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EDITOR, The Tribune. Is the Bahamas Government going to risk destroying The Bahamas $8bn per year tourism and fisheries sector ($80bn over ten years) for Simon Potters’ promise of $5bn in oil revenue that is based on a speculative oil well and a confidential oil deal with the Bahamas Government? Is The Bahamas Government going to risk paying billions of dollars in civil and criminal charges to the US Government (US Clean Water Act, Oil Pollution Act, etc.) to clean up Florida beaches if there is an oil spill on the scale of the Ixtoc 1 or Deepwater Horizon (BP paid $20.8bn to settle with the US Government) oil spills that devastated the economy and environment in Mexico and the US Gulf Coast?

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