Tonight, we're still getting mails from all over the world protesting the seismic testing that US Capital Energy is spearheading in the Sarstoon Temash National Park.
The mails are copied to the media but they are addressed to the Prime Minister, hundreds of them.
He said he hasn't seen them - but it doesn't really matter. Here are those candid remarks:..
Jules Vasquez
"We received from this morning up to close to 600 emails from international friends of Satiim, people from all over the world, from Seychelles to the Philippines to Germany asking you the Prime Minister to please put a stop order of some type on oil exploration seismic activities in the Sarstoon/Temash National Park."
Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"I haven't seen the emails but it really doesn't matter. Well I don't know that I would be answering each individual email. In fact I know I would not. Clearly this is an organized effort on the part of Satiim and more power to them but I can tell them that that effort will have absolutely no impact on the government. The exploration and seismic activities, whatever that are taking place - those
activities are taking place under a contract, under a PSA, under a license that is legal under a license that confer certain rights on the US Capital Energy. The bottom-line then is that I absolutely reject Satiim's campaign to try and prevent the exploration activities from taking place. These activities will continue barring some sort of local court injunction and I don't think that would be possible since as I said this matter has been long since been determined. All power to Satiim in terms of working the democratic and using whatever leverage they think they have with the international communities. That's fine but it will make no difference. The law is the law here and furthermore the government's political position is that this thing the exploration activities ought to and will continue."
And to clarify, one element from our story last night - when we spoke about seismic trails, our video editor got it mixed up and showed a dirt road. That was not a seismic trail; this is. It's a trail that is cut into the underbrush of the forest. There are 119 kilometers of them being cut in the Forest.
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