Ironvelvet 12 years, 5 months ago on 'Country will decide on oil exploration'
'Country will decide on oil exploration'
This decision should not be made by the general public! I think to do so is a clear manipulative way to do the oil drilling anyway even though the government knows it would be wrong. They want to in the future be able to say that when things go wrong this is what the people said they wanted.
This should be decided by the experts. Environmentalists need to weigh in on this issue and science should predominate. Evidence based opinions need only apply.
Have we forgotten about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that spewed in the Gulf for months and months? I personally try not to think about it when I enjoy my favorite raw oysters in New Orleans. I tell myself, its just this one time. Have we taken for granted that the environment of the Bahamas is what feeds us literally and figuratively? Tourism would suffer an immediate death. That blue water you can see your feet in would cease to exist. The fish and conch that Bahamians and tourist live by would be dead or mutated.
When is our country going to look into alternative fuels on a serious level? When is our country going to look at solar power on a serious level? It is a furnace for the majority of the year. Its time for Bahamians to invest in science. Invest in research. Take the science seriously. Its time for Bahamians to be innovators not regurgitators of concepts fed to us.
And jobs? How many Bahamians do you know are qualified to work on an oil rig? Give me a break, the only jobs you are creating are foreign jobs. How much longer are we going to allow foreigners to exploit us?
Regulations?! What regulations? BP oil spill happened in America, what kind of regulations are they going to provide this little Bahamas that means nothing to them. Most things in the Bahamas run slack as it is. Ya'll need to think about the "Govment worka" song when ya'll think about the promise of "strict regulations"
If this comes to fruition I will come home and protest on Rawson Square with a vengeance! The wall street "occupy" will be a joke compared to what I will organize.
concernedcitizen 12 years, 5 months ago on 'Country will decide on oil exploration'
'Country will decide on oil exploration'
does the president of BPC have a crystal ball,before cabinent even meets he knows what they are going to do !!!!!!!!!!!! what scares me most if we have a referendom ,who will moniter it ,and will visions of oil wealth cloud peoples judgement ....if we are going to drill for oil why do we need BPC between our resources and our treasury ,why not deal directly with the company that drills ,,,PM PGC is Mr Gucwa and BPC now setting our parlamentary schedule ????????????????