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:13:16
- She's got magnificent lungs.
- Oh, yes. A great asset.

:13:21
Five oceanography degrees
and a talented programmer.

:13:24
I'll get rid of her.
She's not in on this Ferness thing.

:13:29
Actually, she's better in the field.
:13:45
Here's the dud.
:13:47
Um, you can take
some lunch now, Marina.

:13:50
Sure.
:14:04
I'll show you the site models,
shall I?

:14:07
You'll see what you're
in the market for.

:14:10
This is a bay in a million.
:14:12
The silt's deep enough
to take the foundation piles.

:14:16
This harbour here is a natural for
blasting in the underground tanks.

:14:22
Here. Hold Ferness
a minute, would you?

:14:26
Plus, the debris rock will be used
to fill in the other beach

:14:30
for the refinery.
:14:32
With 12 more miles of coastline,
:14:35
this could become the petro-chemical
capital of the free world.

:14:39
Six months' blasting,
two years' construction.

:14:42
It'll last 1,000 years. Forever!
:14:45
It'll even survive the next ice age.
We've proved that, you know.

:14:49
We've simulated 10,000 years
of glaciation over the whole bay.

:14:55
We don't need that ice age.
:14:57
We can divert the Gulf Stream
and unfreeze the Arctic Circle.


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