From:	Philippe Garneau <aaa302@*****.ULAVAL.CA>
Subject:	Re: Petrolias on the map
Date:	Tue, 19 May 1998 18:20:13 -0400

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jeremy "Bolthy" Zimmerman <jeremy@***********.COM>
À : SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET <SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
Date : 19 mai, 1998 17:54
Objet : Re: Petrolias on the map


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>> From: Philippe Garneau <aaa302@*****.ULAVAL.CA>
>> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
>> Subject: Petrolias on the map
>> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 2:15 PM
>> With a quick search on M$-Encarta, I found:
>>
><snip>
>> - Petrolia, a coastal town in North California (certainly the same as the
>> one you mentioned), IMHO, the most probable candidate, since there's the
>> Pacific to the West, and it's a geologically active zone;
>>
>> - multiple Petrolias, all in Mainland USA and Canada (one in Ontario,
>with
>> the Michigan Lake in the 300 kms to the west, but I would find that one
>hard
>> to believe! :-)
>>
>> So it's the Petrolia on the Pacific Coast that would interest most, I
>> suppose, it's 50 kms south of Eureka, so that makes it in Calfree.
>>
>> A question: can Dunkie have a prospecting claim on an island that doesn't
>> exist yet?
>>
>
>Perhaps. Can you own sub-aquatic real estate? If he has mining rights to
>that part of the ocean floor, perhaps when it becomes an island it will
>still be his.
>

A thing that occured to me about after my posts: won't something 301km west
from the California coast be in international waters? Can someone own
subaquatic real estate in the international waters? :-)

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Philippe Garneau, a.k.a Filou
Bachelier en Sciences, Microbiologie

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