Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bush will enter his second term with a flimsy mandate. He will preside over the global oil production peak and the widespread instabilities it will initiate, including ever-widening jihad. There is every indication that the US economy — based on continual suburban development — will crater under the circumstances of the next four years.
Libya is “the central exploration and production buzz for 2005” among international oil companies looking for access to potentially giant oil and gas fields, said energy analyst Catherine Hunter in a report drafted for the World Markets Research Centre, part of the London-based Global Insight group of companies.
Libya intended to abolish $5 billion (about R30.4 billion) worth of subsidies on electricity, fuel and basic food in a major move to liberalise its economy, Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem said on Monday.
Millions more households are facing higher fuel bills this winter after Powergen, the UK’s second biggest energy supplier, said it was raising gas and electricity prices.
Don’t go down the same route as Germany or you could bitterly regret the devastating effects on the English countryside and its communities. That is the stark message from Germany’s leading protester against windfarms.
Canadian Natural Resources says high prices for steel, fuel and labour could boost the cost of the first phase of its Horizon oil sands project in northern Alberta by nearly 35 per cent — to $6.6-billion.
Russia will sign an agreement in December to receive spent nuclear fuel from Iran, ITAR-TASS news agency reported.
These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the l9th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.
The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.
Human activity causes 10 times more erosion of continental surfaces than all natural processes combined, an analysis by a University of Michigan geologist shows.
Saboteurs have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq’s oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday.
November newsletter from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas is essential reading. Includes an update on Saudi reserves, an analysis of US petrodollars, a country assessment of Denmark and much more.
