One year since his audacious coup attempt failed spectacularly, Guaidó is once again trying to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Exactly one year since his audacious coup attempt failed ...
“Keystone XL and other proposed fossil fuel pipelines would devastate frontline communities and wreak havoc on our environment.” The Keystone XL oil pipeline has encountered another obstacle to its competition. Montana Chief District Judge Brian ...
“Indigenous people see what’s happening to us and see what’s happening to our territory and our pristine waters – and to our people on the ground, having semiautomatic weapons aimed at us. People are responding ...
In May Washington state joined New York state, Vermont and Maryland in passing fracking bans. Of these four states Maryland is the only one that has known oil and gas reserves. According to the U.S. ...
President Rouhani announced the discovery of a huge new oilfield in Iran, but will Iran have any buyers as U.S. sanctions continue to scare off customers? Standing in the desert city of Yazd, Iranian President ...
The Arctic Refuge is one of the U.S.’s last wild places, and the coastal plain is its biological heart. As the sun shimmers across a tundra covered with wildflowers and lichen, as many as 80,000 ...
Hydraulic fracturing, savior or sin? That depends on who you ask. The fossil fuel industry and its proponents tout fracking’s economic benefits as this oil and gas extraction technique has led the march toward the ...
As Ecuador endures a financial crisis, protesters took to the streets to express their anger at newly imposed IMF-forced austerity measures. An International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed austerity program that cut a decades-long fuel subsidy and ...
Haiti, perhaps the country most affected by the energy crisis derived from the embargo against Venezuela, is being used as a launch point of the offensive against the government of Nicolás Maduro. (By Lautaro Rivara, ...
The Houthi drone strike on Aramco shows the shifting strategic balance in the Persian Gulf. It also shows that any escalation in this region threatens the global economy. The intricate war dance among the U.S., ...
“The scale of new production forecast from the US is staggering, no other country comes even close.” The United States is on track to produce 61 percent of the world’s new fossil fuel production over ...
The Saharan Arab Democratic Republic and Morocco have battled for sovereignty over Western Sahara since the 1970s. At a Tuesday meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, support for Morocco’s Western ...
“Secretary Pompeo gives zero proof but insists that Iran is responsible for ship attacks in Gulf of Oman. Lies, lies, and more lies to make a case for war.” In a press conference that immediately evoked ...
“Carrying out acts of sabotage on commercial and civilian vessels and threatening the safety and lives of those on board is a serious development.” (Newsclick.In) Saudi Arabia said on Monday two of its oil tankers ...
“This decision is intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying the regime its principal source of revenue.” President Donald Trump revoked sanction exemptions that were issued last November for China, India, Japan, South ...
Exxon Mobil is looking to become the first major oil company to move into Israel, despite the risk of worsening relations with other Middle Eastern countries. (Reuters) Exxon Mobil Corp is considering exploring for oil ...
The owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline just won a controversial court approval to construct another pipeline through Louisiana protected wetlands. An appeals court in Louisiana ruled that the state’s Department of Natural Resources was correct ...
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, claims to have seized the state asset after the US imposed a series of sanctions on the country’s state oil firm, PDVSA. The U.S. argues that sanctions applied on ...
As relations worsen between the US and Russia, is Venezuela beginning to look like the first contested battleground in a new Cold War? Tensions between the U.S and Russia are threatening to get out of ...
Oil companies in Vaca Muerta, one of the largest reserves of oil and gas in the world, are accused of illegally dumping industrial oil and toxic waste in open waste ponds, as revealed in a ...
Critics of the Trump administration are arguing that the oil sector is receiving preferential treatment during the government shutdown. The United States has experienced two-government shutdowns over the past six years. While most people would ...
The UK is considering using taxpayer money to fund a new Aramco project in Malaysia bringing a conflict of ethics into question. Should human rights violations, murdering journalists and bombing Yemen disqualify you from taxpayer ...
If found guilty, top executives in two big oil companies could go to jail and the companies risk enormous penalties, including relinquishing an oil-rich region. In what is now one of the biggest corporate corruption ...
“Economic War” and the U.S. imposes the “toughest sanctions ever” on Iran. The Trump administration officially imposed a second round of economic sanctions on Iran, describing them as “the toughest sanctions” ever slapped on Tehran, ...
Despite having massive oil reserves, Venezuela’s economy is still stuck in a downfall. Since 2014, the economy of Venezuela has been in a free-fall. The once vibrant economy that was also once the largest in ...
Estimates published Wednesday by the U.S. Energy Department show the U.S. is the world’s largest crude oil producer for the first time since 1973. American oil production has doubled over the past decade, with much ...
Guyana has won the black gold lottery, but what will happen to the South American nation with a population of only 800,000 and the continent’s smallest GDP now that oil has been found offshore? In ...
So why is the US really messing around with Iran? In a word, control. By controlling Iran, which contains a huge percentage of the world’s oil reserves, at least for now, the US can control ...
Activists immediately denounced the measure, which “also recommits the party to an ‘all of the above’ energy stance.” (Common Dreams) Just two months after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was celebrated by environmentalists for banning donations from ...
In 1974, a legendary bond trader from Salomon Brothers brokered a covert do-or-die deal that would reshape U.S. – Saudi relations for generations, and not become public knowledge until a report from Bloomberg in 2016. ...
(FactCheck.org, by Robert Farley) With gasoline prices rising, Sen. Chuck Schumer placed the blame on President Donald Trump, and specifically his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. But experts say that decision has had ...
Just days after Kinder Morgan officials confirmed the accidental leak of 100 liters of crude oil from a flow meter at the Darfield facility of the Trans Mountain pipeline, Kinder Morgan announced they struck a ...
The world’s crude oil prices traded two percent higher on Wednesday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump announced Washington would pull out of the Iran nuclear treaty on Tuesday. Washington’s move to exit the 2015 ...
In honor of Earth Day, we celebrate the bounty and beauty this planet provides. We must also remember how precious this planet is and how powerful our actions are on its ecosystem. It’s no secret ...
Oil prices could soon soar to $100 per barrel amid growing fear about conflict in the Middle East, according to an oil analyst for CNBC. “I don’t think it is unfeasible to see triple-digit oil prices ...
When it comes to oil producing countries in the Middle East and Gulf state, for most people Saudi Arabia and Qatar come to mind, not Bahrain. That is until Bahrain shocked the world by announcing ...
The Renewable Fuel Program, a program in place since George W. Bush, is causing tension between the corn and oil industries. The White House just announced they may step aside and let Congress handle the ...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the pre-sale for its Petro cryptocurrency hit $735 million on the first day. The Venezuelan economy has plummeted since 2013 when Nicolas Maduro was elected to replace the beloved dictator, ...
West Virginian state senate candidate, Lissa Lucas, was removed from a hearing on a proposed pro-oil and gas industry bill, for reading oil industry donations to state legislators. Democratic Party candidate for West Virginia’s House ...
On October 4 2017, four U.S. soldiers, who were part of a 12-man Special Forces team led by Green Berets, died in Niger. They were killed in an attack by about 50 armed terrorists with ties to ...
Venzuelan President Nicolas Maduro claims the new Venezuela cryptocurrency will be backed by the country’s deep oil, gold, and gas reserves. Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolas Maduro announced a plan to issue nearly 100 million units ...
Florida offshore oil development removed from the Department of Interior’s proposed five year drilling plan. The Trump administration has removed all Florida acreage from the offshore drilling expansion proposal that drew bipartisan opposition following its ...
The once booming Venezuela economy is near collapse. Basic necessities like oil and food are in short supply. Political parties are fighting over rewriting the constitution while citizens turn to gas smuggling, bitcoin, and selling ...
Arctic offshore drilling to restart in late 2017. In case you missed it, last Wednesday the Trump administration approved the nation’s first Arctic drilling project since Shell’s failed attempt in 2015. Eni US, a branch ...
Is Syria purely a humanitarian issue or is it about gas? Heard about the two competing pipelines vying to run through Syria? Ironically the two sides of the pipeline issue also happen to represent the ...
2 min news: 6 things they aren’t telling you about Syria! 1. Pipelines 2. Golan Heights 3. CNN Interview 4. Wikileaks 2005 Cable Release 5. CIA Coups 6. White Helmets Sources: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ...
What we don’t hear about often when Syria is discussed are the two competing oil pipelines vying to run through Syria. Both pipelines seek to connect the largest natural gas field in the world, located ...
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