Having just returned from Broome, Western Australia, finding oil is not what we want.
Not in Broome because this pearling paradise lapped by the Indian Ocean is being stretched with tourism, booming house prices and the desertion of long-term inhabitants as the cost of living escalates beyond their potential earnings.
The seismic pull that is going on will reach its optimum, snap, and in one leap the profile of Broome will change to one of mining moghuls, their employees, and rich tourists arriving in jet loads from Singapore. Two years should do it.
The pristine beauty of the awesome Kimbeleys will be sacrificed to off shore rigs, environmental hazards and the re-raping of aboriginal homelands to the benefit of the few who run their empires from clement offices in Canberra and Perth.
Wait and watch - it's inevitable, and it's a crime against nature.
Oil in Oraas, well that's a different story. More later.
posted by French Deal @ 9:31 pm
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