The ecological entity “Malvinas Conservation” has published its first impressions and negatives, on the environmental impact statement presented by the companies Rockhopper Exploration PLC and Navitas Petroleum ; for the exploitation of the Sea Lion/Leon Marino hydrocarbon field in the North Malvinas Basin . "Clearly "It would create serious environmental damage and it is a project that can be avoidable," he said.
This is the first known statement from the environmental organization regarding the Environmental Impact Study. Who asserts that companies do not have a firm commitment to offset all the carbon emissions that oil exploitation would generate. “ That is, the millions of tons produced during development and the more than one hundred million tons generated by the consumption of crude oil” for the islands, Mercopress transmits in a publication this Friday the 26th.
He also criticized the colonial government, stating that the legislation and policies on hydrocarbons are not ready for the oil advance, that regulations should have been issued before creating the Environmental Impact Study and not the other way around, and that certain relative patterns to regulatory reliability; have not been completed.
He also warns that, if the British occupation legislative council gives the “green light” to this Environmental Impact Study, before having legislation, “it makes legal reliability something uncertain”; There is a risk that such excesses or violations would put the Kelpers government in a position to be sued if it attempts to set up reference standards later.
For her part, when Pippa Christie , the administrator in the islands of the Israeli oil company, Navitas, was asked, she said that the company “takes note that Malvinas Conservation has made public its initial opinion and encourages the organization to "All those interested in reading the Environmental Impact Study, to submit their comments through the formal public consultation process so that they can be addressed appropriately."
He also said that Sea Lion's projected emissions mark favorably better results than other projects globally and the UK's own production in the North Sea; and that during the energy transition there will also be strong demand for crude oil globally, and the United Kingdom depends on imports to meet its demand.
“Navitas has offered that oil production at the Sea Lion field can be sent to the UK market, reducing the UK's dependence on imports from producing countries with higher carbon emissions, and much poorer and lower environmental standards. performance"; The company representative argued, not as an environmental basis, but in the sense that the damage is caused outside of Great Britain and thereby minimize the criticism from the countries of the northern hemisphere.
Fountain:
