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Fang Wei sets the record straight on government concerns over INP's offshore drilling
12 July 4370

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Mr. Fang gives a stern-faced expression moments before issuing a statement to Indralan press

NATIONAL NEWS: Fang Wei, CEO of Indralan National Petroleum and leader of the Freedom Party has come under fire in recent months due to his company, Indralan National Petroleum, reactivating its operations off the coast of Mudanwan, in the search for crude oil underwater. The Minister of Environment and Tourism, Man Jiahao, as well as the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Tang Yang, have debated action against his company. Fang has met the government's concerns head on in a press conference at the party's headquarters, also calling the government intervention an "attack on his ideals". Reporters from our newspaper were present at his press conference, and have included a transcript from his conference below.

I see that two of the government's ministers have debated action against my offshore drilling, and the bill that they have presented to the Grand Assembly is likely to pass unopposed. Well, I had wanted to reveal the results of our observations, not operations later this month to the public, but now that I have these very troubling details breathing down my neck, I have no choice. Our observations via an unmanned sub revealed several mineral deposits at the bottom of the trench, after I was shown pictures taken by the sub itself while on-site aboard one of my oil rigs. We then took small soil samples where the conditions were favorable as well as a deep ground radar scan. What I saw was astonishing. Underneath the seabed our equipment revealed not one but several large oil veins. We were going to begin penetrating the shale to acquire the crude oil, but now that this legislature has been presented against us, it seems our operations will likely be stalled. I would very much like to begin distributing this oil to other corporations who want it, as well as refining it under my own company into petroleum and motor oil, but it seems I will be placed in a stranglehold by the government. This is an attack on my ideals. I sold my family business to boost my country's economy as well as make a name for myself and damn it I have made it. Indrala has been welcoming of free markets for decades. I will not see my profits squandered by the government horning in.

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Originally posted by thefalloutfan101 on 28 March 2018.