Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The earthquake that killed more than 150,000 people in Haiti this month may have left clues to petroleum reservoirs that could aid economic recovery in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, a geologist said.
The Jan. 12 earthquake was on a fault line that passes near potential gas reserves, said Stephen Pierce, a geologist.... The quake may have cracked rock formations along the fault, allowing gas or oil to temporarily seep toward the surface....
Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive met yesterday in Montreal with diplomats, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to discuss redevelopment initiatives.
Oh puh-leeze. Are we going to claim we just discovered oil there, just at the moment when we happened to be invading the country? The Pentagon comes and takes over the ports and airports of a tiny nation and-- hey! What do you know, there's oil there! What a surprise.
As I've recently been learning, we've known there was oil in Haiti for years. Check it out:
There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin.
There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made plans, decades ago, to use Haiti's deep water ports either for oil refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depots where crude oil could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports. This is detailed in a paper about the Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti.
[These are] the economic and strategic reasons the US has constructed its fifth largest embassy in the world - fifth only besides the US embassies in China, Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany - in tiny Haiti, post the 2004 Haiti Bush regime change.
The 2004 Bush regime change was when the US faked a coup attempt in Haiti, kidnapped the democratically elected president (claiming it was for his own safety), and put American agents in power. The current prime minister, we're to believe, is meeting with Hillary Clinton to discuss "redevelopment" projects. If by "redevelopment" one means letting the US come in and steal oil and minerals from Haiti for pennies on the dollar, then yes, that's what the guy is doing.
But how much oil could such a tiny nation have? Perhaps more than you think:
“The Central Plateau, including the region of Thomonde, the plain of the Cul-de-Sac and the bay of Port-au-Prince are full of hydrocarbons” he said, adding that “the oil reserves of Haiti are more important than those of Venezuela.”
“An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water; that is the comparison to illustrate the importance of Haitian oil compared with those of Venezuela,” he explains.“Venezuela is one of the world’s largest producers of oil.”
And it isn't just oil, but also minerals.
Remember how it was such a big deal that the US moved 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? Well, we now have over 15,000 troops in Haiti, a country the size of Massachusetts. And there were already well-informed suspicions that the US was after Haiti's natural resources, months and years before the earthquake.
So, I have to take back my earlier statement that perhaps the US really is so incompetent that we don't know how to distribute food and water. That's not the case. We're just tied up with other details, like securing the oil fields and the future gold and silver mines. Thievery first... humanitarian missions a distant second.
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