Italy sent troops to Iraq to secure oil deal: report
ROME – Italian troops were sent to Iraq to secure oil deals worth 300 billion dollars, and not just for post-war humanitarian purposes, an Italian television report by RAI claimed on Friday.
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Audio: Looking Beyond Oil for Energy
An hour long Peak Oil radio program featuring ASPO president Kjell Alekett, Blood and Oil author Michael Klare and American Petroleum Institute chief economist, John Felmy.
USA plans to expand military presence in Azerbaijan, promises $100mil for Caspian guard
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Azerbaijan (an Asian republic of the former USSR) on April 12th. It became Rumsfeld’s second visit to the republic in four months — that is why it can hardly be treated as a formal visit of no particular importance.
Transcript: Fourth Peak Oil Presentation by US Congressman Bartlett, collegues.
The Fourth Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, accompanied by Rep.’s Ehlers, Gilchrest, Inglis, and Wamp.
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America is over. America is like Wile E. Coyote after he’s run out a few paces past the edge of the cliff – he’ll take a few more steps in midair before he looks down. Then, when he sees that there’s nothing under him, he’ll fall. Many Americans suspect that they’re running on thin air, but they haven’t looked down yet. When they do …
World Facing Energy Crisis Say Oil Producers
The world is about to face an energy crisis because the demand for oil keeps growing even though production is already at its maximum, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
Report (draft): Global Energy Demand and Capacity Building in Saudi Arabia’s Petroleum Sector
Release of draft report examining global demand and supply balance, Saudi reserves, current production capacity and planned investments, infrastructure security, and Saudi government revenue constraints on infrastructure spending.
Kyoto-style Protocol for Global Oil Depletion to be Debated at International Conference in Lisbon
Current and former elected officials will debate a proposed international agreement to avoid global conflict over the world’s depleting oil supplies during a conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon on 19 May 2005.
Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge
From farm to plate, the modern food system relies heavily on cheap oil. Threats to our oil supply are also threats to our food supply. As food undergoes more processing and travels farther, the food system consumes ever more energy each year.
OPEC: Quotas “Obsolete”
OPEC, the source of about 40 percent of the world’s oil, is letting inventories accumulate by ignoring its own output quotas, which are “now obsolete,” the group’s President, Sheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah, said yesterday.
Transcript: Third Peak Oil Presentation by Congressman Bartlett
The third Special Order speech on Peak Oil to the US Congress by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. This time Bartlett opens with a quote by Matt Savinar of the popular website LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net. [updated 10 May with graphics]
The Global Struggle for Energy
From Washington to New Delhi, Caracas to Moscow and Beijing, national leaders and corporate executives are stepping up their efforts to gain control over major sources of oil and natural gas as the global struggle for energy intensifies. Never has the competitive pursuit of untapped oil and gas reserves been so acute, and never has so much money as well as diplomatic and military muscle been deployed in the contest to win control over major foreign stockpiles of energy.
