A matter of proportion

When you use your common sense, it's very obvious why another NuStar terminal on St. Eustatius is just an outrageous idea. Picture this: 

• Statia is an island of 22 sq. km (8 sq. miles) with 2886 inhabitants. To give you an idea: that's the size of Dutch city Leiden or 1 third of Manhattan.
• NuStar already built 67 tanks, and wants to add another 31 (source Nustar website). Total amount of tanks would then be 98. So we have 1 oil tank on every 30 inhabitants. That must be a Guiness World Record.
• Two third of the island is mountain area, one third is where people live, work, go to school and relax. The proposed expansion area is within 1 km of all that.
• Statia is an island. That means it is isolated. It has no regular sea ferries and only 5 outgoing air flights a day. Statia has 1 fire department and 1 small hospital not equipped for trauma treatment. 

Imagine

• .. within the city borders of Leiden almost 100 oil tanks are present
• .. something happens that is not suppose to happen, and a major fire breaks out. Remember Bonaire? (13 times bigger than Statia)

 Our point? NuStar's presence on the island is out of proportion and far too risky.