Equatorial Guinea and oil

[Will Griffin <griffgrp at bellsouth_net>]

    This is not a new problem or issue.  There has already been 
incidents of spills and sabotage of these pipelines in the region.  Thus 
the environmental impacts have already begun.  And the oil & gas 
companies already have PR problems and other dissent by people in the 
region.

    I have been in contact with the large multinational oil & gas 
companies and the government of Nigeria about this problem and I have 
proposed a species maintenance type of program, so if there is an 
environmental disaster, there will be a strong gene pool available to 
reintroduce the fish back into the wild.  As all here know, killifish 
are more than just pretty, they are vital to the environment and the 
health of the people of the region, because of their roles in insect 
population controls, notably mosquito.  We are now in the final process 
of working with these oil & gas companies and governments, where we and 
those maintaining these species/populations will be paid to do so.

    We are well on our way in this process.  I already have a Nigerian 
tropical fish export company with whom I have invested and developed a 
strategic partner, because a local facility and personnel is vital here. 
 This is why I went to the Nigerian government first, but we have 
recently contacted representatives of the other governments in the 
region.  Part of my deal also includes some economic development and 
participation of my consulting company, with emphasis to 
International-Staffing.com (.net)

    After we duplicate this with other governments in Africa, we are 
doing similar with the governments in South America.  When we have this 
achieved with killifish, we are looking at other species/populations of 
native fish as well.  The oil & gas companies know it is in their 
interest to do this and this is a whole lot cheaper than what they've 
already paid for incidents.  Plus, this is a good PR point for them and 
really helps them tremendously to restore after any potential 
environmental catastrophic event.

    At this point I am not sure exactly what the compensation per 
species and population will be, because the final numbers are not quite 
ready, we are looking at the costs of the facility in Nigeria and 
elsewhere, and we are also looking at a U.S. based research facility, 
including some academic grants for this purpose.  Although our 
discussions/negotiations have gone well and somewhat quickly, there 
still remains many details to address, when you have a project of this 
magnitude.

    As some know, I've been working on this for a little while now and 
I've used my other resources and government connections to develop this 
project.  Those selected to receive and maintain fish will be carefully 
screened, because I am responsible for much.   I have already discussed 
this with other killifish keepers/friends around the world who we've 
already determined will receive a few species/populations to maintain.

    If you would like to be considered to receive and maintain native 
stock killifish to continue a strong gene pool of a species or 
population/location, please visit 
http://tropical-fish.net/killifish_conservation_project.htm and then 
contact me for more details.

Will Griffin

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