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War is always hell, but even more so if you are ‘in charge’ of moving a multitude of chess pieces, all designed to work in your favour. by James Porteous Photo: FILE – Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after they were evacuated from the besieged Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov, File) 20…
Caracas and Tehran have agreed to build more “routes and mechanisms” to counter US sanctions and strengthen their oil industries. Photo: Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji said Iran is ready to employ all its capacities in order to heighten oil cooperation with Venezuela. (Twitter / @PDVSA) NOTE: Keep in mind that the US basically controls…
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Hydraulic fracturing is banned across most of Europe, but Russian Nord Stream 2 oil will be replaced with fracked LNG ‘freedom oil’ from the US. Photo: Unconventional drilling technology like hydrauklic fracturing, or fracking, has created a boom in so-called shale oil and gas in the US, for which companies are now seeking new markets…
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Putin, Biden and Zelenskyy are all actors in the latest installment of the massive, inhumane pissing match universally known as The War for Oil 28 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News The Wars for Oil: When you Live by the Sword James Porteous Well, it took an act of violence to finally…
In this discussion, ‘control’ is a loose term, meaning its own oil, and the oil of its sanctioned countries. It controls a lot of oil… But for the sake of argument, let’s say that the list might include ‘control’ of oil reserves in the US, Iran, Venezuela, and now Russia. And what of Iraq? Syria?…
Strange. The USA holds sanctions over two of the world’s largest oil fields. Now add Russia. 10 March 2022 | AJE Oil prices have surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Western sanctions are likely to push up oil prices — resulting in even higher prices at the pump. In 2019, the world…
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Gazprom Neft said nearly 2 million barrels from the Badra oil field in Iraq is on its way to the United States. 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous Photo: The Iraqi subsidiary of Russian oil company Gazprom Neft said a shipment to the United States is its largest ever to a foreign country. Photo…
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Five EU firms taking part in Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline could face US fines under new sanctions Photo: Nord Stream 2 pipeline segments in Finland wee to be operational by 2020 (Photo: Axel Schmidt) 01 March 2022 | James Porteous Clipper Media News 26 July 2017 |ANDREW RETTMAN| euObserver | Hawkins Bay Dispatch “Five…
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The firm estimates that the total addressable market for EV batteries will hit $525 billion by 2040 18 November 2021 | Pippa Stevens | CNBC The global battery economy is the “new oil” and will reshape century-old supply chains while establishing a new industrial order, according to Morgan Stanley. Much of the attention surrounding electric…
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None of these totals, in the US or most other countries, are included in COP, past or future. But maybe they will all go solar real soon. 12 November 2021 | JANGIRA LEWIS | Earth.org US military pollution is a significant contributor to climate change. If it were a nation state, it would be the…
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Oil and gas jobs have steadily declined in Canada, amounting to one per cent of the workforce Photo: Cheng Feng Chiang / iStock / Getty Images Plus 10 November 2021 | DAVID SUZUKI | Now Toronto For years, Alberta’s government has been spending millions of its citizens’ dollars to defend and promote the most profitable…
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Welcome to The Green Economy. Exxon is pushing for a carbon capture scheme without even a rough estimate as to how much they might be ‘willing’ to contribute. Photo: An oil refinery outside of Houston. Exxon Mobil is proposing building a carbon capture project along the Houston Ship Channel. (Getty Images) 01 November 2021 |…
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