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Posts in March 2007

• What else has the government not told us about climate change?

  Andy Rowell

  Mar30

  A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices “have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate change research. This has negatively affected the media’s ability to report…
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• GAO: The US Needs a Peak Oil Strategy

  Andy Rowell

  Mar30

  Ok so there is a raging peak oil debate out there. The Peak oil pundits say we are in real trouble, the oil industry say that there is enough oil for the meantime not to worry. But now the US Government Accountability Office has waded into the controversy. It has undertaken a Peak Oil study…
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• US Maintains Iraq not “Occupied”

  Andy Rowell

  Mar30

  The stand-off between Britain and Iran is not the only tension building in the Gulf this week. Tensions are also building between the US and Saudi Arabia, reflecting growing differences between the two long-time allies as the Saudis take a greater leadership role in the region.

• Oil Reaches Six-Month High Over Gulf Standoff

  Andy Rowell

  Mar30

  The increasingly tense standoff between Iran and the UK over the fate of 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has helped drive crude oil prices to a six-month high. Traders sent the price of crude oil up by 3 percent, to $66.03 a barrel in New York yesterday, after Iran put off a…
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• Iraqi Oil Unions – Key Opposition

  Steve Kretzmann

  Mar29

  A pair of recent articles from UPI correspondent Ben Lando, here and here, flesh out the details as to the importance of Iraq’s oil unions and their long and storied past. The unions, which have been cut out of the process of drafting the oil law (while the US and British governments, the International Monetary…
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• Retreating Himalayan Glaciers Spell Disaster for Bangladesh

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  Bangladesh is often seen as being in the fragile front line of climate change, being especially susceptible to sea-level rise. But now climate scientists are worrying about another equally dramatic effect – the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great rivers on which the country depends.

• China Finds an “Elephant”

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  After a decade-long search for oil from central Asian deserts to the floors of the Pacific, PetroChina has found an offshore field in Bohai Bay that could become China’s biggest new domestic petroleum source for years, with reserves of 2.2 billion barrels. The scale of the find, if confirmed, would be welcome news to the…
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• Shell Looks for New CEO

  Andy Rowell

  Mar29

  Oil giant Shell may break with a century-old tradition and recruit a new chief executive from outside either the Netherlands or Britain. The prediction came yesterday after the company announced it was looking a replacement for Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, who retires in 2009. Already Shell has persuaded der Veer to sign…
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• Miliband: We Should Focus on Costs of Middle East Oil

  Andy Rowell

  Mar28

  The UK Environment Secretary David Miliband has said that dealing with climate change does not only help the environment but bring a “peace dividend” because the world’s “oil dependence creates real danger”. Mr Miliband said it was “right” for a growing movement in the US to push for energy independence in the United States, “focusing…
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• Skeptics Lose: Its Time for Real Action

  Andy Rowell

  Mar28

  The New York Times reports how “politicians who deny that global warming is a problem used to be the biggest obstacle to a solution. They’re not anymore. They have lost the argument”. It continues: “When former Vice President Al Gore came back to Capitol Hill to testify last week, a few of the global-warming holdouts…
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