Cuba: Minister Announces Increase in Oil Drilling

[Mika]

Source: Escambray Digital, newspaper of Sancti Spiritus province, Cuba.

Cuba will substantially increase the number of its oil wells on land, in coastal areas and in deep waters in its exclusive zone in the Gulf of Mexico, said Basic Industry Minister Yadira Garcia on Tuesday.

Garcia made the announcement at the Second Earth Sciences Convention - Geosciences 2007, taking place at the Havana Convention Center with the participation of 700 national and foreign specialists.

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Garcia said that today it is impossible to conceive of a serious and responsible discussion about the future of oil and gas in the world without incorporating into the analysis concern for the potential reserves to be used rationally.

"This will give time for humanity to develop known alternative energy sources and discover new ones", she said.

Read more: http://www.escambray.cu/Eng/news/Cdrilling0703211527.ht...

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Oil reserves to be used rationally?

Give time for humanity to develop known alternative energy sources and discover new ones?

Conserve & develop alternatives? What kind of ideology is this? Damned commies.