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2009-10-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Ecuador to Europe: Pay us not to drill in Amazon

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Posted by ed 2009-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Long ago I predicted the UN (or other group) would buy up Amazonian property to protect it from being exploited. That hasnt really happened, yet.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-10-27 08:51|| 2009-10-27 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 eco blackmail = "greenmail"?

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2009-10-27 10:05|| 2009-10-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Kennedy is DEAD, drill offshore Massatuchets NOW.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-10-27 14:18|| 2009-10-27 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 This agreement will last right up to the point where the revenues on the oil will out-strip what they have been paid. then it will be . . . pay us some more . . . then more . . . since you are already in the hole, why not more . . . a little more please?

Then they will invalidate the agreement and drill anyway.

Posted by Jame Retief 2009-10-27 15:22|| 2009-10-27 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, you guys want to go drill in what the natives like to call "The Green Hell", go to it.

Posted by mojo 2009-10-27 16:00|| 2009-10-27 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, I figure he might stick by that agreement.

There's a chance that money and income from drilling will go into the general economy without his approval. But aid money.... paid directly to his government... for him to disperse... ain't _nobody_ getting any money before it's passed through his kidneys first.

Instead of workers getting paid, it's _all_ him and his clients.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-10-27 23:27|| 2009-10-27 23:27|| Front Page Top

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