How about this, I'll set arrange a town meeting and we can debate this in front of the people of San Pedro. You can bring next speaker if you like, anyone will do, Roaring would be fun. Questions from the floor and all that. We will only have room for a few hundred but it will be Mayor and Town Council, probably the minister of tourism, Tour Guides Association, Realtors, SPCCD, SPBA, SP Chamber of Commerce, Green Reef.
Mike. Again this is very disingenuous. You are perfectly aware that I am on a deep water drilling program in South East Asia, and would not be able to attend. And yet you seem to think that I should drop everything and attend your 'meeting'.
No doubt when I say no thanks, you will shout from the roof tops that I didn't dare, or couldn't be bothered, or was scared that I would be unable to substantiate any facts.
But I have already told you that I would not join in anything that you organised, or were a part of, and would much rather work with the government of Belize in a calm and sensible manner. You firmly believe in trial by newspaper, and megaphone diplomacy. When you are taken to task about your slanted views, you immediately jump up and down and scream insults.
You like bullying huh, most bullies feel just like you when they get bullied back.
I abhor bullying, and I will always, with no exception, go after those who do bully. You have constantly tried to denigrate me since the beginning of this debate, and have posted lies, misrepresentation, and insults. You do this quite gleefully secure in the knowledge that right now, because of the appalling mess in the Gulf, people who are willing to speak up for the benefits of drilling will be shouted down. Not shouted down because their views have no merit, but shouted down by people who have been force fed scary stories by the media (and yourself), and have not been able to obtain a balanced view.
You know the issues and ignore them and pretend we are all extremists because its your only real argument. You know there is always a chance of something going wrong. In Belize stuff goes wrong that goes wrong nowhere else in the world.
Now here we go yet again. Are you trying to suggest that the laws of physics apply differently in Belize? It is an irrational thing to suggest. Belize would be one of the most benign places in the world to drill, and it would be routine.
Its the nature of the place , I dont think its worth taking a chance on considering the state of our govt. More oil that is produced the more that will be transported past the reef and the higher the risk of an accident, as you very well know. The most hazardous of your listed activities is transporting in Belize waters unquestionably. The other two are almost a wash. If its not drilled it wont be transported the more drilling the more transportation and risk as you know. 50 times more drilling means 50 times more chance of transportation accident.
You obviously put zero thought into this didn't you? You blurt out statements without doing proper research.
If Belize did strike oil in the waters outside of the reef, the oil would be produced by an FPSO. The transport would be loaded offshore, and never come near the reef.
Also fifty times more drilling does not in any way shape or form equal fifty times more chance of a transport accident. Where did you get this mathematics? The vast majority of wells drilled don't yield anything more than geological information. Even if everyone of them did strike oil, the amount of transport movements would probably not increase by much, you would just get a bigger tanker.
I thought that was so obvious as to not need to be mentioned but I suppose it is really the crux of the issue. Generally our boat accidents just tear up a bunch of fiberglass. We do need to be more careful with all pollution of the sea, including our boats. Hard to use that as a justification to drill for oil though.
Well it obviously wasn't obvious was it as you got it so badly wrong?
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