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Editor says, what if BP could kick America around like a developing nation? We wonder if the Federal Republic of Nigeria would have received $20billion if the disaster had occured in the Gulf of Bonny. Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
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In 2010, on this day President Bobby Jindal revoked the deep-water drilling licenses that the Republic of Louisiana had granted to the Royal British Petroleum Company for the period 2001 through 2013.
PowerlessThe huge offshore oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion on 20th April had created an environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. But the trouble was that the financial resources of the independent maritime American states were dwarfed by the Royal British Petroleum Company. And their British executives were less than willing to pay compensation, estimated at $20 billion and thus representing circa one year's turnover for the company. In fact the $69 million dollars spent so far by the Republic of Louisiana was directly comparable to the $50m spent on marketing by the Royal British Petroleum Company. And whilst the company focused on technical issues like how to ensure Internet Search Engines ranked their corporate web site first on deepwater keyword searches, the Republic's invoice for $69m was sitting unpaid in their accounting office in London.
The International Community had responded, with over thirteen donor countries offering assistance. Unfortunately, financial, but not technological support was on offer. Because the solution to the problem required the rapid deployment of the most advanced technology available to mankind. And that could only come from one place, the rump United States landlocked on the Eastern Seaboard and therefore largely unaffected by the crisis.
Accordingly, the President of the Republic of Florida Charles Crist had written a letter to Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell requesting safe passage for Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp and his US Army Corps of Engineers. Fearing a creeping loss of territorial integrity akin to the oil now leaking onto the shores of the Gulf States, the desire for Manifest Destiny began to enter the souls of many Americans for the first time in over two centuries.
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~ There should be an international manhunt for the BP executives if they don't cough up the $20 billion.
The other thing is, how can the rump United States be landlocked if they're on the Eastern Seaboard? And considering they thus have sea access, why can't they simply sail to the location of the oil spillage? And what could the US army of engineers do anyway considering the problem is located many miles out to sea?
~ As corrupt as OTL's Louisiana is (I hear that Chicago sends its aldermen there for advanced training) I'd expect them to put hits out on the guilty Brits.
~ What's the POD that produced a "rump United States" and a Republic of Florida? What am I missing here?
~ BP may end up losing its drilling rights in the Gulf anyway the way things are going....
~ Part Two from Raymond will be published today (thanks). An interesting speculation for Part Three is a scenario where Labour won the 2010 general election and respond totally differently (not connected to big oil like the Tories)?
~ I'd REALLY like to hear the backstory on the Republics of Louisiana and Florida...
~ If the Confederacy succeeded in driving off the US, but then failed to hold together its member states, you could end up with a bunch of weak little republics around the Gulf of Mexico
~ Odds are, most of the relief money would disappear from the system. Fingers are sticky enough even with watchdogs.
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