Posts in September 2007
Kurd Oil Deals Condemned
And so the debate about Iraq’s oil wrangles on. The New York Times reports that a senior US State Department official in Baghdad has said the first American oil contract in Iraq – that of the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas with the Kurdistan Regional Government, was at “cross purposes” with the stated United States…
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Some good news for a change. Yesterday the Clinton Global Initiative highlighted the Ecuadorian proposal about “Leaving Ecuador’s Oil in the Ground” which seeks to avoid carbon emissions and save the Yasuni Rainforest. The “Yasuni Proposal” as it is known was selected from among close to a thousand other proposals, and was highlighted in the…
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Poor old Condi, being sent to bat for the President again. Yesterday the poor US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, had to defend Bush’s climate change conference in Washington against accusations that it was a spoiler intended to undermine UN efforts to secure a global compromise. As activists including OCI’s Director, Steve Kretzmann were arrested…
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For the first time in 16 years, a major environmental conference has opened in Washington, hosted by the Bush administration. But no concrete results are expected, and that – say European participants – is the point of this high-level meeting. UPDATE: 50 Activists were arrested at a protest in front of the State Department on…
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The Associated Press reports that Statoil has announced that a new well shows that it would not be economically viable to produce oil from its newly opened Snow White, or Snoehvit natural gas field in the Arctic. The Barents Sea field, which came on stream this month, was developed as a pure natural gas field….
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Iran has warned France it is prepared to go ahead with a major gas project with Total using Iranian firms alone if the French oil giant gives in to political pressure and does not swiftly implement the deal. ‘I have a message for French President (Nicolas) Sarkozy,’ Caretaker Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari told reporters…
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A year-long investigation by the US Department of Interior’s chief independent investigator has found that its program to collect billions of dollars from oil companies that drill on federal lands is troubled by mismanagement, ethical lapses and fears of retaliation against whistle-blowers. It also suggested that the agency was too cozy with oil companies and…
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Good article in the Christian Science Monitor about the Inuit struggling to get their voice heard in the new Arctic oil rush. As the article says: Five nations are now racing to claim new territory in the central Arctic Ocean, where climate change is expected to open up valuable new shipping routes, oil fields, and…
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For more than 150 years, engineers have toyed with the idea of constructing a dam across the width of the Bristol Channel, in Western England. However, the scheme took a large step towards reality yesterday, when John Hutton, the Secretary of State for Business, announced a multimillion- pound feasibility study into the construction of a…
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Canada’s Heritage Oil Corporation has denied that its ship was at the center of a clash between Congolese troops and the Ugandan army on Lake Alberta, in which soldiers from both sides were killed. The company has also challenged a UN official that its oil exploration vessel was escorted out of “Congolese waters” to “avoid…
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