Saw the comment from Wales and had to respond.
I spent the best part of a month as a volunteer after the Sea Empress oil
tanker disaster back in the 90s filling bins with dead oiled seabirds: gannets,
shags, Manx shearwaters and scoter ducks so I'm afraid I can't share the rosy
sentiment expressed of the Pembrokeshire petro-chem industry.
Pembrokeshire is a far more modified landscape than the kimberly to start with,
and my understanding is that the kimberly development is an order of magnitude
bigger.
The lesson from Wales which Broome should draw is that the job creation
forecasts are always wildly inflated, the economic benefits will mostly flow to
the distant cities but the social and environmental impacts are yours to keep...
Mark Carter
(by iPhone)
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