Archive for the 'Energy' Category
U.S. Firm Looking to Purchase New Zealand’s Most Strategic Asset
July 24th, 2009I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t know who’s behind the wheel of this thing, but it’s not Kiwis. There is some kind of insidious, international banking octopus thing happening here. New Zealand politicians are selling their own country out to a global criminal elite that is going to eat this […]
Public Menace Exxon Sabotaged Oil Wells
July 17th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest U.S. oil company, may be fined more than $1 billion for “malicious” sabotage of wells to prevent other producers from tapping fields it no longer wanted, the Texas General Land Office said. Jerry Patterson, commissioner of the land office that oversees oil leases that help fund Texas schools, […]
Exxon Spending $600 Million on Algae Based Biofuel Research
July 14th, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: New York Times: The oil giant Exxon Mobil, whose chief executive once mocked alternative energy by referring to ethanol as “moonshine,” is about to venture into biofuels. On Tuesday, Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae — organisms in water that range from […]
NSA Plans Massive Data Center in Utah
July 5th, 2009Via: The Salt Lake Tribune: The National Security Agency was so confident that its nearly $2 billion plan for a new data center in Utah would be approved by Congress that it began designing the facility last November. NSA budgeting documents also indicate that the design of the 1-million-square-foot center should be completed by February, […]
Government Energy Audit Required to Sell Your Home?
July 2nd, 2009Via: WWLP 22 News: The American Clean Energy and Security Act is aimed at reducing the nation’s energy consumption. The ambitious piece of legislation passed in the House on Friday. It addresses a variety of issues from carbon emissions to planting trees. The energy bill also proposes a change in how homes are sold. Originally, […]
Nigeria: Rebels Attack Multiple Oil Production Facilities
June 29th, 2009The ongoing oil infrastructure attacks in Nigeria have been stepped up in recent days. Shell is now having to shut in some production. Via: Reuters: Royal Dutch Shell said on Monday it had shut in some oil production at its western operations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta while it investigated reports of attacks on two well […]
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
June 25th, 2009Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order by F. William Engdahl: For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below […]
China Buys Addax for £4.4bn to Tap Iraqi Oil
June 24th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Who provided the credit for the U.S. to go to war in Iraq? Mmm hmm. See the part in bold below for a hint on where oil prices are headed. Via: Telegraph: China has made its first big foray into Iraq […]
Supertankers Storing Oil Plan to Deliver Cargoes, ICAP Says
June 16th, 2009Via: Hellenic Shipping News: A fifth of supertankers being used to store oil are scheduled to deliver their cargoes, according to ICAP Shipping, a unit of ICAP Plc, the world’s biggest broker of deals between banks. A so-called notice of redelivery was issued for seven of 33 supertankers storing crude, Simon Chattrabhuti, a London-based analyst […]
Royal Dutch Shell to Pay Pocket Lint in Settlement Over Deaths of Activists
June 9th, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Royal Dutch Shell PLC agreed Monday to pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the 1995 deaths of Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant faced a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan under the Alien Tort Claims Act, on allegations that it was complicit […]
