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Good thing this did not happen to a country that was already sitting on billions of $ of gas exploitation. Fairness always wins in the end. Oh wait…
by whiplash451 3y ago
Good thing this did not happen to a country that was already sitting on billions of $ of gas exploitation. Fairness always wins in the end. Oh wait…
- benj111 3y agoIt's a democracy and has a strong rule of law. At least the whole population will be seeing the benefit, not just the corrupt few.
- Fervicus 3y agoThose two points are true for most western countries today and yet only a corrupt few reap the benefits.
- midoridensha 3y agoI think you're overestimating the strength of the rule of law in those western countries.
- namaria 3y agoLol look up Dutch gas fields.
- hju22_-3 3y ago[flagged]
- dzhiurgis 3y agoI suspect it's same here in New Zealand. It's absolutely impossible for incumbent company to get into big gov or enterprise scale projects. Everyone knows each other. In Health everyone are even from same school. Hundreds of millions are spent on software licences that no one uses.
- deciplex 3y ago> At least the whole population will be seeing the benefit, not just the corrupt few. Indeed. Had this happened in a country more vulnerable to regime change their government may have been couped already.
- diegoholiveira 3y agoIt’s a monarchy as well.
- mcpackieh 3y agoIt's a good thing it's in Norway, because Norway has already proven themselves capable of competently managing valuable natural resources, avoiding the resource curse. In most other countries, particularly developing or underdeveloped countries, such a windfall would probably cause long-term damage to their economy and political stability / freedom.
- avgcorrection 3y agoThe biggest curse is to be resource-rich and to also be an underdeveloped country within reach of some imperial power who wants to extract those resources. As a country in Europe on the periphery of America’s backyard, that seems like less of a concern for them.
- masswerk 3y agoIt also favors all kinds of mob-like structures…