Needs
Nov 18, 2012
Bright Idea
Oct 9, 2012
Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?
Jun 21, 2012 In the way he has engaged in the geopolitics of oil as part of an American struggle for dominance among the major powers, President Obama’s global energy policies bear an eerie likeness to former Vice President Dick Cheney's.
Big Trouble in Little North Dakota
May 14, 2012 With 18 million Americans unemployed, thousands from across the country are flocking to North Dakota amid an oil boom there. The state now produces more oil than many members of OPEC and could soon make America the world’s top oil producer.
Study Raises New Concerns About Fracking
May 3, 2012 A study into the safety of gas drilling in New York state's Marcellus Shale concludes that natural faults and fractures, exacerbated by the effects of fracking, could allow chemicals to reach the surface and contaminate drinking water supplies much sooner than experts previously predicted.
Oil as a Public Good: Coming to Argentina
Apr 19, 2012 Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has infuriated Spanish oil barons by proposing a bill that would recover a majority share of a petroleum company from a foreign firm that has owned it since the early ’90s.
Backed Into the Corner
Mar 26, 2012
A Tough-Oil World
Mar 14, 2012 The world still harbors large reserves of petroleum, but they are of the hard-to-reach, hard-to-refine, “tough oil” variety that will be more costly to extract, refine and buy at the pump.
Pipeline Politics
Jan 23, 2012
Danger Waters
Jan 12, 2012 In 2012 and beyond, energy and conflict will be bound ever more tightly together, lending increasing importance to the key geographical flashpoints in our resource-constrained world.
