MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
UK ratifies support for Falklands' oil and gas industry development
The British government has dismissed a reported threat from Argentina to prosecute oil firms drilling near the Falkland Islands. Argentine authorities said that the explorations “carry a huge environmental risk” and claimed that the London-registered companies, which announced last week they had found oil and gas in a remote field off the Islands, should be tried in Argentina Read full article
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Apr 06th, 2015 - 07:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love these Argentine clowns. Every time they open their mouths they just humiliate themselves.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 07:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love the way their president says that the UK shouldn't spend on defence and instead should tackle poverty! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Her government has, for the last few years, been scrambling around the world trying to upgrade its own military when more than 25% of Argentines lives in abject poverty and children are starving to death.
You see, Ms Fernandez, just because nearly a million people in the UK have used food banks over a period of 2 years, doesn't mean that those people are living in abject poverty, it's just a way to 'top up', not feeding them at every single meal.
Also the stats should be taken with a pinch of salt, because they don't differentiate between those who have used them once or a few times and people who are using them as an alternative to actually spending their money on food, so they can buy booze and cigarettes, or those who don't actually need to use them, but lie in order to get free food, thus not having to spend their money.
You get scallywags and con men in every country who play the system to their own benefit.
Oh and Cristina just try and prosecute British firms drilling in British waters and see just how impotent you are!
Will Argentina actually try to prosecute and enforce these rulings outside their borders?
Apr 06th, 2015 - 08:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Because if they do then we may finally find out who recognises their sovereingty over these areas.
What a bunch of MORON'S they are.... How embarrassing for them.... CFK pull your head out and breath some air !!
Apr 06th, 2015 - 08:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Apr 06th, 2015 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well Skip, the answer is no, they haven't and they won't. But this is not Filmus's problem as he is not the Attorney General - he can threaten this without having to deliver on his empty threats. If, in 2015, Britain had a minister for Calais, because we once invaded and briefly held it hundreds of years ago, then we would look like impotent, desperate idiots - but that is in effect the equivalent of Filmus's position. Why Argentina inflicts this humiliation on themselves is hard to grasp.
Anyway, come on France give us Calais back - a joke's a joke, you've had your fun - we want it back now. In fact we demand it, give us it back you evil imperialists! “Calais is British” - and even our Primary school children know this, because we make them repeat it over and over and over and over until they agree.
Every year the UN issues a General Assembly Resolution that says -
Apr 06th, 2015 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0”1. Reaffirms the right of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
to self-determination in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and with General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV), containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, as well as their right to the enjoyment of their natural resources and their right to dispose of those resources in their best interest; ... ”
Seems clear enough. The resources belong to the islanders. Argentina has no claim.
I think you will find that Zebedee is split Premier Oil 36%, Rockhopper oil 24% and Falkland oil and Gas 40%
Apr 06th, 2015 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Next drill Isobel is split as above.
Get it right Mercopress or you will have the Argies on here saying you are a 4th rate paper.
I am amazed that the FCO even bothered to address this nonsense.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 11:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Everybody in the World” to quote a well used argie phrase knows TDC has no legal rights in the matter at all.
Filmus: “We want the owners of the companies to be tried according to Argentine laws and international statutes”
Apr 06th, 2015 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody have any idea what these “international statutes” might be? Or is this just another reference to the ever-elastic Argentine Imaginary Law?
Is it my imagination or have I missed something? I thought that Fallon had promised £ 180 million over 10 yrs NOT as quoted here as £ 280 million over 10 yrs. No wonder CFK has her knickers in a twist.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0its just noise as usual Hans...
Apr 06th, 2015 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@ 5 Redrow
Apr 06th, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed, it is one thing for minister non-job to say this, quite another for someone else to have to carry it out.
Still, it would not be advisable for any execs of these companies to visit Argentina, probably no sad loss for them.
If they do “get hold of” anyone and prosecute, it would raise the dispute to a whole new level, the British would react.
@ 9 HansNiesund
Sounds good to the Great Unwashed, makes it seem like Argentina has a righteous position on this.
I am disappointed that even Mercopress is also prattling on about threats/risks of another Arg invasion etc! Stpud rather thick journalists in 3rd rate UK tabloids right that stuff with no factual base purely to sell their papers.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So long as there IS a British garrison in the Falklands of appropriate(and todays is) level - there is no real risk of another Arg invasion.
But - remove the Br forces and then yes - the Argies will be back here as soon as they can - their Govt ministers have after all said that pretty publicly at times!
Wetty little Snowden - well name me one nation who has a disagreement with another that does NOT spy on the other at times! Thick nurd and even thicker journalists that try and invent a story around it.
Falkland Islands' Territorial Waters:
Apr 06th, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.academia.edu/10574593/Falklands_Islands_Territorial_Waters
@2. Perhaps if Ms Fernandez were to give back the money she's stolen? Anyone honest person would be saying 'Here's all my records. I'll answer any questions. I'll authorise any financial institution, anywhere, to produce any funds that they even suspect I, or any associate, might have deposited. I'll take a lie detector test'. Doesn't though, does she?
Apr 06th, 2015 - 02:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6. Haven't you noticed the latest twist? Argieland isn't interested in the Islanders. They can be British or any other nationality that suits them. All argieland wants is the land. How does one separate people from their homes and land? According to argieland it's perfectly possible. Then let's DNA every argie. The basis of nationality. How many 'argies' will only be 10%, or less, citizens? To be a proper argie citizen, you have to be at least 50% Amerindian. Pick a figure for deportations. 25% or less means OUT. Supposed argies overseas. More DNA tests. How many would become stateless? Not wanted anywhere.
@12. I agree. I hope we would see a British task force in the River Plate with every weapon aimed at the Casa Rosada.
@13. Don't be disappointed. It's an opportunity for Britain to state that Britain is ready for war with argieland. Just imagine. 14 RAF Voyagers arriving with 4,200 troops and their personal equipment. Possibly refueling 42 Typhoons at the same time. Second wave. The same 14 Voyagers fly in with another 4,000 troops but refueling loaded C-17s and A400Ms on the way. Meanwhile, seaborne reinforcements are also on their way. 9,000+ troops plus 46 Typhoons. Will a Type 45 get there in time? Will British fleet submarines destroy argie bases with missiles? Nothing in war is certain. But you have the best armed forces in the world to defend you.
I think you have to tip your hat to the islanders and acknowledge that their efforts to develop their resources has paid off. The 2-3000 people were able to accomplish something 40 million could not ,off shore, and with semi limited resources. Hopefully Argentina learns from this and instead of screwing bondholder, Repsol, murdering attorneys, and wasting their energy on drama they put their efforts towards creating something. I doubt it but it's just a thought
Apr 06th, 2015 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The garrison at Mount Pleasant have one duty and one duty alone and that is the protection of the islands.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think Snowdon's tales are starting to run a bit thin. I would be far more concerned if he stated that we were not spying on Argentina.
Argentina's arrogance and stupidity never ceases to end. What the hell do they want us to say when they threaten us with their domestic laws, you almost feel sorry for them.
CFK says
Apr 06th, 2015 - 07:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0we will do this , we will do that , we threaten this , we threaten that,
eye say,
either back your up your threats or shutty uppy.
18 Briton
Apr 06th, 2015 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“eye say, either back your up your threats or shutty uppy.”
You are, of course, right. On the other hand though, it REALLY does make for great comedy and is well worth my tax pounds to keep it going.
To think about it for just 1 second, in spite of all the threats and the tantrums and the economic blockage, the Falkland Islanders are going from strength to strength ( long may THAT continue!!! )
So it is great to sit back, relax and watch TDC implode whilst wailing on about how the world is so unfair ( and the Islanders in particular ) to them.
Of course we would spy on them.
Apr 06th, 2015 - 08:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0l would expect nothing less.
You have to know what the idiots are up to so that we can take appropriate actions.
And quite honestly l would expect them to have agents on the ground in the Falklands.
They would be neglecting their duties if they did not.
But then……are they farsighted enough for that? Prob not, lol!
@2
Apr 06th, 2015 - 09:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Her government has, for the last few years, been scrambling around the world trying to upgrade its own military when more than 25% of Argentines lives in abject poverty and children are starving to death”
If you can lecture us on morality, we can lecture you on poverty. Sounds like an even exchange of Pecksniffianism!
@ 20 lsolde
Apr 06th, 2015 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think you could spot them right away with the label “Malvinas sons....” stitched to the back of their jacket.
:o)
@20
Apr 06th, 2015 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Your importance is severely overestimated.
@23
Apr 07th, 2015 - 12:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your ignorance is severely under-estimated.
My ignorance? Does this ignorance includes my 100% for the Falklanders exploiting their resources in the Falklands and their 200km + EEZ? Including THEIR oil resources? Well, then if so YOU have a conflict with yourself hahaha. (and from DAY one have said the Falklands are British, and in 4 years have NEVER used the “other” name for the islands)
Apr 07th, 2015 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ignorant in knowing my country is in a decline (and have always said this since coming here), and as a result making sure I educate myself better than all other humans on this planet? That is ignorant?
Ignorant is the rest of you who can't stand me telling the dirty truth about your countries, and that none of you have any place to be pontificating at Argentina when your countries have in their history done far worse than anything we ever have.
@25
Apr 07th, 2015 - 05:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0When are you going to recognise that this is 2015 and stop harping about the past. The past is past just move on and try and look to the future, no wonder Argentina is a mess. You stumble from crisis to crisis and put a sticking plaster on it hoping that will do the job. You need to fix problems permentely.
@25 STroll with the_TroLL
Apr 07th, 2015 - 07:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your puerile meanderings contribute nothing to the debate.
Diddums, Tobi.
Apr 07th, 2015 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0Let Mummy put her arms around you & you have a good weep.
Why don't you stop feeling so sorry for yourself & pull yourself together before you fly to little pieces?
Some people!
@25
Apr 07th, 2015 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I agree we have done some darstardly things IN THE PAST ( do you see that ) IN THE PAST, time to move on we can't change the past but we can change the future.
19 toooldtodieyoung
Apr 07th, 2015 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are of course right, comedy shows are great things nowadays,
and in Argentina's case,, priceless..lol
“She said that Britain should focus on fighting poverty instead of increasing the amount spent on defense.”
Apr 08th, 2015 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0So it appears that Mrs Prissy -drama queen has miraculously fixed up he own country! Overnight she has transformed Argentina from a basket case and International joke into a very model of a modern nation, admired and respected by all. So now she can devote her time to dispensing advice and guidance to the country she admires the most. I am sure that the people of the UK are overwhelmed by the plastic lady’s rhetoric.
Must be the latest strategic move from Argentina,
Apr 08th, 2015 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Shed crocodile tears!
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