RE: A production well5 Jan 2021 22:29
The granting of the judicial review stinks, it is absolutely unbelievable and the whole case by Fred Smith is being financed by a few super-rich individuals who have little regard for the general well being of the majority of the population. The Bahamas had a national debt at $8.88 Billion ( pre-covid ) on a population of less than 400,00 and unemployment pre-covid at 14.4% (pre-covid). The national minimum wage is a paltry $5.25 an hour. Tourism the only real source of income has been at a total standstill for 12 months and I for one can't see cruises that are predominantly for over 65's turning up in their hundreds of thousands in the Bahamas fairly soon. Who in their right mind in their 70's would jump on a cruise liner full of thousands of elderly vulnerable people with this COVID virus even allowing for a vaccine in the foreseeable future. So the Bahamas can say goodbye to their main revenue stream for the next 3-5 years. The so-called environmentalists obtain a judicial review, well-done judge!
If they find oil are they actually going to let hundreds of millions, if not billions of oil revenue rest in their waters because a few superrich hoteliers and environmentalists don't like it. If they do the country will never progress. The Bahamas would be saying goodbye to billions of dollars in royalty revenues let alone thousands of jobs that would be created. I am seriously losing the will to live with these politicians and the judicial system. Can you imagine Margaret Thatcher in the 1970's saying no we don't want the North Sea Oil because we are worried that some of the oil might get on to the Scottish beaches or the Norwegian government who are now one of the richest countries in the world stating? "Leave it in the ground lads we can rely on the herring". If BPC finds an ocean of oil and Fred Smith wins, the Bahamas only have themselves to blame and deserved to be sued by BPC for hundreds of millions. Like I said you couldn't make this up. If there was a film about it no one would believe it.