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BACKGROUND INFO
These houses on Morne L'Hopital tumbled down one on top of the other, leaving horrible carnage. Photo credit: J.J. Augustin
Haiti's Riches
Digging up Haiti
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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti by F. William Engdahl, Global Research "Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world's richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela...The regions of convergence of such plates are also areas where vast volumes of oil and gas can be pushed upwards from the Earth's mantle."
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is critical to note that, more than half a century ago, a group of
Russian and Ukrainian geophysicists, working in state secrecy,
confirmed that hydrocarbons originated deep in the earth's mantle under
conditions similar to a giant burning cauldron at extreme temperature
and pressure. They demonstrated that, contrary to US and accepted
Western "mainstream' geology, hydrocarbons were not the result of dead
dinosaur detritus concentrated and compressed and somehow transformed
into oil and gas millions of years ago, nor of algae or other
biological material.[6]
The Russian and Ukrainian geophysicists
then proved that the oil or gas produced in the earth's mantle was
pushed upwards along faults or cracks in the earth as close to the
surface as pressures permitted. The process was analogous to the
production of molten lava in volcanoes. It means that the ability to
find oil is limited, relatively speaking, only by the ability to
identify deep fissures and complex geological activity conducive to
bringing the oil out from deep in the earth. It seems that the waters
of the Caribbean, especially those off Cuba and its neighbor Haiti, are
just such a region of concentrated hydrocarbons (oil and gas) that have
found their way upwards close to the surface, perhaps in a magnitude
comparable to a new Saudi Arabia.[7]
Haiti, a new Saudi Arabia? (The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti .)
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