tirsdag 4. mai 2010

Please stop, don't be greedy

I live in one of the worlds richest countries and I must saay we are lucky to have so high standard of living as we do. Most f it thanks to the oil drilling along the norwegian coast. But now the oilcompanies and some of the biggest political parties in Norway wanna start drilling offshore for oil outside Lofoten or outside Finnmark.
The first is in a very important area for the marine wildlife in Norway. Huge amount of the Skrei, a type of cod comes in to these areas to bree, large colonies of different kinds of birds, in the summertime the sea is abundant with whales, from the small tortoises to the bigger killerwhale and to the huge sperm whale.

Along the Area in Finmark they wanna start exploit for the oil there is also many huge values according to wildlife. Also here there fisheries are an important way of living, and as the arctic water gets warmer we may also get more and more of the Skrei to breed in these areas. Many of the whales found in Lofoten can also be spotted here and there are huge colonies of different species of seal.
Both places the landscape on land is also very vulnerable. Maybe more in Finnmark than in Lofoten. Here in Finmark there is very much a narrow stripe of land before the mountains/hillsides are raising up quite much.

Now the WWF has made it clear that they do not want offshore oildrilling yet. They want deals made that are good enough to prevent huge oilspills as it now has been in the gulf of Mexico. They say this because they feel it's huge The reason they want in the arctic waters and among the reasons are due to "severe risks" for oilspills or blow outs.

The WWF means there are bigger chances of accidents here in the Arctic than in the gulf of Mexico due to extreme weather, icy conditions, lack of regulation and the absence of coordinated plans of action between the nations involved. When we look to the northern parts of Norway it's very thinly populated, so it's also along the coast in arctic waters in the other countries with territory in the Arctic. So far it's absolutely so that you'll have to be in areas with many people to get good protection, to have areas thar are easily accesible when something happens, and I don't believe it will change even if they are getting the permit to start drilling.

The extreme weather is also true. Just some few kilometers from where they plan to make the oilfield is the small I slet of Fruholmrn. The Islet has a firehouse on it where there is also a meterological station. Among two/thirds of the days there's wind the strength of gale or stronger. 44 days of year there will be storms. I can't believe it will be anything less out on the Goliat.

So please don't risk spoling our vulnerable beautiful nature for those oildrillings!

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