Hiya folks, I wish some advice, since I am at a bit of a crux here:
At the writing of this post, there is this fight going on in the government regarding the status of a lagoon called “Laguna del Tigre”.
The spot is a “Natural Reserve” and henceforth it is government property. However, the government has a contract with the Oil Company from France called Perenco, which during the 1980´s, it allowed them to establish its installations to extract oil from the Reserve. Their presence in effect blew apart the forests and waters that surround the region. And just to top it off, many people move in there, poach in the area, and idiot narcs trash the place by leaving abandoned aircraft in there. The Lagoon is still there, but becoming less healthy each day.
This year, the contract with Perenco expires, and thus, there is a huge movement calling for it not to renew the contract, of course, using the old tripe and garbage of “its our homeland, it is a national icon, natures must be protected” blah blah blah, that be the line.
Despite my leanings on Free Market, I am truly afraid of even privatizing the entire lagoon, because as far as I am concerned, the only clients interested in purchasing the entire forest is Perenco, and I know all too damn well what they will do. The one thing that their incentive will drive them, is to finnally clear away the sections of forest where much oil is still untouched, which not only will clear away the forested areas, but end up contaminating the water that is vital to the survival of the communities that are in the border of the reserve.
The lagoon is a source of water filtering that goes towards subterreanean water deposits, and in effect, those water deposits stretch across kilometers, allowing the surrounding towns to have cool clean water to drink and use. If Perenco purchases all that land, their sulfur deposits will enter those water sources, effectively poisoning the pools, and spread towards every subterreanean channel in contact with the lagoon, and effectively killing the well being of the surrounding communities that are in the area.
As if that werent enough, I would have hoped that some sort of market incentive would exist that would allow the preservation of that land, and particularly its water (I was hoping perhaps the water companies here in Guatemala ). Unfortunately, it does not exist, there are no clients interested in investing and selling the water in that area. My primary concern lies not in the protection of that area for the sake of something as idiotic as “Nature”, it lies with safeguarding and protecting the well being of my fellow countrymen, who for over 200 years, have depended on this water source for their survival in that area. I am neither pleased that the Government decided to be stupid and take over that piece of land in the name of “Preserving Nature” (a job they have failed miserably to accomplish in the first place) in the 1980s, but it does me no good lamenting actions of the past, I have to be at the present, at the right now, so for all of you people who cannot resist the urge of saying GOVERNMENT WAS STOOOOPIIIDD for what it did many years ago, shut it. I am all too awares that was a stupid mistake, no need to bring up a dead horse in this thread.
With this in mind, what would be the “Misesian” thing to do in this condition. I seek to privatize the land again, but I will not give it to a bunch of idiots who will administer the land in such a way, that it will threaten the well being of its surrounding neighbors, since the water affects hundreds of families, thousands of individuals. (Except for them, they got the moneys to purchase their water elsewhere,as they have done so in the past 20 years).
What say you Misesians? I am a real crux here.
