• Free The Map Part 3: Kuwait Part B

  • Mar 3 2025
  • Length: 50 mins
  • Podcast

Free The Map Part 3: Kuwait Part B

  • Summary

  • Caution - this episode contains some details of suicides that happened when I worked at Amec Foster Wheeler in Kuwait. If you need it, these are helplines you can call for the top 5 most popular countries for this newsletter:


    1. USA: 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
    2. UK: 111 for the NHS.
    3. Canada: 988 for the Suicide Crisis Helpline.
    4. Australia: 1300 22 4636 for Beyond Blue.
    5. India: 9820466726 for Aasra.


    Continuing the testimony regarding my career in the worst country to be an expat, Kuwait. Until I joined Jacobs later on, I would also have contended it was at the worst place to be a consultant - Amec Foster Wheeler.


    We went in to the weeds geospatially finally! Here is a link to the Mapillary track, showing the security workers at the first gate on the road to GC 31.


    This is AMEC's office at GC-31 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/mwe8FrhLCKyiY8318.


    This is the other gathering center they were working on in North Kuwait, GC-30: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GAsQJdn1yXNVB8Pu9.


    For the separate video I made years ago animating the safety and other violations mentioned at these sites: https://youtu.be/9Ko-vrcIgEk?si=-MvPPxkslS-WgWtZ.


    For the video uploaded years ago about my site visit to verify the circumstances of the fatal car accident at GC-31: https://youtu.be/Deg64MWKSsI?si=rKQUpyxBoDjUCjXo.


    For a speech I gave in 2019 summarizing all this stuff at Spatial Information Day in Adelaide, South Australia: https://youtu.be/q-xkK3tKlpk?si=AyJcviEJ7F0Xq3wP.

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