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05/16/12 01:13
The 30th anniversary of Britain's invasion of the Falklands to remove an occupation force sent by Argentinian military dictator General Galtieri, comes at a time of renewed controversy over the British presence in the region writes Alan Thornett . The islands are adjacent to Argentina but 8,000 miles from Britain. The new controversy has been triggered by the escalating rush for oil and gas drilling, which is now around the Falklands—or the Malvinas as they are known in Argentina,
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IV448 - May 2012
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05/16/12 01:09
First of all, a premise. The Malvinas (called the Falkland Islands by the British) are Argentine because they were occupied by force, populated by foreign settlers and maintained under British occupation from the beginning of the 19th century, in 1833. Since then, Argentine governments have regularly denounced this theft. However, the demand for the return of the Malvinas has only been at the forefront of national politics in two periods: in 1982 at the beginning of the death agony of the military dictatorship, when it was being unsettled by strikes, demonstrations and mass movements, and now, under the second presidential term of Cristina Fernandez Kirchner. In fact, she said and did nothing important about this subject during her first term, or when she was a Senator under the presidency of Menem. All the dictatorships from 1955 to 1976, like the governments of Perón and Peronism showed no concern with the Malvinas.
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IV448 - May 2012
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Argentina,
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05/13/12 16:47
This article, written obviously before the latest elections, give a picture of the effects of the austerity plans, against which the Greek people protested in their votes on May 6.
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IV448 - May 2012
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Greece
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link to USGS study, comments
That Gulf Restoration 50% number comes from this USGS Report:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-418/
noting a pattern of subsiding Interior wetlands associated with the oil and gas pipeline canals. the oil and gas pipelines themselves account for 11% of loss, and this pattern 25%. there's a squishier category -"Land Loss due to Altered Hydrology --Multiple Causes", which is 22% of total land loss pre-1990. You'll see scientists and other coordinator class types hedging, and using a more conservative figure like 30% of loss.
But my point is that much of the news media and older folks will talk about land loss as "erosion," when the majority of the loss is interior ponding, away from boat traffic and much other wave action, largely because of pipeline and other canals. I've heard this referred to in other places as "canal builders effect."
2) oil and gas PR (America's Wetlands) would rather the US Gov't pay for the entire restoration plan. The PR response to GRN's campaign for legal liability was to blame the nutria. many decision maker types see this crisis as a way to get a hand up on oil and gas, and make them pay for their share of coastal restoration--Jindal has called for BP to pay for the reestablishment of the Chandeleur Islands. So yes, this game is being played same as in 1930.
3) Shell, in relation to the other giants (BP/Amoco, Exxon, etc) has more "exposure" to the wetlands issue, given that they own many of the pipelines that are becoming more and more vulnerable to wave action, because of the land loss they have spurred.
4) I am wondering about how clamping down on oil production in the Gulf, should it ever happen, will affect production by these companies in other places, like the Niger Delta, which suffers many of the same ills to worse effect.
thanks for your article