The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

Nov. 18, 2009 As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to lock in long-term agreements, notably in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the suppliers and end-users but also the transit countries. Intensive courtships are under way where a ménage à trois, or more, may be the best option to prevent any country from being in a dominating position to rule a region and exercise political or economic pressure.. » read more

Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan's Ultimate Opera

Oct. 1, 2009 Back before email, a world traveler who wanted to keep in touch and couldn't just pop into the nearest Internet café, might drop you a series of postcards from one exotic locale after another. Pepe Escobar, that edgy, peripatetic globe-trotting reporter for one of my favorite on-line publications, Asia Times, has been doing just that for TomDispatch readers as he explores the geography that undergirds our civilization, the pipelines that crisscross Eurasia through which flow energy -- and trouble. This, then, is his third "postcard" from what he likes to call Pipelineistan. The first in March began laying out a great, ongoing energy struggle across Eurasia via an embattled energy corridor (and a key pipeline) that runs from the Caspian Sea to Europe through Georgia and Turkey -- and the Great Game of business, diplomacy, and proxy war between Russia and the U.. » read more

‘China, US risk rifts in Middle East’

Sept. 30, 2009 BEIJING: China and the United States risk deepening rifts over influence and oil in the Middle East, Beijing’s former envoy to the region has said, urging his nation to bolster ties with Iran and other energy-exporting powers. Sun Bigan was China’s special envoy on the Middle East until March, and in a new essay he said US President Barack Obama’s effort to improve ties with Islamic states in the Middle East was a tactical shift that had not removed the potential for friction between Washington and Beijing in the region. “The US has always sought to control the faucet of global oil supplies. There is cooperation between China and the US, but there is also struggle, and the US has always seen us as a potential foe,” he wrote in the September issue of “Asia & Africa Review”, which reached subscribers this week.. » read more

Dr. Steven Greer presents "The Promise of New Energy" at the Exopolitics Summit 2009

Oct. 1, 2009 (August 12, 2009) Dr. Steven Greer presents "The Promise of New Energy" at the European Exopolitics Summit 2009. VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.. » read more

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Endless Oil

Russian research has shown that the Earth doesn't need dinosaurs to produce oil Sept. 13, 2009 Do dead dinosaurs fuel our cars? The assumption that they do, along with other dead matter thought to have formed what are known as fossil fuels, has been an article of faith for centuries. Our geologists are taught fossil fuel theory in our schools; our energy companies search for fossil fuels by divining where the dinosaurs lay down and died. Sooner or later, we will run out of liquefied dinosaurs and be forced to turn to either nuclear or renewable fuels, virtually everyone believes. Except in Russia and Ukraine.. » read more

Saudi Prince Warns U.S. Not To Go 'Green'

Sept. 14, 2009   Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal A prominent Saudi prince is warning the United States against trying to become energy independent, claiming it is "political posturing at its worst – a concept that is unrealistic, misguided, and ultimately harmful to energy-producing and consuming countries alike," according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.. » read more

China Buying up North American Oil

Sept. 11, 2009 U.S. access to energy threatened by 'green' objections   Editor's Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.. » read more

Iran Discovers Vast New Oil Reserves

August 25, 2009 Iran has discovered more than 8.8 billion barrels of oil in four layers of reserves in the country's southwestern Susangerd oil field.   Iran's Oil Minister, Gholam-Hossein Nozari "These reserves were discovered after drilling through all the new layers of reserves, to a depth of 5,026 meters (16,489.5 ft), and the expected and possible amount of reserves in this field is over 8.83 billion barrels," Iran's Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari said in a statement on Monday.. » read more

13 Simple Ways to Lower Your Electric Bill

July 31, 2009 This article is part of a series related to being Financially Fit Forgoing the family road trip for a homebound vacation may not save you the money you'd hoped if it means running the AC full blast all summer. Even with oil and other commodity prices dropping because of the recession, average residential electricity prices are expected to rise 4.7% this year compared to last year, and another 3.3% next year, according to the Energy Information Administration's Short-Term Energy Outlook. Reducing your home electricity use can save you money and shrink your carbon footprint.. » read more

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