Refining Walmart

Earlier I posted how Venezuela and Dominica were coming to terms on the building of a purposed oil refinery on the "Nature Island of Dominica" in an earlier post. There has been a lot of opposition and you can read up on some of it from some local Dominican blogs (check out my links.). today Forbes quoted a minister on Dominica as saying that even though there is opposition to the refinery plans are still in progress to move forward. I really do not like this. The purposed "jobs" that this refinery would bring in is a joke. As other have stated it will most likely be state of the art (automated) and need little work force to run it. And since it will most likely be built by the Venezuelans, I suspect it will be run by them as well. Also, Dominica will have to, get this now, PURCHASE the oil from Venezuela to refine the oil FOR Venezuela. Makes perfect economic sense. Plus, if its anything like the new Cricket stadium on Dominica (see Here) then the refinery will not be built by Dominicans (whom the jobs should go to) but by workers brought in by Venezuela. Hopefully that will not happen. What a disappointment on the Skerrit Administration.

In other news Walmart is still working to green up its act. Read about it here. Cheers