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Perhaps Paul is making this point to the Ministry right now.
Perhaps Curtis Williams at The Guardian might pick up on it?
He certainly will if no show by Monday:
[ E-mail the Editor: letters@guardian.co.tt ]
Good point made by David Black on advfn:
'... Interestingly for everyday of delay the daily loss at 200m cfpd is Heritage $80k at $2 NGC $600k at $3 Taxes $112k at 35% Total T&T government revenue forgone per day $792k Or $25m a month. Wonder if the “Bean Counters” there have done those sums, somehow I reckon they have....'
Months ago we were told there were little details like the names of animals in the area not being in latin. I doubt they have latin consultants available on Saturdays. Would love to have actual transcript of the Saturday meeting. What issues could be surfacing now after years of talking about it and 1600 pages of submission to pore over for six months and responses to pore over for two months.
Maybe ayes, maybe nos. On the one hand, PB says the government was working Saturday (unusual), on the other, is anyone really going to get upset on a Carribbean island if it's a couple of days late?!
I don't fink anyone expects it tomorrow? I certainly don't but...
Even if it were - they will not know until later in the day probably and will have to RNS the following day anyway?
All IMHO and DYOR.
Should no update tomorrow .More impatient how many sell.
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Interesting .
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That being said, in Norway, a cleaning lady has to wear a harness and clip in to wash the stairs working for Shell. I was in Nigeria and observed oil running out of a truck onto the quay into the river. I shouted down to the guys to shut the valve that was leaking, they don’t move. I shouted to them again, they turned their heads and looked at me. Shouted again (was aways away from them and it was noisy), and pointed to the valve, they reluctantly went and closed it to stop the leak.
There was a Shell rep on board as they had the vessel on-hire, and I went to tell him. He was talking to the vessel owner. I interrupted the conversation and said there is an oil leak on the quayside. They kept talking. I interrupted again, there’s an oil leak on the quayside and it’s running into the river. He said ok. AND THEY KEPT TALKING! I said it one more time emphasizing that there as actually a lot of oil running into the water. NO REACTION. Shell didn’t give a flying f about oil on the quay, or in the river. Same company, different jurisdictions.
I went down to the quay to take some pictures of the oil alongside the ship. Was later on the bridge and showed one of the guys up there, and then I looked out at the river. What I maybe thought was shadows from clouds earlier, or never really saw it ……. The whole river had oil in it.
The guy on the bridge went on to tell me about how they see bodies floating by sometime, and the people that steal diesel in the middle of the night. They fill up the boat he said. Like a bunch of cans I said, No he said, they just fill up the boat as much as they can and drive off. So the dudes have small boats with outboards and they sit in the diesel they fill up into the boat and drive off.
They were building a heliport on the quay to the airport, so they could stop doing the drive. I did the drive twice, and stayed in a hotel as well. It was almost like a prison for security, but somehow full of prostitutes. Sketchy as F, the whole place. Port Harcourt, as an ROV pilot told me as we were standing outside the airport waiting for our armed escort “train” (I’ve never seen so many machine guns on guys in one place as outside this airport, and I grew up on military bases), the ROV guy says, welcome to the as hole of Africa.
Don’t go there, “why you go there?” a Nigerian guy said to me on the plane to Lagos, he said “I don’t even go there”.
But anyways, you can make it hard and you can make it simple, or non existent. Some middle ground to do things right without too much overkill is the best. Paul said 1600 pages. This sounds like overkill, and is the governments fault for letting it get out of hand. Trinidad needs to streamline processes, and get the rubber stamp moving. It’s costing them money, and it’s costing us money.
Things like the EIA and HSE which became HSEQA are only as difficult and time consuming as you want to make them. HSE initially solved many problems in the oil business, and then when the problems were solved, the people that worked with it had to find new problems to solve in order to have a job. Eventually they had to start inventing problems to have a job and the complexity and costs that these systems have created is absolutely ridiculous. It takes soooo much time and requires documenting things that takes longer than actually building or doing the things the documentation is about. You would have to experience it personally to understand literally how stupid is has become.
That being said, in Norway, a cleaning lady has to wear a harness and clip in to wash the stairs working for Shell. I was in Nigeria an observed oil running out of a truck into the river
If the government does issue the EIA tomorrow then the RNS on Friday morning will end the week/month very nicely… GLA