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Noble Falklands Ltd oil activities are 'illegal' and 'clandestine' claims Argentina
The Argentine government has declared “illegal” and “clandestine” the hydrocarbons' exploration activities carried out off the Falklands/Malvinas Islands by the Houston based Noble Falklands Limited company, according to a resolution by the country's Energy Office. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDidn't they do this last year, and the year before? Poor Argentine pseudo democracy, can't even come up with any new lies.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 05:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Really they need to get a new record.
And once again, Noble isn't being clandestine.
Hey Argentina this is the definition of clandestine: “characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious.”
And since Noble has kept what they're doing secret, or concealed anything, nor are they doing anything illegal, being that they're drilling in Falkland Islands EEZ with consent of the legal authority in that area, the Falkland Islands Government, then you have to wonder what Argentina actually means.
Not only that, but every sane person who reads this will thing exactly the same thing. It's not clandestine, and it's not illegal.
Clandestine like pirates. It all makes sense.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 08:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1: Agreed.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 08:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Not to mention their order to “confiscate” (read: steal) the assets of a company operating *legally* in Falklands waters is quite dodgy, especially since they haven't been able to prove their sovereignty claims over that area.
It's funny - various trolls on this site have slandered the legitimate inhabitants of the Falklands as “pirates”.
Should have known they were projecting.
#4
Oct 07th, 2015 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0They really live in never-never land in a fantasy world.
How do they intend to seize assets ? In what court, or do they intend to use physical action to seize ships or drilling rigs. The expression fan-hit- shit comes to mind if they try this action and they will not come out best.
Well if you look like she does I guess you have to think of some pointless crap story to try and get a few people to at least look at you for 5 seconds in your life.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0At some point Argentina will have made so many claims of illegal oil exploration in their waters that we could probably drill inside their EEZ and no one would believe them when they complain ;)
Oct 07th, 2015 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's a pity that argieland, with all its spouting about “illegality”, doesn't bother to read relevant international law. It could start with Part VIII of UNCLOS from where it is fairly clear that islands have their own continental shelves. It might also try Article 15.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0This argie approach is similar to the spanish claim that Gibraltar has no territorial waters.
The one thong that Argentina is good at is stealing. They are a people that like to take everything that others have worked so hard for all their lives.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is rather amusing to see they are saying that it is Illegal to drill for oil around my homeland yet they in all their history shows Argentina was created on illegal activities.
It was illegal for them to remove an indigenous people from their land.
It was Illegal for Spain to implant their Spaniards on Latin American soil.
It was Illegal for Argentina to make a claim to my Country because France could never have sold the Falklands to Spain because they occupied it knowing full well it had already been claimed for the King of Britain many years earlier.
Today these Illegal activities would never stand up in the international court of Justice and that is the very reason Argentina is whining in the media because they know that to take the issue to court they would not only loose their argument but it would question their very own existence based on the Historical facts that they the very people of Argentina acquired the land they occupy by stealing it from a people that had lived there for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived.
The Falklands had no settlers before they were discovered Argentina did.
More pish for domestic consumption.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sooner they get rid of CFK, and free themselves of the myth, the better.
This is what happens when your judiciary becomes politicised and partial.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 02 Ooh ahh Jim Lad.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pieces of eight is what its all about.
Argieland threatens legitimate nations. When will the bombing and missile campaigns begin? Argieland says it's peaceful. Therefore it doesn't need offensive capabilities. Wouldn't want argieland to get the wrong idea. It's passive!
Oct 07th, 2015 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 02 Islas Malvinas
Oct 07th, 2015 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only bona fide pirates have been those on the Argentine's preceder the UP's payroll, David Jewett and Louis Vernet. According to Portugal and the USA.
You have to admit that this nonsense is always good for a laugh knowing full well that the argies are all mouth and trousers.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 05:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Risible in the extreme.
The Argentine government
Oct 07th, 2015 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is all mouth and no guts,
if its illigal take it to the ICJ, if not soddy offy.
@2 Bad Vine Islands
Oct 07th, 2015 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Clandestine like pirates”
Are the oil rigs covered in sheets or camouflaged?
It's not clandestine because the oil companies haven't kept it a secret. Night is always day and vice versa in Argentina isn't it?
If its a problem to you, why don't you stop whining and do something about it, for example, prove your case at the ICJ?
“ ordered seizures for US$156 million and the confiscation of ships and other assets belonging to oil companies illegally operating in the disputed territories in the South Atlantic, which Argentina claims.”
These orders aren't exactly achieving anything as nobody seems to be obeying them.
We've been waiting patiently since 2010 for the first arrest and conviction of an oil executive/worker associated with the Falklands exploration.
@ 16 Pete Bog
Oct 07th, 2015 - 09:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We've been waiting patiently since 2010 for the first arrest and conviction of an oil executive/worker associated with the Falklands exploration.”
It won't happen within the next 25 years! :o)
I look forward to their efforts to implement anything. They are already looking foolish in many people's eyes.
Oct 07th, 2015 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Laugh, laugh, laugh. You can't help being amused by this pitiful gesture which only serves to demonstrate the sheer powerlessness of the corrupt, criminal and bankrupt Argentine regime. See you in court when you will face justice for the Nisman murder and the AMIA atrocity. Jamie Stiuso is telling everything to the Americans. Be afraid, Cretina, be very afraid.
Oct 08th, 2015 - 12:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The Argentine government has declared “illegal” and “clandestine” the hydrocarbons' exploration activities carried out off the Falklands/Malvinas Islands by the Houston based Noble Falklands Limited company, according to a resolution by the country's Energy Office.”
Oct 08th, 2015 - 07:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0'illegal and clandestine' Thats an apt description of their illegal, clandestine invasion of the Falklands in 1982. Like thieves in the night they stole across the South Atlantic and brutally invaded a peaceful British colony, persecuted and deprived the Islanders of their liberty and desecrated their country with mines, the debris of war and their excrement.
Now they try and deprive the Falkland Islanders of the right to exploit their own resources. Argentina has no right to declare anything to do with the Falklands illegal, they should hang their heads in shame and STFU.
Argentina: Talk tough. Act like Nancy boys
Oct 08th, 2015 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everywhere you travel in Latin America there is one word that sums up Argentina's pathetic and abjectly powerless actions against the Falklands: bravado. Everyone ignores anything Corruptina Kirchner's failed regime says and does about those beautiful, prosperous and peaceful islands. It is all for show to hide the catastrophic policies that have dragged her country into the sewer of international opinion.
Oct 08th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@22 I take annual visits to Latin America and there is no doubt that you are right. Wherever I go the argentinos are figures of fun - mainly because of their arrogance.
Oct 08th, 2015 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is, of course, acknowledged that other Latin American republics show “lip service” to Argentina for “visible” reasons of solidarity but if “push comes to shove” Argentina is by itself.
If you think this “Judge” is a nutter, take a look at TMBOA dancing: she's a real goer!
Oct 08th, 2015 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11918458/Argentinian-president-Cristina-Fernandez-de-Kirchners-dancing-goes-viral.html
@24 ChrisR
Oct 08th, 2015 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol
CFK: I am not sure of Senor Scioli's dedication to our great cause. Our patriotic music did not move his feet-we must find a better candidate.
Gollum: El presidente, why not an Ingleesh candidate?
CFK: Are you mad Hector?
Gollum whispers in her ear
CFK: Ahh yes, of course, get me the BBC! We must recruit David Brent!
23 gordo1
Oct 10th, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly right, the Argentines are disliked because of their arrogance which can be attributed to their belief that they are superior to the rest of the countries in Latin America. Argentines think they are better because they have a white European population, untainted by brown-skinned immigrants. I have lost count of the times drunken Argentines, in moments of complete candour, have boasted about having no blacks, unlike neighbours such as Brazil and Uruguay. This vile racism is known about throughout Latin America and is a major reason why Argentina is friendless. What you sow you reap.
Poor argentina!!!
Oct 13th, 2015 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still p*ssing in the wind I see.
P.S:- Shouldn't someone be updating their dictionary as to the meaning of the word “clandestine” and “illegal”
I am almost sure that Noble Falklands Limited company have published details of what they are doing and they also comply with all environmental and international laws regarding their drilling operation.
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