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Sea Lion project in the North Falkland basin threatens to deepen sovereignty dispute Argentina has told an international tribunal that Britain’s approval of oil drilling off the Falkland islands has dramatically deepened a sovereignty dispute that led to war four decades ago. At the start of an historic legal clash at the Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (Itlos), an Argentine legal team argued that the oil project must be suspended. Continue reading…
Category: Critical infrastructure
Source: Guardian World · 10 Nov 2026
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Argentina lost. The Falkland Islands belong as it stands to the UK. The people who live there want to remain UK citizens. We know because they were asked and they overwhelmingly voted remain. Probably not least of which because of the dramatically better benefits.
If the Falklands islands are part of the UK it doesn’t matter whether they extract the oil or not unless its harmful to the people who actually live there.