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New Amazon Oil Threat
Andy Rowell, March 27, 2013
On the same day that Peru declares a State of Emergency over oil pollution in the Amazon, the Ecuadorians offer 3 million hectares of pristine forest to the Chinese to explore for oil.
Is Oil One Reason For Genocide of Rohingya in Burma?
Andy Rowell, March 18, 2013
Human rights campaigners are warning that further ethnic cleansing in Burma, which is being exacerbated by land clearances due the Shwe Oil Gas pipeline, could be imminent.
Japanese – China Conflict “All About Oil”
Andy Rowell, September 19, 2012
It was planned to be the year of friendship between China and Japan, but instead we have a brewing conflict over oil. The headlines of the burgeoning diplomatic spat between China and Japan may be about “disputed islands” but make no mistake, this is a conflict over oil. It was all meant to be so...
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Chinese Increase Investment in Tar Sands
Andy Rowell, September 19, 2011
In its “Energy Outlook” for last month, the global investment bank Goldman Sachs argued that “China remains the key growth driver” for worldwide oil demand. One of the key questions for the past decade for many in the oil-game has been where China, this vast emerging super-power, is getting access to its oil and will...
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China To Start Fracking Too
Andy Rowell, July 4, 2011
What a difference a day makes. Last week, the FT’s “Energy Special” pull-out included an article on China’s potential for shale gas. The article quoted a recent report from the investment bank, Jefferies which said: “Unconventional gas is a dream come true for China’s energy policymakers,” but then the report added “China does not need...
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Empty threats should not be made at ‘friends’
Lorne Stockman, May 19, 2011
Alberta’s minister of energy Ron Liepert was in New York this week and took the opportunity to threaten the State Department over the slow pace (as he sees it) of the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline is designed to carry up to 900,000 barrels per day of mostly tar sands derived...
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Nigeria: “Shell has access to everything”
Andy Rowell, December 9, 2010
One of the main concerns of the Ogoni activist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa was the collusion between Shell and the Nigerian Government. We already know that this collusion went from the top levels of the government to routine logistical and financial support for the military. Saro-Wiwa once said that one of their protests was “anti-Shell,...
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The Boom Times Are Back
Andy Rowell, July 29, 2010
From one disaster to another.. Early on during Deepwater, I blogged on how the Canadians were looking to exploit the spill to push their dirty oil. The fact has not been lost on the industry bible, the Petroleum Economist, (PE) which notes in its July edition that “whisper it, but the US’ misfortune could be...
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Chinese Buy $5 Billion Stake in the Tar Sands
Andy Rowell, April 13, 2010
Timing, they say, is everything. Yesterday I blogged on the US military’s latest warnings on peak oil and how we face a severe energy crunch. The military planners examined different production methods and flagged up potential problems. With the Canadian tar sands they warned that “legal constraints may discourage investment.”
Sudan’s Oil Figures Don’t Add up, Undermining Peace Deal
Andy Rowell, March 18, 2010
Six months ago, the campaign organisation Global Witness exposed discrepancies in the oil figures for Sudan, raising questions as to whether the revenues were being shared fairly between the North and South of the country. The revenues are important as they under-pin the 2005 peace agreement, which brought to an end one of Africa’s longest-running...
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