PHOTOS: Dignitaries stand around and have their photos taken at the Leduc No. 1 well near Devon on – if the Internet is to be believed – this day in 1947. Not sure if I believe that, seeing as the first photo below was supposed to have been taken on
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Northern Reflections: The Petro Goose Is Getting Cooked
http://eatocracy.cnn.com/ The oil industry has stopped laying golden eggs. Its profits are being squeezed. That news has not been widely reported. But, Andrew Nikiforuk writes, it has been hiding in plain sight on the U.S. Energy Administration website: Last July the government agency, which has collected mundane statistics on
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Oil And Democracy
http://www.slate.com/ Oil and Democracy — like oil and water — don’t mix.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: It’s Madness
Andrew Nikiforuk writes that petropolitics are behind what is going on in Ukraine: Russia, a true petro state, sits on one-fifth of the world’s natural gas supply. About one-third of the natural gas burnt in Europe comes from Russia via Ukraine, which once housed the Russian capital centuries ago. In
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