* BPC confident 'no legal impediment' to plans
* Activists confident in 'powerful' legal case
By NEIL HARTNELL
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
Activists yesterday argued The Bahamas is "paying lip service to the green and blue economy" in response to charges they have exposed their "true agenda" by seeking to block oil exploration.
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC), firing back at the Judicial Review challenge initiated by Waterkeepers Bahamas and the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay, sought to reassure shareholders that its first well will move ahead as planned by asserting "there should be no legal impediment" to its plans.
Simon Potter, BPC's chief executive, in a statement to the stock market argued that the environmental activists had shown their "true agenda" by waiting until the last-minute - just one week before the Stena IceMAX drill ship arrives in The Bahamas - to seek to halt the Perseverance One well.