For several years, Gazprom has had surpassingly bad PR — worse even than Exxon, which since the 19th century heyday of John D. Rockefeller has almost proudly disdained the opinion of the world at large. The main problem has been Gazprom’s intrusion into the lives of its neighbors — its routine shutoff of gas to Georgia in the 1990s, for example, and its long reluctance to lease pipeline space for the export of natural gas from land-locked Kazakhstan, both actions that happen to coincide with the desire of Moscow to keep a foot on the throat of these former Soviet republics.
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Peak oil review – Nov 16
Posted in November 16th, 2009
by simoneosborn in Economics, Energy demand, Energy policy, Environment & sustainablity, Global, Media & persuasion, Natural gas, Oil, Politics
A weekly review including:
- The day of the whistleblower
- A New focus for the World Energy Outlook
- Production and prices
- Oil and the recovery
- Quote of the Week
- Briefs
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ODAC Newsletter – Nov 13
Posted in November 13th, 2009
by simoneosborn in Climate, Economics, Energy demand, Energy policy, Environment & sustainablity, Global, Media & persuasion, Natural gas, Oil, Politics, renewable energy
The IEA 2009 World Energy Outlook, the report which informs energy policy for 28 nations, was released on Tuesday in London. The report’s key focus this year was climate change…
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