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		<title>Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being &#34;fracked&#34; in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Yacht Sails Around the World Powered by Nothing More than the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in 1981 as part of NOAA, America&#8217;s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan to Produce Gas &#8211; by Burning Underground Coal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual demand, Pakistan&#8217;s National Grid is facing more than a 5,000-megawatt shortfall in power generation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Nnimmo Bassey * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Science tells us that we are heading for a climate crisis, yet it is within our means to change course. However, some very worrying false solutions are on the table in the United Nations Framework Convention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Going Solar &#8211; Gonna Cost Ya, Mate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Green activists, take note &#8211; for Australia fully to embrace solar power, Canberra would have to spend $100 billion, with photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity covering an area twice the size of Sydney in order to replace Australia’s indigenous inexpensive coal-fired power plants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shale Gas May Be a Mexican Mirage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; In spite of mounting scientific evidence about its negative aspects, Mexico is getting ready to intensify exploration for shale gas, natural gas found trapped in shale, a sedimentary rock. The state oil company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), is planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Fracking&quot; for Shale Gas: Neither Clean nor Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Hydraulic fracturing or &#34;fracking&#34; is being used to tap the last remaining natural gas deposits across large areas of the United States and western Canada, fueling continued dependence on hydrocarbons instead of a shift to genuinely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Production</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of http://oilprice.com China is leaving no shale deposit unturned in its effort to develop indigenous energy resources. On 24 November China&#8217;s Ministry of Land and Resources geological exploration department head Peng Qiming said during a press conference that China&#8217;s combined oil and natural gas output, 280 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OP-ED: The Future of Carbon Markets: Taking Politics Seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Peter Newell * BRIGHTON, United Kingdom, Nov 22, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Carbon markets are under attack on all sides, despite ongoing faith in their ability to deliver meaningful reductions in greenhouse gases (GHGs). As the Durban climate summit approaches and as the first commitment period of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kazakhstan Now World&#8217;s Largest Uranium Miner</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Kazakhstan’s international energy image is now that of one of the world’s rising oil exporters, an extraordinary feat given that, two decades ago its hydrocarbon output was beyond insignificant when the USSR collapsed. The vast Central Asian nation, larger than Western Europe, [...]]]></description>
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