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Falklands Chamber of Commerce re-elects Spink; forecast of busy 2015 propped by oil and squid
Falkland Islands economy will keep growing and businesses will be busy next year spurred by the oil industry and better Illex catches, anticipated Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce, FICOC, Roger Spink who was re-elected as head of the Board of Directors. Read full article
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Aug 01st, 2014 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Chairman Roger Spink said, “the growth of the economy due to oil exploration in early 2015 and better Ilex catches should keep all businesses busy in the coming year.”
“Think” has one minor and one mayor correction to Mr. Spinks above paragraph...:
1) The oil platform will, at best, be arriving to Malvinas on the third quarter of 2015... That makes for LATE 2015.
2) SINCE BLOODY WHEN are we able to predict next year's Ilex catches???
I think Mr. Spink should restrain from lying so directly in Kelperland....
Them little Kelper bunch may be unsophisticated.... but they ain't no turnips....
“Should.”
Aug 01st, 2014 - 04:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0An indicated or expected state.
Comprehension El Think.
Think- The article refers to growth in the economy due to oil exploration in early 2015. That is undoubtedly correct - the growth in the economy occurs long before the rig actually arrives, or starts drilling, or finds anything, or nothing. The economy benefits from all the activities associated with the business.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 06:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor Think....spewing and crying that his long awaited “cost-per-kelper” equation has come to nothing.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Poor poor poor Think...a life wasted trolling on something irrelevant.
@ 1
Aug 01st, 2014 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Eirik Raude is due early next year, may be even late Dec thus year. Unless of course you know different?
Keep watching the skies ;)
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/details/ships/308463000/vessel:EIRIK_RAUDE
Think - Deepwater rig E.Raude is due to arrive end first quarter 2015 for next phase of exploration drilling. Maybe you have confused it with the next stage announcement on SeaLion proposed development which is likley second half 2015.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0E.Raude likley to be on site for about 7-9 months min as some deeper wells planned are 60 days. But she could well stay longer .depending on what the first drills find.
Squid - misquote by the media - he refers really to the extra business from the recent bonanza season for Ilex - but the Lologo results have been good for a couple of years also and they are firmly inside our zone all the time.
Agree with you though- for all we know next Ilex season could see a minor sea temp or current change and there could be bugger all squid - or thousands of tons again!
(6) Islander1
Aug 01st, 2014 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) I haven't confused anything...
My info is that the Lukoil contract on that rig may be prolonged some months... As usual with all things oil...,we will have to wait and see...
2) Spink being misquoted by Mercopress?
I can relate to that! They do it all the time with us Argies ;-)
My apologies to him then......
@7
Aug 01st, 2014 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the fishing forecast by Spink is an 'Argentine' forecast and goes t1ts up then the Islands have a reserve which is built up every year.
If FIG ran their economy like their would-be imperial masters they would be haggling to a USA court to avoid paying back all of their debts.
Thank you for your concern about our welfare sr Think, but we can manage without you.
Aug 01st, 2014 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Really we can.
lts nice to know, however that you're thinking about us.
Blessed be & Peace
Think
Aug 02nd, 2014 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Buenos Aires would complain to the UN over the oil project and might take the case to the ICJ in the Hague,' Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, February 2010. Why is it taking soooo l o n g?
chamber of commerce?
Aug 05th, 2014 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0in the islets?
what for?
as the whole world knows, they don´t have anything worth to be commercialized.
ls that so, pauliie-boy?
Aug 05th, 2014 - 09:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Then why do you malvinistas desire our land so strongly?
isolda.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0personally, i do not want the islets back.
so i am not a “malvinista” (lol, who invented that word?, you?)
but nobody can deny the fact that they belong to argentina.
@13 paulcedron,
Aug 05th, 2014 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But we do deny the “fact”that the lslands belong to Argentina because they do NOT belong to Argentina.
They belong to the people who live on them, i.e. Falklanders.
And l believe that you do want the lslands.
You are always commenting on them.
btw-you could never get them “back”, because Argentina has never, ever owned these lslands.
“malvinista”has been around a lot longer than me.
Don't tell me that you've never heard of it before?
@13. Fact is Argentina recognises the right to self-determination because it has signed and ratified a) the UN Charter (article 73) and b) two UN human rights covenants that both recognise the right to SD. That right has an erga omnes character that all States have an international legal obligation to recognise. So when you hear RG politicians say things like 'they have no rights' and 'they are just squatters' be assured, they're talking horse manure.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 02:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0nah, self determination for implanted populations is not valid.
Aug 05th, 2014 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the valid thing in this case is territorial integrity, geography, geology, history and logic (how can be british a pair of islets situated 200.000 miles from britain? no way).
but again, as far as i´m concerned, you can keep them for 10, 20, 30 years more if you want.
@16
Aug 05th, 2014 - 04:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So you are saying that all people of European decent shold get out of the Americas? You lot go first and we'll follow.
Hahaha that's brilliant, self determination should be based on geology.
@17 Benson,
Aug 05th, 2014 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0paulcedron is the original “Richard Cranium”.
He says that he has no claims to the Falklands, but he's always commenting on them.
Just another hate-filled malvinista.
But its fun to stir them up!
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Aug 06th, 2014 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0so?
you are commenting on argentina´s articles the whole time.
guess you are just another hate-filled, brainwashed islander.
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Aug 06th, 2014 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0so?
l mainly comment on articles that effect the Falkland lslands.
Yes, l do occasionally post negative things about Argentina & will continue to do so until your country drops its ridiculous “claims” to OUR lslands.
Tell me, paul, why should l say nice things about Argentina when your country has openly stated that they would invade us again if the British Troops leave?
lts even in your constitution that you will try to “recover” OUR lslands.
Your country is the brainwashed one, paul.
Why are you teaching your children lies about the Falklands?
They are not yours & never have been, yet you teach lies to impressionable young brains that grow up believing that this is your land.
l would say that most Falklanders would have a very good reason to hate Argentina, after what you have done & what you would like to do.
Do you agree, young paul?
lf you don't want us to hate you, then stop acting like a spoiled child & leave the Falklands in peace.
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Aug 07th, 2014 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Tell me, paul, why should l say nice things about Argentina when your country has openly stated that they would invade us again if the British Troops leave?”
invade?
where did you read that isolde?
let me guess; in this 4th class paper? or in penguin news?
the falklands - malvinas, gibraltar, north ireland, chagos and many others are territory in dispute, like it or not.
and the common denominator in all those issues is england. or britain.
how can a pair of islands situated in argentina, or a peninsula situated in spain, or a the north part of ireland be british?
only in the colonialist british minds.
Stop trolling & be serious for once, paulcedron.
Aug 07th, 2014 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Gibraltar, N.I. etc are not in dispute & even if they were, they have nothing to do with the Falkland lslands.
Your own government minister Puricelli was the individual who stated that “the only thing stopping Argentina from invading the Falkland lslands again is the British Garrison”
Tell me paul, how can Tierra del Fuego be Argentine.?
The British were there BEFORE the Argentines & when Argentina got its independence it was situated 1000kms to the north of TDF.
How can it be Argentine? Because you squatted there & filled it with Argentines from further north.
Only in the colonialist Argentine mind.
Get real, paul.
No Falklands for you.
what?
Aug 07th, 2014 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0again, try to learn spanish and read the news about argentina “de primera mano”
i am totally against this govt, their foreign policies and stuff, but puricelli never said that.
what he said is, briefly, that the uk is the only extra continental actor in south america and that they are militarizing the south atlantic.
http://www.infobae.com/2011/06/28/590211-puricelli-advirtio-que-crece-la-presencia-militar-gran-bretana-malvinas
btw, the british never been in our patagonia first.
the onas, tehuelches, etc who are 100% argentinian were the first, and then the spanish.
@23,
Aug 08th, 2014 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh but sr Puricelli DID say those words, niño.
Denying it will not make it go away.
l don't send links, research it yourself, then get back to me.
Of course the native peoples were in TDF first, long, long before the Argentines.
Stop lying, paul
British Missionaries were in TDF BEFORE the Argentines.
British settlers, some from the Falklands were in Sta Cruz province BEFORE the Argentines arrived. Check it out.
So now you say the Amerindian people were Argentine? Ha ha ha.
I'll bet that they didn't know that! So why did Rosas kill most of them if they were Argentine? Answer please.
l'd give up if l were you, paul.
You have proved nothing.
You do NOT own the Falklands, never have & never will.
Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean that your version of history is true.
Use your boundless energy to develope your own country, before the Chinese do it(NOT for you, for themselves!).
isolde...isolde...
Aug 08th, 2014 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“l don't send links, ”
because you don´t have any.
and what the heck is TDF?
when hernando de magallanes arrived to patagonia in 1520, the english still thought that the earth was flat.
about the amerindians here, they, like the rest of us, descendants of spanish, italians, irish, british, chinese, jews, arabs, germans, etc are 100% argentinian.
they all are totally integrated, unlike the pakistani, bulgarian, romanian, etc in the u.k., who are totally marginalized.
about rosas, mitre, the british sheep farming companies, the british railway, and the conquista del desierto, it was a bit more complex than you imagine.
again, learn spanish, read a serious book about the matter and then we can talk.
you seem to be a nice girl, but sadly indoctrinated.
Paul,
Aug 08th, 2014 - 09:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l can find as many links as l want, l just do not send them,
A tip from an Internet Professional that l know.
lt IS possible to extract information, passwords etc from the computer that sent the links. l don't know how to do it so l don't take chances.
paul, you know as well as l do what TDF means. We were just talking about it.
How do you know whether l can or cannot speak Spanish?
You make too many assumptions.
Yes, young man, check it out.
British Missionaries founded Ushuaia in TDF & British settlers, some from the Falklands were in Sta Cruz Province BEFORE the Argentines.
Would you like it if we put in a claim for these two provinces?
They are part of our “Territorial lntegrity” lol!
Do you see now, young paul, how ridiculous Argentina's “claims” to the Falklands & South Georgia, etc are?
Would you be willing to swap Sta Cruz for the Falkland lslands?
Or do you want it all?
btw- your native population IS marginalised.
To me, you are indoctrinated, as are your schoolchildren, while you keep teaching them the “malvinas myth”.
All we ask, is to be left alone.
We will NEVER accept Argentine rule.
isolde, you seem to be too paranoid with your information, lol.
Aug 08th, 2014 - 10:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what are you hiding there?
again what is tdf?
you mean the argentine province of Tierra del Fuego?
for your information, Ushuaia was founded by Augusto Lasserre.
nothing to do with the british.
i know england always wanted these lands, especially the patagonia.
but they couldn't steal it.
all they could do was squatting malvinas.
you need to read a lot more history.
read about las invasiones inglesas, vuelta de obligado, la conquista del desierto and la guerra de la triple alianza.
then we can have a real conversation.
lts been fun, paul, please don't think it hasn't.
Aug 09th, 2014 - 09:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0But the subject is getting repetitious & a bit boring.
You do need to read a LOT more real history, paul.
Not the lies that they teach you in Argentina.
Britain, not England, never wanted Patagonia.
We had an empire to run & we didn't need anymore territory.
A lot of Argentines DO wish that we had took over Argentina, developed it for 100 years, then give the country independence.
You would have had a better infrastructure & start in the modern world.
You could have been as developed & successful as Canada or Australia.
But its your decision about the type of government that you want, just like its OUR decision what type of government & country that WE(NOT YOU)want.
btw- why do you call our country, “stinky”?
lt doesn't stink here. ln fact the air is very fresh & quite invigorating.
à bientot paul,
I
isolde, australia and canada are the exception of the rule between former british colonies.
Aug 09th, 2014 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0the majority of them, like uganda, tanganyika, zimbabwe, zambia, etc have been and still are a complete disaster.
a typical british product.
I rest my case now, until you read more serious history books.
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