Falklands’ government advances in options for a proposed new port facility
A paper relating to further work on options for the proposed new port facility for the Falkland Islands was presented to the latest Executive Council Meeting by the Falkland Islands Government Projects Director.
A press release from the Projects Director noted that the provision of additional port facilities within the Falkland Islands has long been considered, including a number of consultative phases by various bodies and organisations.
In December 2011, ExCo was presented with a number of options to consider with regard to moving the planning phase of this project forward within this calendar year. ExCo's recommendations included:
Approving the inclusion of Mare Harbour, the MPA port facility, as a potential site,
Agreeing the potential joint use of Mare Harbour on an incremental basis in order to prove both the potential shared use of the facility and its suitability for private industry traffic,
Agreeing that Port Harriet and Ordnance Point should no longer be considered as potential sites,
Approving a process of industry and public consultation in respect of the final sites proposed, those being Mare Harbour, Stanley Harbour (FIPASS) and Navy Point (Port William).
Agreeing that technical surveys of un-established sites (Port William) should proceed concurrently with public consultation,
Resolving to review the list of potential port sites on receipt of responses from pubic consultation prior to approving further expenditure”
As per the ExCo recommendation, the next steps within the project are for the FIG Projects Director to undertake a joint industry and public consultation process during late February. FIG is aware that both industry and the public have been widely consulted throughout the initial stages of the project. There has, however, been significant progress of late, and it is these developments and new pieces of information that FIG are keen to share with both industry and the community and to gain an insight and thoughts on future plans or need.
The FIG Projects Director is very keen to draw together as much industry and public opinion throughout this process as possible in order to prepare a report to ExCo. The Projects Director welcomes approaches from any interested party regarding;
- a feeling on how the current facilities are meeting the present demands of various industries; how current facilities may cope with any future demands; - the requirements of the proposed port development and a view on the various proposed locations.
- FIG will release a detailed industry and public consultation plan shortly.
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But whatever it looks like in the coming years, it will be A embarrassment to Argentina, considering it would have been built elsewhere, and she could have participated so much, but sadly ends up with so little .
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But whatever it looks like in the coming years, it will be A embarrassment to Argentina, considering it would have been built elsewhere, and she could have participated so much, but sadly ends
Nothing MAlvinas can do WITHOUT the trades with the neighbours Just look at it..after 180 years only 2000 people....
brits stupidity and crookedness at is best..
Love it!
But once in the market, the Falklands oil will as any other affect global prices, which benefits everyone regardless.
Indeed without the blockade, Gibraltar would have been far less British, than it is today and far less unique.
Keep up your rhetoric and blockades, the Falkland Islanders are growing more and more prosperous as the Argentine economy spins into the abis.
Argentines have never been known for their intelligence, only for their nationalism and look where that's got them! LOL
and a few loyal bloggers .
Your beloved leader will not be happy with you, saying that Argentina is a colonial power!
We can be strong again, with all our might and all our passion directed at Las Malvinas and ignore all our problem at home, we can again be strong
so you fully admit publicly on here, that you know argentina just wants its very own EMPIRE, is that what you are stating .
Perhaps in another 30 years when the islanders are enormously wealthy from the oil revenue they will all move to Monaco and leave you a dry husk. The won't of course because they have a unique way of life on the islands and it has been there home for many generations. I wish them great wealth and prosperity and a Bugati Veyron each :-)
13 Glen1976 , the islanders will appreciate that .
Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.
Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.
It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.
But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.
In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.
At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't!
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