FALKLANDS ISLANDS TAKES SERIOUS STEPS TOWARDS OIL AND GAS DEVELOPMENTS
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
WHEN critics of Britain's successful war to retake the Falklands Islands from an invading Argentina claimed the military action was about oil and gas reserves, few paid them much heed. After all, Buenos Aires had committed an act of naked aggression against a small remote community that wanted to remain British. And whilst this is of course true, the fact also remains that there does appear to be significant oil and gas reserves in the South Atlantic around the Falklands Islands and furthermore, the likelihood of them being exploited is becoming ...
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