Is Haiti literally sitting on a (black) gold mine?

I came across this great analysis about the natural resources in Haiti and the history of the US interset in such resources over the last few decades. It is well put together and shows a chronological history of Haiti and the riches it sits on. This article is backed by facts and has nothing to do with the claims of US causing an earthquake and the other "off the wall" conspiracies. Great history lesson for those interested.

Topic discussed:

Is Obama's Haiti a Rehash of Bush's Iraq?
Is Haiti literally sitting on a (black) gold mine?
Why Is Haiti So Poor?
Why Hasn’t Haiti Capitalized on its Natural Resource Wealth?


snippet:

Now fast forward 20 years to 1972, when in the November 6th, 1972 issue of Oil and Gas Journal, writer Leo B. Aalund stated within his article that “Finally, Baby Doc Duvalier’s Haiti is participating with a group that wants to build a transshipment terminal off Fort Liberte, Haiti”. Apparently there had been discussions between American interests and Haitian developers to turn Haiti into a refinery, with deep water ports for Oil Supertankers. An engineering study was conducted by Brown & Root co. to provide a cost estimate for a dredger to widen the entrance to Fort Liberte Bay. The plan was to widen the bay in order to accommodate Supertankers that could then ship the oil to smaller vessels anchored within the outer lying deep water ports.

On November 8th, 1973, Martha Carbine of the American Embassy in Haiti, sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Fuels and Energy that stated that “Haiti has before it proposals from eight different groups to establish a trans-shipment port for petroleum in one or more of Haiti’s deep water ports and some of the projects include construction of an oil refinery as well.” In response, George Bennsky, director of the Office of Fuels and energy stated “U.S. Policy heavily favors deep water ports in our own waters rather than non U.S. locations. There is however some doubt whether environmental and other considerations will permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale that would be required”. Basically he is stating that at the present time we would rather use our own deep water ports but would be interested in building refineries in Haiti as there would be no environmental laws preventing them from performing.

Now go forward another 20 years to 2008 with Scientist Daniel Mathurin stating that “We have identified 20 oil sites” within Haiti. He goes onto say that the oil fields of Haiti are more important than Venezuela and that comparing the two is like comparing a swimming pool to a glass of water, with Haiti being the swimming pool. When asked why those oil fields werent being excavated, Dr. Mathurin stated that “these deposits are declared strategic reserves of The United States of America”. Then in November of 2009, the former president of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, a Leopolda Espaillat Nanita, claimed that Haiti “shares with the Dominican Republic gold deposits, oil, and iridium” and that these resources could be used to pay off its foreign debt with ease. It has now become apparent that Haiti certainly has in its possession large amounts of untapped oil and as I will now explain large deposits of precious metals as well.

link:

thacorner.net...

if true and its proved that haiti does posses oil

a serious investigation of our government needs to take place, complete transparency


too many coincidences that everywhere we are involved possesses large sums of oil

There is so much info out there on Haiti's Oil it would take a blind man to miss it...

Transparency? What do you need transparency for? Look at all the US MILITARY in Haiti - MILITARY NOT RELIEF help - Armed Military...

Pretty obvious that...

Get ready to sew another star on the flag Betsy!

peace


[edit on 28-1-2010 by silo13]