Dakota Access Pipeline: The Wrong Side of a Long, Long History of Resource Extraction
On the bogus economic case for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Major Insurers to G20 Nations: Stop Wasting Time, Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020
Insurers and finance pressure governments to end $444 billion in fossil fuel subsidies.
Read more...Oil Booms Leave the Poor in the Dark
One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is to know where it is. This column describes a new way to measure poverty by using satellites to count people who live in darkness at night. This shows that the economic benefits of oil booms don’t trickle down to the very poor.
Read more...Could a Lithium Shortage De-Rail the Electric Car Boom?
Will lithium be the next plastics?
Read more...What Will You Do When The Lights Go Out? The Inevitable Failure Of The US Grid
Power grid failure and coupled systems
Read more...Big Oil Increasingly Funding Dividends With Borrowing
Borrowing to prop up dividends…what could go wrong?
Read more...Emergy (with an “m”) and Environmental Accounting for Maine’s Landfill
Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Despite Low Oil Prices, Saudi Arabia Stabilizing Economy
Saudi Arabia is getting a handle on managing its budget and economy in the face of ow oil prices. That could have long-term ramifications.
Read more...Oil Industry About To Be Burned Again By Fall In Oil Prices
Easy access to capital has driven oil prices lower and is likely to do again as E&P’s directly invest in more rigs ahead of demand.
Read more...John Helmer: The New Byzantine Alliance – Will Russia and Turkey Revolutionize the Center of the Old World?
Putin and Erdogan are meeting in August. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey would represent a major geopolitical realignment.
Read more...IEA: Gasoline Glut Could Cause Oil Price Rout
More confirmation of inventory overhang in gasoline.
Read more...The Bears Are Back – Oil Slides On Negative Sentiment
Oil prices have gone wobbly…
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...Slavery At Sea: The Ugly Underbelly Of Oil Shipping
A Pulitzer-prize wining series last year exposed slavery in commercial fishing. Sadly, it is taking place in oil shipping too.
Read more...Debate: Is “Degrowth” the Way to Reduce Greenhouse Gases?
A debate on sustainable growth versus degrowth.
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