Watching the appalling catastrophe of the burst underwater oil line in the Gulf of Mexico and the day by day spewing of oil into those waters, Southlanders must be thinking about the plans to drill in the South Basin, below Stewart Island. Creating our own disaster down there, where conditions are even more difficult than those off Mexico, seems foolhardy in the extreme. If drilling was to go ahead and if the pipeline failed, broke, ruptured, perished, whatever, there is much that we could lose and little we could do to contain such an accident.
It may be that 'there are jobs to be had' from the oil industry but the risks, as we see now, are enormous.
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