Hmm he criminally ripped off the entire country and probably helped kill a few thousand… to
HAR HAR, sex! Snigger, etc. V convenient
He sounds culpable and should resign. But it doesn’t sound like it’s been free of consequences for him. Didn’t his wife commit suicide last year? Arguably over this issue. It’s really tragic …
But whose fault is that then? If he reckons this all contributed to it, and he freely chose to take this course of action, then….
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He didn’t mention it at the time
Fuck knows. He’s the one who tried to play the card though. Could’ve left her out of all this shit no problem.
This is how fucking scummy they are…… at any cost .
I nearly had the police called on me for browsing the sidewalk forum using work equipment in work time years ago.
Sacked and I didn’t even make a single penny on the side. No right of appeal 
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I’m pretty sure I was let go from a freelance job for being on the old forum all the time. It was a shit job though and I got something better. But I probably was taking the piss a bit.
Family of multimillionaires in a hyper-corrupt country means this result is not only unsurprising, but actually expected.
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Sounds positive! Some interesting stuff in this article. It will be interesting to watch how the Middle East transforms in the post-oil era if I make it that long.
Somethings better than nothing I suppose.
The Middle East won’t have to worry too much , the plastics industry isn’t slowing down at all especially with the PPE and covid boosting the petrochemical production globally on top of all the vast new consumer products in demand that recycled plastics can’t keep up with .
It’s also gonna take many decades to wean the globe of fossil fuel especially with aviation and space travel.
One thing they do have in the Middle East is fuck loads of deserts and a shit load of sun. Can easily see them being global solar power energy providers as long as they have the storage capacity.
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Yeah hopefully battery tech will improve and we can store that solar energy!
Plastic is only 10% of oil consumption or something. It won’t sustain the industry the way it is today.
I’d have a look at this
Yeah that’s from 2018 it’s a bit out of date now. A lot has changed!
Yeah true especially as that was before covid and no one new of the production boost it had.
Good report of what happened in the sector here
I don’t really know what I’m looking for there, but I can see that there was growth in packaging which offset some of the other areas that declined, and that the article suggests oil companies are gearing up production again.
I don’t think you can ignore the fact that even if the petrochemical industry is predicting growth, consumers, and governments, are starting to demand less plastic.
Personally, I think we’ll see single-use plastics being banned, vegetable/compostable plastics becoming the norm and way heavier taxation on the fossil fuel industry across the board.
I can’t see them ever sustaining themselves with plastics…I think they’re backing a losing horse there and if I was investing my own money there’s no way I’d put it into petrochemicals.
Oh don’t get me wrong I’d love the demand to shrink rapidly , we need it , the problem being it’s going to be decades for sustainable alternatives to be dominant.
Just look when you walk through the door of your corner shop and then supermarket and see the scale of the plastic in sweets, crisps , detergent bottles , toothpaste containers etc . Now that’s global.
The scale is huge and you know until laws are changed these companies are gonna produce big time till they are force to stop . Which fucking sucks
I don’t think it will be decades. Plastic tax kicks in from April.
Globally?
Haha no we don’t have a global government…yet!
