FTA: " A freedom of information request carried out in April by FFOS revealed there have been 498 reported oil spills on land and at sea since the beginning o

FTA: " A freedom of information request carried out in April by FFOS revealed there have been 498 reported oil spills on land and at sea since the beginning of 2018. There have been no resulting prosecutions or fines by Trinidad and Tobago authorities. " This is disgusting. I'll set aside the arguments against the petrochem industry, which are many, obvious, and unfortunately prone to extremist controversy. What I'm truly saddened by here is the obvious level of corruption here. While oil extraction and transport will never be 100% clean, it's demonstrably possible for it to be 1000x better than this, but without a government willing to stand up and force these jackholes to pay for their externalities, it's not gonna happen in places like this. Maybe an international coalition is needed to fine, punish, and regulate oil extraction and transport? In practice that would probably be US money funding 2nd and 3rd world people to do the work (see UN Peacekeeping forces), but it seems better than no regulation.