>>>-------> THINKING “SOURCE” NOW - The Trinidad Oil Spills - Really Pointe-a-Pierre?? ---| There is currently much significant ongoing petroleum activity in Venezuela’s “Orinoco Petroleum Belt”. Do a Google and look it up. This lucrative area, which has been rated as the Largest Petroleum Reserve in the World, contains an estimated 235 billion barrels of crude oil and is gearing up and already partly into production big-time. The Orinoco Petroleum Belt is located up the Orinoco River, on whose estuary, The Orinoco Delta, Trinidad precariously sits. Pull out your atlases and verify this yourselves. Could the problematic “Mysterious” presence of the Oil Spill off Trinidad’s west coast in the Gulf of Paria have a Venezuelan upstream spillage origin - and little to do with Petrotrin. The latter’s officials and engineers are collectively running around pointing fingers like blind mice and chanting diversionary nonsense about “13 different Spills” and “Union Sabotage”? Is this the mere tip of the Iceberg for the ecological future of Trinidad? If Venezuela is the source, what can Trinidad do about it? And what does the future hold for Trinidad’s vulnerable location right on the Orinoco Delta with any upstream Orinoco Petroleum Belt spill (over)flow partly ending up in Trinidad’s Gulf of Paria or on its South Coast? There are Venezuelan advanced plans already in the works for three large oil refineries with a combined capacity of 800,000 barrels a day right up the Orinoco. What will happen when they have their oil spills as are bound to happen, by any law of averages?? Accidents can, do and will happen. The crux of the matter ... Will Maduro or his successors give a hoot? And, if not, what can Trinidad and Tobago do? T&T’s long-term environmental future is indeed looking GRIM ... Looking ahead ... What if Venezuela and Colombia go to war as they very nearly did thrice in recent times, under Hugo Chavez? Could the oil refineries be bombed as a target by the Colombian air force? And where would the horrendous oil mess from giant ruptured storage tanks end up? BP, the oil giant’s, spill in the Gulf of Mexico of a couple of years ago could turn out to be Chicken Feed in comparison to what could lie ahead due to Venezuelan drilling and refining upstream in Trindad’s backyard. And, by extension, the Southern Caribbean too. John S Archer JSA/jsa SAT18JAN14 |=|
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 06:45:39 +0000
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