natural gas

Algeria to exploit controversial shale gas

by News Sources 11.23.2012

AFP reports: Algeria, the world’s fourth-largest gas exporter, has decided to develop its shale gas potential, but experts fear this could cause severe environmental problems. Officials say the country’s shale gas reserves are 600 trillion cubic feet (17 trillion cubic meters), or around four times greater than its current known gas reserves. Algeria may be [...]

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Big Oil threatens Obama

by News Sources 01.05.2012

North America could be self-sufficient in gasoline and diesel fuel in 15 years if only the government would get out of the way, the president of the American Petroleum Institute said on Wednesday in a “state of American energy” address intended to raise the industry’s profile in the presidential election. Jack N. Gerard, the president [...]

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Kasich, Koch and big-industry bucks: Why Ohio is the next fracking frontier

by News Sources 11.29.2011

Truth Out reports: Fracking opponents in southern Ohio won a victory last week when the United States Forest Service (USFS) withdrew more than 3,000 acres of public lands from a federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December 7, 2012. The USFS announced that it needed more time to review the potential effects of [...]

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For the West, ‘Game over’ in Central Asia

by Paul Woodward 01.08.2010

For the West, ‘Game over’ in Central Asia By Andrea Bonzanni, World Politics Review, January 8, 2010 Last month, the West officially lost the new “Great Game.” The 20-year competition for natural resources and influence in Central Asia between the United States (supported by the European Union), Russia and China has, for now, come to [...]

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