Nice Job...

[Ivo Skoric]

...of screwing up real good. So, first the Croatian government let 
the foreign interests 'take care' of Croatian economy, now they are 
going to let them 'take care' over the environment as well. 

As we know, particularly with the strike in Venezuela, situation on 
the planet is dire. The SUV nation is running out of gas. And that 
just as it is preparing to fight at least one war.

Russia, of course, is desperate to sell its gas. But how? They got 
boxed in so well by their former Cold War arch-nemesis, that now, 
this became an obstacle for them both to do business together.

Nothing that tiny, but very good in soccer and slalom, country of 
Croatia could not help about. Payback time for Operation Storm?!

In the middle of the real-money bringing tourist area (Croatia is 
earning about $4 billion from tourism; over 40% of Croatia's tourism 
money comes from Istria and Kvarner Bay), on the island of Krk, 
the government will put an oil terminal for hungry U.S. supertankers 
to pick up oceans of Russian oil delivered there by already existing 
oil pipeline (that was the incentive: no new pipeline building 
necessary). Croatia will profit some $50 million a year.

Adria Project Society had the nerve to identify itself in the name 
with the sea (Adriatic) that they are about to destroy with the 
project they preside over.

Adriatic sea is a dead end sea. It is so calm at its end that people 
were able to build a city on it in middle ages (Venice). And island 
Krk is close to Venice. If an oil spill of an Exxon-Valdez magnitude 
ever happens there, the clean-up might take a long time, if it would 
be possible at all. 

Meanwhile, there would be no tourism in Croatia, or Venice. 
Essentially, I hope that if Croatian environmental movement proves 
to be too weak to stop this project, the Italian shall have enough 
pull.

ivo