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Authors: J Murison, Jeannie Michaud
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Second World War.’
‘I’m not sure.’
‘Between twenty five and thirty five.’ Davie supplied.
I nodded my attention still on Davie now, ‘how long did it take to train those men?’
‘Six weeks.’
I returned my attention back to the young manny, ‘thanks Davie, now there’s a wee parallel for ye to start with.’
That seemed to take him by surprise, ‘a coincidence, but who are we supposed to be fighting?’
‘The Americans.’ I supplied.
‘That’s bloody ridiculous!’ He spluttered.
‘Is it?’
‘Yes damn it.’
‘Why don’t you just hear him out,’ Gigs interrupted.
‘Why, why should I listen to this drivel?’
Gigs shrugged. ‘You’re here aren’t you and we’re going to listen.’
He seemed upset, ‘you are honestly going to listen to this, why man?’
‘Why, because we trust him, and as much as we hate him for it at times, he’s normally right.’
‘Normally!’
‘Well, sometimes he looks too deeply into some things, gets the political agendas a bit mixed up from time to time, but he’s normally right about the outcome. So why don’t you sit back down and listen. You might even learn something.
He looked them over and settled down a little. ‘OK, I’ll listen.’
I started on the small things, drawing parallels with the propaganda campaign that was beginning to gather momentum against us, with others in the near and distant past. He shifted uncomfortably as shots hit home.
I went on to explain the plight the American oil companies found themselves in.
‘Where do you get all your information from?’ He fired a question at me.
‘It’s common knowledge. I subscribe to a number of science magazines; they’ve been following the downfall of the American oil industry for years now.’
‘So it’s been caused by this CC3.’
‘Aye that’s right. When America sold back the oil concessions to us when they thought they were useless. They had concessions in Southern America that would have lasted a few hundred years. Hasn’t happened. A number of countries have, as you know changed hands countless times. Most have nullified the treaties with the oil companies, preferring to extract it themselves. They have only 5% of those reserves now.’
Nommy broke into the debate, ‘so why not bump them off instead, they’re a damn site closer to hame.’
‘Canna Nommy, you’ve done your stint in the jungle. Can ye imagine trying to defend thousands of miles of pipelines through that lot? An remember if they took out one Latin American country, how long d’ye think it would take the rest to conclude they were next on the list and take action. You’ve also got to remember the jungles themselves no longer belong to the Latin American Countries they’re held in trust for the whole World.’
He realized the truth in what I was saying, ‘aye your right they would have everybody on their backs. I suppose we get the blame for that one to.’
‘Aye, well we set up the fund and helped stabilise the existing governments by introducing modern agricultural techniques, making them self-sufficient for the first time. We certainly didna win any brownie points for it. The other big blow was the massive oil fields they bought in Asia. The whole lot is contaminated by this CC3.’
Our young officer decided to re-join the debate, ‘I’ve heard of that, they can extract it.’
‘Yes they can,’ I agreed with him.’ ‘Unfortunately the product they’re left with is totally useless and the CC3 they’ve extracted is about the most poisonous substance known to man. They can’t burn it or bury it. They daren’t dump it in the sea and the containers it’s kept in have to be replaced every six month because of its corrosive nature. Then those containers have to be contained, and then re-contained etc., etc.
They restarted the project from start this year. It should take them another ten years to sort it
‘I’m not sure.’
‘Between twenty five and thirty five.’ Davie supplied.
I nodded my attention still on Davie now, ‘how long did it take to train those men?’
‘Six weeks.’
I returned my attention back to the young manny, ‘thanks Davie, now there’s a wee parallel for ye to start with.’
That seemed to take him by surprise, ‘a coincidence, but who are we supposed to be fighting?’
‘The Americans.’ I supplied.
‘That’s bloody ridiculous!’ He spluttered.
‘Is it?’
‘Yes damn it.’
‘Why don’t you just hear him out,’ Gigs interrupted.
‘Why, why should I listen to this drivel?’
Gigs shrugged. ‘You’re here aren’t you and we’re going to listen.’
He seemed upset, ‘you are honestly going to listen to this, why man?’
‘Why, because we trust him, and as much as we hate him for it at times, he’s normally right.’
‘Normally!’
‘Well, sometimes he looks too deeply into some things, gets the political agendas a bit mixed up from time to time, but he’s normally right about the outcome. So why don’t you sit back down and listen. You might even learn something.
He looked them over and settled down a little. ‘OK, I’ll listen.’
I started on the small things, drawing parallels with the propaganda campaign that was beginning to gather momentum against us, with others in the near and distant past. He shifted uncomfortably as shots hit home.
I went on to explain the plight the American oil companies found themselves in.
‘Where do you get all your information from?’ He fired a question at me.
‘It’s common knowledge. I subscribe to a number of science magazines; they’ve been following the downfall of the American oil industry for years now.’
‘So it’s been caused by this CC3.’
‘Aye that’s right. When America sold back the oil concessions to us when they thought they were useless. They had concessions in Southern America that would have lasted a few hundred years. Hasn’t happened. A number of countries have, as you know changed hands countless times. Most have nullified the treaties with the oil companies, preferring to extract it themselves. They have only 5% of those reserves now.’
Nommy broke into the debate, ‘so why not bump them off instead, they’re a damn site closer to hame.’
‘Canna Nommy, you’ve done your stint in the jungle. Can ye imagine trying to defend thousands of miles of pipelines through that lot? An remember if they took out one Latin American country, how long d’ye think it would take the rest to conclude they were next on the list and take action. You’ve also got to remember the jungles themselves no longer belong to the Latin American Countries they’re held in trust for the whole World.’
He realized the truth in what I was saying, ‘aye your right they would have everybody on their backs. I suppose we get the blame for that one to.’
‘Aye, well we set up the fund and helped stabilise the existing governments by introducing modern agricultural techniques, making them self-sufficient for the first time. We certainly didna win any brownie points for it. The other big blow was the massive oil fields they bought in Asia. The whole lot is contaminated by this CC3.’
Our young officer decided to re-join the debate, ‘I’ve heard of that, they can extract it.’
‘Yes they can,’ I agreed with him.’ ‘Unfortunately the product they’re left with is totally useless and the CC3 they’ve extracted is about the most poisonous substance known to man. They can’t burn it or bury it. They daren’t dump it in the sea and the containers it’s kept in have to be replaced every six month because of its corrosive nature. Then those containers have to be contained, and then re-contained etc., etc.
They restarted the project from start this year. It should take them another ten years to sort it
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