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Powerless by Steve Payne
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says: what if BP could kick America around like a developing nation? We
doubt the Federal Republic of Nigeria would have received $20billion if the
disaster had occured in the Gulf of Bonny. Please note that the opinions
expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
June 15th
on this day in 2010, President Bobby Jindal revoked the
deep-water drilling licenses that the Republic of Louisiana had granted to
the Royal British Petroleum Company for the period 2001 through 2013.
"There should be an international manhunt for the BP
executives if they don't cough up the $20 billion" - Readers CommentThe
huge offshore oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion on 20th
April had created an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. But
the trouble was that the financial resources of the independent maritime
American states were dwarfed by the Royal British Petroleum Company. And
their British executives were less than willing to pay compensation,
estimated at $20 billion and thus representing circa four month's turnover
for the company. In fact the $69 million dollars spent so far by the
Republic of Louisiana was directly comparable to the $50m spent on marketing
by the Royal British Petroleum Company. And whilst the company focused on
technical issues like how to ensure Internet Search Engines ranked their
corporate web site first on deepwater keyword searches, the Republic's
invoice for $69m was sitting unpaid in their accounting office in London.
The International Community had responded, with over thirteen donor
countries offering assistance. Unfortunately, financial, but not
technological support was on offer. Because the solution to the problem
required the rapid deployment of the most advanced technology available to
mankind. And that could only come from one place, the rump United States
located on the Eastern Seaboard and therefore largely unaffected by the
crisis.
Accordingly, the President of the Republic of Florida Charles Crist had
written a letter to Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell requesting
safe passage for Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp and his US Army
Corps of Engineers. Fearing a creeping loss of territorial integrity akin to
the oil now leaking onto the shores of the Gulf States, the desire for
Manifest Destiny began to enter the souls of many Americans for the first
time in over two centuries.
Author
says to view guest historian's comments on this post please visit the
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Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit
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