BIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE?
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:34 pmBIG OIL BEHIND HAITI QUAKE?
http://americanfreepress.net/html/haiti_oil__210.html
By Victor Thorn February 15, 2010
Did American petroleum companies murder hundreds of thousands of Haitians while extracting oil from their shores?
In an exclusive Jan. 28 interview, social commentator and human rights attorney Ezili Danto believes “hydraulic fracturing” caused by drillers searching for oil may have caused the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Yes, oil is Haiti’s smoking gun. Why do you think 20,000 American troops now occupy and control this impoverished nation?
On Jan. 28, 2009, geologist Daniel Mathurin revealed, “Haiti’s oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela.
An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water is the comparison.”
Indeed, Haiti may have 20 times more oil than Venezuela. Daniel and Ginette Mathurin mapped 20 oil sites (five of them major), and, oddly enough, the quake’s epicenter occurred in the exact same area where the Port-au-Prince resources exist.
Imagine, one of the largest caches of oil in the Western Hemisphere, and now over a million residents are displaced or deceased.
In a Jan. 26 commentary, Pastor Chuck Baldwin asked, “Why was an earthquake of this magnitude not felt beyond Port-au-Prince?”
He continues, “People living in the adjoining country of Dominican Republic universally say they felt nothing.”
He concludes, “It is being called ‘miraculous’ that an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale did not produce a colossal tsunami.”
Ms. Danto also found the localized destruction very suspicious. “Port-au-Prince hasn’t had an earthquake since 1771,” she said.
“What we’re seeing is similar to Hurricane Katrina. Look at how many people never returned to where they originally lived.
Perhaps the oil cartels needed to get rid of certain people near the coastline where they wanted it cleared.
If Haiti were a piece of dirt with just black people and no oil or minerals, they would have left us alone.
We wouldn’t see all the investment money and troops; nor would the U.S. have built the fifth largest embassy in the world in this tiny little country.”
To whom specifically is she referring? U.S. companies have known since 1908 that Haiti teemed with oil reserves. In the 1950s and 1960s, two different contractors were bought off to not develop these sites.
CIA files also show that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) verified contracts in 1962 regarding these possible oil reserve sites.
Ms. Danto explores the economic ramifications of this situation:
“Oil companies in the 1960s and 1970s didn’t want to add more supply to the market and allow prices to plummet,” she said.
“So, they locked down these deposits and kept them in reserve until the 21st century when Middle Eastern reserves began waning.
For the past 50 years, Haiti has been called the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
Oil profits could have vastly changed the lives of these people. Now we’re being fleeced, and our resources are being stolen.
Haiti has always been a dumping ground, including the theft of our forests and minerals.”
In mining Haiti’s riches, Ms. Danto recounts, “There were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about what these soldiers were doing,” she said.
“There were barricades around Port-au-Prince, and we couldn’t see what the UN soldiers were doing.
This activity started after the Bush-led coup d’etat in 2004.
The areas blocked off were the same places where experts said oil reserves existed.”
To illustrate the abundance of this natural resource, Dr. Georges Michel wrote on March 27, 2004, “In 1975 we bathed in the waters of Les Cayes and noticed that our feet were covered by a sort of black oil seeping from the seabed.”
An even more interesting point is Ms. Danto’s revelation that a series of minor “earthquakes” registering near 2.0 on the Richter scale have been occurring for the past couple of years. A geologist also informed her that the 7.0 earthquake took place six miles below where oil companies were drilling.
More: http://americanfreepress.net/html/haiti_oil__210.html
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100+ articles on Militarisation of Aid to Haiti
From: coat@list.openconcept.ca
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:40 PM
Here is a list of more than 100 web links to articles on the hyper-militarisation of development assistance to Haiti.
I hope this compilation of links will serve as a useful resource for activists, researchers and anyone else concerned about the latest military invasion of Haiti, the pretexts used for that invasion and the real reasons behind it.
The list, called "InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti," can be found here:
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/65/InvAID.htm
Each item on the list includes, author, article title, original source, date, URL, and a short excerpt to give a flavour of what the article has to offer.
Your help in posting this resource to websites, blogs, or circulating this note to appropriate email lists would be appreciated.
Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
P.S. I'll continue to update and improve this list. Any corrections, critiques, or suggestions for additional articles, would be most welcome.
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Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html
By Ezili Danto For OpEdNews: January 23, 2010
Did Western greed through mining and oil drilling behind US/UN guns these last six-years post Bush regime change in Haiti trigger the Haiti earthquake?
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Did the mining of Haiti's riches since 2004 GW Bush regime change cause the earthquake? Listen to Ezili Dantò on mining Haiti's riches and concern for environmental degradation by the foreign companies. (Read the transcript with reference links.)
"The idea that human activity can cause seismic activity is widely accepted in the scientific community ...the connection between oil production and earthquakes dates back to at least the 1920s, when geologists in South Texas noted faulting near the Goose Creek oil field...A 1967 human-triggered earthquake in western India linked to the Koyna Dam registered a 7.0 earthquake."
***************************************************
Since the earthquake, I've had occasion to ponder, like many others, about what may have caused this heretofore-unknown natural disaster in Haiti? Was it a natural occurrence or man-made? Haiti has not had an earthquake in 270 years. Why now? The nation of Haiti is only 206 years old, so Haitians have no experience with earthquakes whatsoever. Did not know that for an earthquake you run away from the house. So, when the trembling started they did the worst possible thing - ran into their houses as they are used to, for protection, with hurricanes. The houses all collapsed on them.
The devastation is heartwrenching. 200,000 dead in the capital alone, devastation in the South also, in Leogane, Les Cayes, Jacmel. In Port Au Prince everything collapse, 400,000 to be relocated, millions homeless, untold numbers with amputated limbs, hundreds of thousands right now dying without access to water, food, shelter and medical treatment.
Since the 2004 Bush regime change, Ezili's HLLN has been concerned about the digging up of Haiti without any regards to environmental degradation.
In an April 29, 2009 interview with Chris Scott of CKUT (90.3 FM) in Montreal, entitled Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti, I expressed concerned that under the UN occupation which made the Haitian goverment a puppet government, Haitian lives and welfare were not priorities just corporate exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor. Haiti's emergency civil preparedness agency was destroyed during the Bush regime change and never rebuilt. (See, Earthquake in Haiti: Under Aristide, Haitians were prepared for disaster.) We've had severe hurricanes in 2004, 2005 and then the four back-to-back hurricanes of 2008. The people's living conditions has not improved in the 6-years the U.S., France and Canada have controlled Haiti through the U.N. proxy occupation. In fact, with clorox hunger, food riots, no monie to send children to school, high food and fuel prices, no development, things, had gotten much worse since the coup against President Aristide. The people were simply slowly dying as UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton waxed on about the "good business climate" in Haiti prior to the earthquake. They died and there was no rebuilding of the institutions the Bush coup d'etat had helped destroy. But there were 9,000 UN troops in Haiti doing what?
In the Mining Haiti's Riches interview, I recount how there were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about what these soldiers were doing.
Then the earthquake hit. What remains is unimaginable. The rescue and recovery process was and is inhumane. The relief from pain and hunger is still not in place. And, as I think about the process of rebuilding, I started checking whether digging for gold, iridium, copper, uranium, coal, marble, diamonds, oil and gas could trigger an earthquake. And the answer I found sent chills up my spine. Made me sick to my stomach. Can this really be?
From what I've read, drilling deep into the earth, digging and mining may trigger earthquakes.
More:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
See map showing where the oil sites of Haiti are located:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/
oil_sites.html#5_oil_sites_in_Haiti
Other articles by Ms Laurent: http://www.opednews.com/author/author14934.html
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Human Rights Lawyer, Ezili Danto/Marguerite Laurent is dedicated to correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti. A writer, performance poet and lawyer, Ezili Danto is founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, runs the (more...)
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ANNEX
Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts
By Bob Brewin, Govexec.com 01/15/2010
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php
As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernmental agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.
On Monday [January 11, 2010, a day before the earthquake], Jean Demay, DISA's technical manager for the agency's Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane. After the earthquake hit on Tuesday [January 12, 2010], Demay said SOUTHCOM decided to go live with the system. On Wednesday [January 13, 2010], DISA opened up its All Partners Access Network, supported by the Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, to any organization supporting Haiti relief efforts.
The information sharing project, developed with backing from both SOUTHCOM and the Defense Department's European Command, has been in development for three years.
More: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php
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Background Articles on Haiti :
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?cont ... &newsId=20
http://americanfreepress.net/html/haiti_oil__210.html
By Victor Thorn February 15, 2010
Did American petroleum companies murder hundreds of thousands of Haitians while extracting oil from their shores?
In an exclusive Jan. 28 interview, social commentator and human rights attorney Ezili Danto believes “hydraulic fracturing” caused by drillers searching for oil may have caused the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Yes, oil is Haiti’s smoking gun. Why do you think 20,000 American troops now occupy and control this impoverished nation?
On Jan. 28, 2009, geologist Daniel Mathurin revealed, “Haiti’s oil reserves are larger than those of Venezuela.
An Olympic pool compared to a glass of water is the comparison.”
Indeed, Haiti may have 20 times more oil than Venezuela. Daniel and Ginette Mathurin mapped 20 oil sites (five of them major), and, oddly enough, the quake’s epicenter occurred in the exact same area where the Port-au-Prince resources exist.
Imagine, one of the largest caches of oil in the Western Hemisphere, and now over a million residents are displaced or deceased.
In a Jan. 26 commentary, Pastor Chuck Baldwin asked, “Why was an earthquake of this magnitude not felt beyond Port-au-Prince?”
He continues, “People living in the adjoining country of Dominican Republic universally say they felt nothing.”
He concludes, “It is being called ‘miraculous’ that an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale did not produce a colossal tsunami.”
Ms. Danto also found the localized destruction very suspicious. “Port-au-Prince hasn’t had an earthquake since 1771,” she said.
“What we’re seeing is similar to Hurricane Katrina. Look at how many people never returned to where they originally lived.
Perhaps the oil cartels needed to get rid of certain people near the coastline where they wanted it cleared.
If Haiti were a piece of dirt with just black people and no oil or minerals, they would have left us alone.
We wouldn’t see all the investment money and troops; nor would the U.S. have built the fifth largest embassy in the world in this tiny little country.”
To whom specifically is she referring? U.S. companies have known since 1908 that Haiti teemed with oil reserves. In the 1950s and 1960s, two different contractors were bought off to not develop these sites.
CIA files also show that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) verified contracts in 1962 regarding these possible oil reserve sites.
Ms. Danto explores the economic ramifications of this situation:
“Oil companies in the 1960s and 1970s didn’t want to add more supply to the market and allow prices to plummet,” she said.
“So, they locked down these deposits and kept them in reserve until the 21st century when Middle Eastern reserves began waning.
For the past 50 years, Haiti has been called the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.
Oil profits could have vastly changed the lives of these people. Now we’re being fleeced, and our resources are being stolen.
Haiti has always been a dumping ground, including the theft of our forests and minerals.”
In mining Haiti’s riches, Ms. Danto recounts, “There were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about what these soldiers were doing,” she said.
“There were barricades around Port-au-Prince, and we couldn’t see what the UN soldiers were doing.
This activity started after the Bush-led coup d’etat in 2004.
The areas blocked off were the same places where experts said oil reserves existed.”
To illustrate the abundance of this natural resource, Dr. Georges Michel wrote on March 27, 2004, “In 1975 we bathed in the waters of Les Cayes and noticed that our feet were covered by a sort of black oil seeping from the seabed.”
An even more interesting point is Ms. Danto’s revelation that a series of minor “earthquakes” registering near 2.0 on the Richter scale have been occurring for the past couple of years. A geologist also informed her that the 7.0 earthquake took place six miles below where oil companies were drilling.
More: http://americanfreepress.net/html/haiti_oil__210.html
= = = = = =
100+ articles on Militarisation of Aid to Haiti
From: coat@list.openconcept.ca
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:40 PM
Here is a list of more than 100 web links to articles on the hyper-militarisation of development assistance to Haiti.
I hope this compilation of links will serve as a useful resource for activists, researchers and anyone else concerned about the latest military invasion of Haiti, the pretexts used for that invasion and the real reasons behind it.
The list, called "InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti," can be found here:
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/65/InvAID.htm
Each item on the list includes, author, article title, original source, date, URL, and a short excerpt to give a flavour of what the article has to offer.
Your help in posting this resource to websites, blogs, or circulating this note to appropriate email lists would be appreciated.
Richard Sanders
Coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT)
P.S. I'll continue to update and improve this list. Any corrections, critiques, or suggestions for additional articles, would be most welcome.
= = = = = = = =
Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html
By Ezili Danto For OpEdNews: January 23, 2010
Did Western greed through mining and oil drilling behind US/UN guns these last six-years post Bush regime change in Haiti trigger the Haiti earthquake?
***************************************************
Did the mining of Haiti's riches since 2004 GW Bush regime change cause the earthquake? Listen to Ezili Dantò on mining Haiti's riches and concern for environmental degradation by the foreign companies. (Read the transcript with reference links.)
"The idea that human activity can cause seismic activity is widely accepted in the scientific community ...the connection between oil production and earthquakes dates back to at least the 1920s, when geologists in South Texas noted faulting near the Goose Creek oil field...A 1967 human-triggered earthquake in western India linked to the Koyna Dam registered a 7.0 earthquake."
***************************************************
Since the earthquake, I've had occasion to ponder, like many others, about what may have caused this heretofore-unknown natural disaster in Haiti? Was it a natural occurrence or man-made? Haiti has not had an earthquake in 270 years. Why now? The nation of Haiti is only 206 years old, so Haitians have no experience with earthquakes whatsoever. Did not know that for an earthquake you run away from the house. So, when the trembling started they did the worst possible thing - ran into their houses as they are used to, for protection, with hurricanes. The houses all collapsed on them.
The devastation is heartwrenching. 200,000 dead in the capital alone, devastation in the South also, in Leogane, Les Cayes, Jacmel. In Port Au Prince everything collapse, 400,000 to be relocated, millions homeless, untold numbers with amputated limbs, hundreds of thousands right now dying without access to water, food, shelter and medical treatment.
Since the 2004 Bush regime change, Ezili's HLLN has been concerned about the digging up of Haiti without any regards to environmental degradation.
In an April 29, 2009 interview with Chris Scott of CKUT (90.3 FM) in Montreal, entitled Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti, I expressed concerned that under the UN occupation which made the Haitian goverment a puppet government, Haitian lives and welfare were not priorities just corporate exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap labor. Haiti's emergency civil preparedness agency was destroyed during the Bush regime change and never rebuilt. (See, Earthquake in Haiti: Under Aristide, Haitians were prepared for disaster.) We've had severe hurricanes in 2004, 2005 and then the four back-to-back hurricanes of 2008. The people's living conditions has not improved in the 6-years the U.S., France and Canada have controlled Haiti through the U.N. proxy occupation. In fact, with clorox hunger, food riots, no monie to send children to school, high food and fuel prices, no development, things, had gotten much worse since the coup against President Aristide. The people were simply slowly dying as UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton waxed on about the "good business climate" in Haiti prior to the earthquake. They died and there was no rebuilding of the institutions the Bush coup d'etat had helped destroy. But there were 9,000 UN troops in Haiti doing what?
In the Mining Haiti's Riches interview, I recount how there were areas in Haiti hidden behind UN guns, fenced off where Haitians knew nothing about what these soldiers were doing.
Then the earthquake hit. What remains is unimaginable. The rescue and recovery process was and is inhumane. The relief from pain and hunger is still not in place. And, as I think about the process of rebuilding, I started checking whether digging for gold, iridium, copper, uranium, coal, marble, diamonds, oil and gas could trigger an earthquake. And the answer I found sent chills up my spine. Made me sick to my stomach. Can this really be?
From what I've read, drilling deep into the earth, digging and mining may trigger earthquakes.
More:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
See map showing where the oil sites of Haiti are located:
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/
oil_sites.html#5_oil_sites_in_Haiti
Other articles by Ms Laurent: http://www.opednews.com/author/author14934.html
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Human Rights Lawyer, Ezili Danto/Marguerite Laurent is dedicated to correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti. A writer, performance poet and lawyer, Ezili Danto is founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, runs the (more...)
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ANNEX
Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts
By Bob Brewin, Govexec.com 01/15/2010
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php
As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernmental agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.
On Monday [January 11, 2010, a day before the earthquake], Jean Demay, DISA's technical manager for the agency's Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane. After the earthquake hit on Tuesday [January 12, 2010], Demay said SOUTHCOM decided to go live with the system. On Wednesday [January 13, 2010], DISA opened up its All Partners Access Network, supported by the Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, to any organization supporting Haiti relief efforts.
The information sharing project, developed with backing from both SOUTHCOM and the Defense Department's European Command, has been in development for three years.
More: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100115_9940.php
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Background Articles on Haiti :
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?cont ... &newsId=20