KENYA: Biofuels Boom and Bust
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Friday, October 24, 2008
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John David Bwakali
NAIROBI, Oct 24 (IPS) – The Kenyan government has hailed bio-diesel as an innovation that combines green politics with poverty reduction. But recent drops in biofuel prices have caused concern about the sustainability of alternative [...]
CORRUPTION-PERU: Officials Charged in Oil Contract Scandal
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
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Ángel Páez
LIMA, Oct 22 (IPS) – An anti-corruption Peruvian prosecutor brought charges against one current and three former high-level officials and 10 other people in a scandal over alleged bribes in lucrative oil contracts awarded to [...]
OIL SANDS-PART 3: Biggest Customer Has Second Thoughts
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Monday, October 20, 2008
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Chris Arsenault*
FT. MCMURRAY, Oct 20 (IPS) – As Canada’s tar sands extraction expands full steam ahead, a perfect storm of internal and external opposition could derail some of the voracious growth at the world’s largest energy project.
Together, [...]
OIL SANDS-PART 1: Showdown at Ft. McMoney
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
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Chris Arsenault*
FT. MCMURRY, Canada, Oct 16 (IPS) – The sun rises in a bright, red line over flat land, small lakes, boreal forest and peat bogs as our small double engine plane bumps through early morning turbulence [...]
BOLIVIA: Water, Energy Everywhere – But Not for Locals
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October , 2008
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Franz Chávez
LA PAZ, Oct 3 (IPS) – Peasant farmers in 42 villages along the Zongo valley in western Bolivia stand by and watch as the flourishing electricity industry harnesses the swift-flowing river while, paradoxically, their own farms [...]
PARAGUAY-BRAZIL: Lugo to Seek New Terms for Itaipú Dam
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Friday, September 05, 2008
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Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 5 (IPS) – Paraguay’s new government wants to increase ninefold the revenues the country takes in from the sale of its share of the energy [...]
ICELAND: Filling Up on Hydrogen
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK, Aug 28 (IPS) – Earlier this year, the Icelandic whale-watching boat Elding was fitted with a hydrogen-powered generator that fuels its lighting system, electric equipment and navigation machinery. It [...]
BRAZIL: The Complications of Coming into Sudden (Oil) Wealth
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 26 (IPS) – Brazil’s social and economic future may depend, according to experts, on the way it ultimately handles the sudden oil wealth discovered deep under [...]
MIDDLE EAST: In the Race for Renewable Energy Sources
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Meena Janardhan
DUBAI, Aug 21 (IPS) – As the world scrambles to develop renewable energy resources (RES), the oil-rich Gulf countries that benefit from high prices on fossil fuels are making sure [...]
The Strategic Vulnerabilities of Oil Dependence
Global Geopolitics Net Monday, July 21, 2008
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
America’s dependence on oil is its Achilles’ heel in the battle against terrorism, a fact that has not escaped the terrorists. Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders have declared the oil supply a [...]
