Oil and Energy

There is an unspoken "Big Money Agenda". Netanyahu's objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating Palestine's multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves
Let’s place 1 trillion barrels of oil in context. Global oil consumption is currently 35 billion barrels a year. Thus, the Orinoco Belt alone could satisfy 100% of global demand for almost 30 years! As for the Orinoco field’s dollar value. World oil prices are currently hovering near $60 …do the math.
Yemen is a strategically key geopolitical stretch of land at the connecting point of the Red Sea which links to the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean. It’s the site of one of the world’s most strategic shipping choke points, the Bab el Mandab, a narrow passage a mere 18 miles distance from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.
The European Union in Crisis. The Geopolitics of Russia-EU Pipeline Corridors By Tony Cartalucci, July 14, 2014
Oil and Gas Pipelines: Pushing Ukraine to the Brink By Mike Whitney, July 10, 2014
Activists Blockade Chevron Fracking Site in Eastern Romania By Tierney Smith, July 08, 2014
In the Wake of Fukushima: What Role for Nuclear Power in Japan? By Christopher Hobson, July 08, 2014
The “BombTrains” Controversy: Surge in Oil-by-Rail Transport in the U.S. and Canada By Steve Horn, July 08, 2014
ISIL and its So-Called Caliphate: Israeli-US Tools to Divide Iraq By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, July 05, 2014
The “Battle for Europe” is Raging. How America Undermines Franco-Russian Relations By Umberto Pascali, July 02, 2014
Neo-Colonialism and “Africa’s Relations with the World” By Abayomi Azikiwe, July 02, 2014
NATO Accuses Moscow of Covertly Funding Western Anti-Fracking Activists By Steve Horn, July 02, 2014
Court Rules that New York Towns Can Ban Fracking By Eco Watch, June 30, 2014
Iraqi Hydrocarbon Prize of U.S. Invasion in Danger? By Nicola Nasser, June 28, 2014
Protecting the Environment: The Legal Battle over Keystone XL South and Flanagan South Tar Pipelines By Steve Horn, June 26, 2014
Putin Scores Another Historic Victory: Austria Signs South Stream Pipeline Deal in Defiance of Europe By Zero Hedge, June 25, 2014
Iraq and Your Gas Tank By Peter Hart, June 23, 2014
US Congress Spending Bill: Huge Giveaways to Dirty Energy By Farron Cousins, June 23, 2014
The Devastating Social and Environmental Impacts of The Keystone TransCanada Tar Sands Pipeline By Josh Burstein, June 23, 2014
Ukraine and the European “Gas Deadlock” with Gazprom, to Meet Interests of US Westinghouse Electric Company By Pyotr Iskanderov, June 21, 2014
Coverup of the Public Health Impacts of Shale Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania By Brandon Baker, June 20, 2014
The Iraq ISIS Insurgency and the Anglo-American Battle For Oil By Felicity Arbuthnot, June 18, 2014
Gas Transit Pipeline Explodes in Ukraine By RT, June 18, 2014
California’s Illusive Gas Shale Deposits of “Black Gold” By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy, June 15, 2014
The 21st Century Green Energy Revolution By Paul Rogov, June 13, 2014
Gas Pipeline Wars: The EU Threatens to Obstruct Gazprom’s South Stream Project By R. Teichmann, June 10, 2014
Will Fracking Cause our next Nuclear Disaster? By Dahr Jamail, June 10, 2014
Grand Geopolitical Project: Russia’s Gazprom signs Agreement to Abandon the Dollar By Umberto Pascali, June 07, 2014
Mounds of Petroleum Coke Blowing towards Chicago: Koch Brothers-Owned Company Accused of Clean Air Act Violation By Brandon Baker, June 06, 2014
Obama’s Climate Plan is Leaking Methane By Nick Cunningham, June 06, 2014
Days Before Obama Announced CO2 Rule, Exxon Awarded Gulf of Mexico Oil Leases By Steve Horn, June 04, 2014
Canadian Law makes it Cheaper to Prevent Oil Sands Leaks than to Clean them Up By James Stafford, June 03, 2014
Is a Russia-Japan Natural Gas Pipeline Next? By Global Research News, June 01, 2014
Red Carpet Rollout for General Petraeus Shale Gas Fracking Field Trip By Steve Horn, May 30, 2014
China Terror Attack Mars Historic Gas Deal with Russia By Tony Cartalucci, May 27, 2014
The Fight For Environmental Justice By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, May 26, 2014
Gazprom’s Biggest Contract: EU’s losing Russia’s East Siberian Gas to China is a Historical Failure By The Voice of Russia, May 22, 2014
Historic Sino/Russian Trade Deal Signed By Stephen Lendman, May 22, 2014
Global Geopolitics and the Russia-China “Gas Deal of The Century” By Ulson Gunnar, May 22, 2014
Big Oil’s Global Power Grab. Devastating Environmental and Social Consequences By Joachim Hagopian, May 21, 2014
Methane Emissions: The Impact of Shale Gas Fracking on Climate Change By Steve Horn, May 20, 2014
Crony Collusion: VP Joe Biden’s Son Joins Board of Ukrainian Gas Company By 21st Century Wire, May 15, 2014
Stop this Fracking Madness – UK Citizen Action Against Halliburton Conference for Fracking Lobby By Global Research News, May 09, 2014
“War is Good for Business”: Big Oil, Wall Street and the Pentagon’s “New Cold War” Against Russia By Bill Dores, May 08, 2014
Kinder Morgan Says oil Spills Can Be Good for the Economy By Global Research News, May 02, 2014
Shale Fracked Gas Delivered to the Gulf of Mexico: Launching of New Louisiana “Gulf Trace” Gas Pipeline By Steve Horn, May 02, 2014
False Advertising: “Clean Coal” Eradicates Poverty By Rozali Telbis, May 01, 2014
Big Oil Eyes Florida’s Public Lands, Plans to Drill in the Everglades By David Volz, May 01, 2014
TransCanada’s Insidious PR Campaign: Launches Keystone XL “Good Neighbor” Charm Offensive By Steve Horn, April 30, 2014
Selling Hydraulic Fracking: The Myth Of Energy Independence Used To Hoodwink The American People By Dylan Murphy and Jo Murphy, April 29, 2014
From The Horse’s Mouth’: Former Oil Exec Says Shale Gas Fracking “Is Not Safe” By Lauren McCauley, April 29, 2014
Spills of ExxonMobil Tar Sands Pipeline. Deadly Tornado Sweeps Through Arkansas By Steve Horn, April 29, 2014
Deadly Fracking in Sichuan: Is Underground Drilling Suitable for China’s Unique Geology? By Fatima Hansia, April 28, 2014
Nuclear Energy Reactors: U.S. to Turn Ukraine into a “Second Chernobyl”? The Role of Westinghouse By Leonid Savin, April 27, 2014
Beneath the Ukraine Crisis: Shale Gas By Nat Parry, April 25, 2014
Shale Gas Fracking and America’s Proxy War against Russia: Joe Biden Promotes Fracking On Ukraine Trip By Steve Horn, April 24, 2014
Earth Day Greenwash: Oil Conglomerates Sponsor Event Praising TransCanada’s Keystone XL Tar Sands By Steve Horn, April 23, 2014
Putin Says that the Oil Wars with Russia will Make the West Bleed By RT, April 22, 2014
$30 Billion Oil Pipeline to Be Built from Russia to India through Northwest China By Global Research News, April 17, 2014
US Sanctions on Russia and the Battle for Oil and Natural Gas. Impacts on Global Energy Security By Igor Alexeev, April 13, 2014
The Geopolitics of The Russia -Ukraine Gas Dispute By RT, April 12, 2014
Replacing Russian Gas Deliveries with US Shale Gas? Washington Lies to the EU By F. William Engdahl, April 10, 2014
The Frack Files: Oil Consultant Turned Whistleblower Exposes Fracking Crimes in Alberta By Prof. Anthony J. Hall, April 08, 2014
TransCanada’s ANR Pipeline Will Bring to Market Shale Gas From Hydraulic “Fracking” By Steve Horn, April 08, 2014
BP Lake Michigan Oil Spill: Did Tar Sands Spill into the Great Lakes? By Steve Horn, March 28, 2014
Sanctions on Russia’s Energy Sector: Shale Gas ‘Fracking’ Will Invade Europe? By Timothy Alexander Guzman, March 28, 2014
Replacing Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Power with Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar and Hydro Power By Washington's Blog, March 24, 2014
U.S. Prepares to Gas Russia Into Submission By Glen Ford, March 20, 2014
The ExxonMobil Russia-Rosneft Partnership vs. Obama’s Sanctions Regime against Russia? By Steve Horn, March 17, 2014
Will South Africa Allow Shale Gas “Hydraulic Fracking” in the Karoo? By Timothy Alexander Guzman, March 13, 2014
Russia-Ukraine Geopolitics: Big Oil’s Drive to War By Mike Whitney, March 12, 2014
Neo-Colonial Regime in Libya Faces War Over Oil Exports By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 10, 2014
What is the Endgame? The Break-up of Ukraine? By R. Teichmann, March 03, 2014
Natural Gas is What Detonated the Ukraine Crisis By Andrew McKillop, March 03, 2014
Trading Water for Fuel is Fracking Crazy By Dr. David Suzuki, March 03, 2014
Fracking Destroys the Environment and Poisons the Air We Breathe By Dylan Murphy, March 01, 2014
TransCanada Keystone XL vs “Lethal Love Star Threat”: Texas Supreme Court Poised to Save the Planet? By William Boardman, February 22, 2014
Russia Chooses ‘Soft’ Approach to the Arctic By Igor Alexeev, February 20, 2014
“Secret Deal” to Deliver US Hydraulic Fracking Gas to the Global Market By Steve Horn, February 13, 2014
Fracking – Suicide Capitalism Poisons The Earth’s Fresh Water Supplies. By Dylan Murphy, February 11, 2014
Ukraine “Color Revolutions”: At the Crossroads of Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Power Politics By Leon Rozmarin, February 06, 2014
Keystone XL’s Northern Leg: A Fracked Oil Pipeline Along with Tar Sands By Steve Horn, February 06, 2014
Living near Natural Gas Fracking Sites increases Infant Birth Defects By RT, February 04, 2014