral-List] Help Ban Oil Exploration on the Belize Barrier Reef.
"offshore drilling in Belize will lead to an environmental disaster
from which Belize will never recover."
Now that is as hysterical and emotional as it can get! It would be
good to get your facts in order before making such knee-jerk
reactions. Several wells have already been drilled along the Belize
shelf during the 1960s and 1970s and there were no "disasters" other
than the fact that they did not find any oil.
It would be good to know if they (who ever they are) are planning
deep water drilling or shallow water drilling as was done there in
the past? It makes a big difference. Of course actual discovery of
oil might have a large impact. It could bring big bucks and jobs to a
relatively poor country and hopefully bring down the cost of fuel.
You can be sure that no one is going to drill right on top of a coral
reef. What does a gallon of gasoline costs in Belize? I assume it is
all transported there in tankers which is well known to be the
largest source of oil pollution in the oceans worldwide. Gene
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