The former head of Nokia, Jorma Ollilla is the chairman of the board for Royal Dutch Shell and one of the refineries is located on the island of Curacao. According to our guide, the plant is among the third largest in the world. We drove for three hours on the jeep and the island is very dry and not much green can be seen anywhere. At some point in time my nose picked up a familiar smell that I got used to when passing Porvoo Finland oil refineries. The sky of Curacao was full of dirty smog and the smell of oil was very noticable. What was even more interesting that Europeans buy luxury time shares from a luxury resort which is directly under the smog that tens of different pipes spit out.
I do understand that it is about money, but what is sad is to see the pollution taking foothold in these beautiful Caribbean islands.
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We stayed 10 days there from late June to July this year and it was a wonderfull place. I didn't notice any oil smoke or smell. We lived in the northern tip of the Island (Kura Hulanda Lodge), but even when we visited Willemstad we couldn't smell the oil. There's pictures on my webpage about the trip.
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