Oil field under Falkland Islands even bigger than first thought

23 comments

1. Great news. Fossil fuels will be around for decades, better by far that we have supply from the West and reduce our reliance on authoritarian states.

2. In before Argentina starts crying about the land that was never theirs.

   Again.

3. Great, I can’t wait for us to sell the rights off to the lowest bidder and forget to tax it!

4. Sounds like the Falklands need some freedom and democracy…

5. In today’s climate, I’d like to think something like this should allow consideration for more investment in the Navy to ensure a suitable deterrent / presence is there to protect what is still a valuable resource (regardless of our Carbon commitments the reality is, its a precious commodity).

6. With the latino Trump acting as the Argentine president I feel Falklands War 2.0 coming in 3… 2… 1…
   Even with the financial missery. It will only take the people’s mind of the trouble.

7. For the love of God, make a sovereign wealth fund this time like Norway did when oil a d gas was found in the north sea. And do not repeat the mistakes of thatcher.

8. Wouldn’t it be great if we drilled it, taxed it, then ring-fenced the tax money to fund green technology research and engineering in the UK.

   Then I woke up.

9. It is no coincidence that when the Deep Sea Drilling Project discovered oil offshore of the Falkland Islands in the mid-1970s that Argentina invaded in the early 1980s. It wasn’t about sovereignty, it was oil.

10. Quick, let’s give them away, they must be worth *even more* soft power now!

11. I’m surprised they didn’t do a survey in the past 40 years

12. Looking forward to all the profits from that oil flowing into the hands of private enterprise, with the British people seeing no benefit whatsoever

13. We really need to tap this our economy is on its arse .. this would really help

14. Oh great. I can’t wait for us not to utilitize it in any meaningful way, refuse to tax it, sell it to the lowest bidder as another commenter helpfully reminded us or forcefully hand the Falklands over to Argentina even though they’ve made it abundantly clear they want nothing to do with them. My father is a toolmaker, the man who struggles to eat sandwiches and everyone’s favourite karen will find a way to fuck this up.

15. But we won’t tap into it for climate and ecological reasons right…right?

16. ooh ooh Argentina are suddenly interested again in the Sovereignty of the Islands, not at all prompted by foreign influences.

17. When can we start extracting it and putting the profits back into the UK ? So we can become like Dubai level of new and modern

18. I’m sure we’re about to get some thrilling statements from Argentina about this!

19. If Argentina invades the Falklands again, this time we need a full-scale air strike on the Argentinian mainland.

20. “Looks like the Falklands could use some freedom” – The US

21. Leave it in the ground or the Royal Navy is leaving.

22. Lovely jubbly. Fire up the ghost of the iron lady, harriers and landing craft boys!

23. Cue Starmer paying Argentina to take ownership of the islands.

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