[CTRL] oil at 74.85/bbl now is the time to increase domestic supply of energy

[William A. Bacon]

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We can do it! What motivation does the madcap environemtal have to
continue with their scorched earth policy of opposing any increase in
supply of energy that would be effective competition to OPEC? What do you
think conspiracy heads out there? I think that they are being paid off by
opec in order to make us more dependent on them. and by the way link to my
energy page at:
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documents the available energy sources that would be effective competion
to OPEC




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[CTRL] oil is now at 75.10/bbl now is the time

[William A. Bacon]

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With oil now at 75.10/bbl  isn't it time to make use of known resources? A
relatively new technology known as Integrated Gassification Combined
Cycle can put to efficient use Coal (of which we have a 250 year supply
see http://www.learnaboutcoal.org) and other carbon based products/waste
and convert it into electricity and even into fuels! And of course we have
a tremondous reserve of oil in Alaska known as ANWR (The Arctic National
WASTELAND RESERVE - reserving wasteland for what???) where the temperature
is still well below freezing Why aren't we developing it? Is it beacuse
the these environmental groups are being paid off by opec in order to
keep us dependent on opec? Is this why they are opposed to every proposal
(except of course the ones that won't be effective competition to opec?)
An inquisitive mind would like to know.
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Integrated Gassification Combined Cycle and all of the domestic resources
these madcap environmental groups are preventing our use based onthe
flimesest of environmental reasons




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[CTRL] oil climbs to record in London on cern about IRAQ conflict

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Yet another reason to develop oil from ANWR (The arctic national WASTELAND
reserve- RESERVING WASTELAND FOR WHAT?
check this article out
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1006sid=a8AFA4mnjO8Yrefer=home




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[CTRL] oil development at the Artic NAtional Wildlife Reserve and National security

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source:
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Energy/National Security
National Security Demands More Diverse Energy Supplies

By Charli Coon

As the nation braces to deal with the national security threat of
terrorism, Washington must ensure an adequate supply of oil from reliable
sources at reasonably stable prices. Disruptions in oil supply, such as
occurred after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the 1979 Iranian revolution, and
the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, reinforce the need to reduce
America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

The United States first experienced oil disruptions in the 1970s when two
sudden and sharp oil price hikes rocked the economy. These disruptions
damaged industries that depend on oil and forced Americans to realize how
vulnerable the nation was to instability in the Middle East. Sufficient
and reliable supplies of energy are vital to U.S. energy and economic
security.

At the time of the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the United States imported about
35 percent of its oil. Since then, oil imports have increased to about 53
percent of American consumption. The Energy Information Administration at
the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that the United States will
increase its dependence on foreign oil to about 66 percent by 2030, much
of it from the Persian Gulf region.

The recent terrorist attacks on the United States should remind
policymakers that concentrating oil imports from any one region of the
world, such as the Middle East, places America's energy and economic
security at risk. Promoting diversity in supplies, enhancing the
transportation and delivery of supplies, developing other fuel sources,
and increasing energy efficiency to reduce America's dependence on oil
from the Gulf region are sound policies.

Reducing America's Dependence on Middle East Oil.
Reliance on imported oil has increased steadily over the past 25 years.
According to Energy Department data, the United States increased its oil
imports between 1973 and 1996 by about 40 percent. In 1996, net imports of
oil were about 46 percent of total oil consumption, with approximately 17
percent coming from the Persian Gulf.

In 2000, the United States imported about 24 percent of its oil from the
Middle East. Nearly 55 percent of America's gross oil imports that year
came from four countries: Canada (15 percent), Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
(14 percent each), and Mexico (12 percent). Currently, slightly over 50
percent of the oil that the United States imports every day comes from the
Western Hemisphere.

The Middle East holds over two-thirds of the world's oil reserves,
followed by 14 percent in the Western Hemisphere and 7 percent in Africa.
Clearly, Middle East oil producers will remain vital to the global
economy. Prolonged unrest and disruptions of supplies from this region,
however, will wreak economic havoc throughout the world.

While it is unlikely that the United States will ever be self-sufficient
in meeting its oil needs, greater diversity of oil imports would reduce
market instability and prices paid by consumers. President George W. Bush,
in his national energy plan, recognizes the global nature and importance
of the energy marketplace. His plan emphasizes the importance of
strengthening U.S. trade alliances with major oil producers and greater
oil production in the Western Hemisphere, Africa, the Caspian Sea region,
and other regions with abundant oil resources. Increased U.S., Canadian,
and Mexican energy production, pipeline linkages, and cooperation, for
example, would enhance America's energy security and advance the economies
of each of these countries.

In addition to increasing domestic production and upgrading the nation's
infrastructure, to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, Congress should
take steps to strengthen trade relations with other oil-producing regions
or countries, such as Canada, Mexico, Latin America, and Africa, and
ensure that America has a diversity of fuels available beyond oil to meets
its needs.

Importance of Oil to the Military.
Sufficient and reliable supplies of energy are essential for the nation's
military in times of peace, but they are especially so when it engages in
military action. For example, Greenwire reported on September 17 that the
582,000 soldiers in the Persian Gulf War consumed 450,000 barrels of
petroleum products each day. It takes eight times more oil to meet the
needs of each soldier today than it did during World War II. Further, the
Department of Defense accounts for about 80 percent of the U.S.
government's energy use, of which nearly 75 percent is for jet fuel. It is
essential that Washington pursue a diverse supply of oil to meet its
security needs.

Terrorism and Oil. Clearly, the more dependent the United States becomes
on oil from the Middle East, the more influence instability in that region
could have on the economy. The Department of Energy estimates that Middle
Eastern nations could nearly triple their oil revenues by 

[CTRL] Oil Companies Discover 'Sustainability'

[Oroboros]

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http://alternet.org/envirohealth/23805/

Oil Companies Discover 'Sustainability'

By Charles I. Burch, Prairie Writers Circle. Posted July 30, 2005.

The companies have yet to admit that no scheme for providing
sustainable energy can rely on petroleum.

Sustainability is big in corporate America today. The word, that is.
Once an arcane term used chiefly by foresters and agricultural
researchers, sustainable has become the label of choice that
executives use to describe their businesses.

Perhaps the most laughable of the newly sustainable corporations are
the oil companies. Pumping a finite resource like oil out of the
ground must be one of the least sustainable endeavors on the planet.
But this doesn't bother the oil industry, which knows a powerful
public relations word when it sees one.

The most recent ConocoPhillips annual report has a section titled
Technology Achieving Long-term Sustainability, and the CEO writes of
the company's sustainable growth plan. Annual reports from
ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil speak of sustainable development. And
BP and Shell issue reports on the sustainability of their operations.
There are even auditors willing, for a fee, to vouch for the
statements in these sustainability reports.

All this when Arthur R. Green, lecturer for the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists and former chief geoscientist of ExxonMobil,
says world oil production is nearing its peak.

The history of U.S. oil production is instructive.

Domestic oil output steadily rose until it peaked in 1970. Since then
production has declined despite the technological know-how of domestic
oil companies and the considerable incentive of high prices. Domestic
oil production in 2003 was less than 60 percent of its 1970 level.

To meet our demand we import foreign oil. More than 56 percent of what
we used in 2003 came from other countries, and the proportion
increases every year.

Increase, taper off, then decrease -- world oil production will follow
the same pattern. Some experts think world output is very near its
peak already, while others say the peak will arrive sometime between
now and 2050.

Five complications make this grim picture even bleaker.

First, the world's largest oil reserves tend to be in countries with
unstable governments. Unrest can disrupt supply.

Second, insiders have been suspicious for some time about oil reserve
figures claimed by certain Middle Eastern countries. In 1987 the
United Arab Emirates claimed reserves of 33 billion barrels; in 1988
they claimed 98 billion barrels, according to the U.S. Department of
Energy. Iraq and some other Middle Eastern countries also reported
similarly implausible sudden increases. These figures probably owe
more to politics than sound science.

Third, China, until 1993 a net oil exporter, now imports more than 40
percent of its oil and is the world's third largest importer, after
the United States and Japan. With 1.3 billion people, one-fifth of the
world's population, and an economy that has quadrupled since 1978,
China is developing a world-class thirst for oil. China and the rest
of Asia now consume about as much oil as the United States.

Fourth, as demand climbs past supply, already high oil prices will
rise even higher. The energy crisis of the 1970s showed how
sensitive overall inflation, interest rates and the stock market are
to increased oil prices. The oil squeeze will not just raise the cost
of energy. It will affect the entire economy.

Fifth, even as oil becomes more scarce, development of replacement
fuels remains on the back burner. Do not expect the oil companies to
do more than token research on other fuels. True, they do have
experience taking on large projects and have sophisticated ways of
analyzing risk. But their investment and expertise are in petroleum.

If an oil company makes a genuine sustainability breakthrough --
figuring out, for example, how to make hydrogen efficiently with solar
power -- you can be sure the company will publicize this rather than
promote the pleasant fiction that its current operations are
sustainable. The reality is that no scheme for providing energy
sustainably can rely on petroleum.

But do not expect to hear that from oil executives.

Charles Burch was a senior staff scientist at Conoco before retiring
in 2002. He wrote this essay for the Land Institute's Prairie Writers
Circle, Salina, Kan.

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[CTRL] OIl hits a new high $59.18 / bbl.

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil at anew all time high! And the radical left wing marxists/leninist
environmentaltist are still preventing us from developing known
oil/energy resources under the control of The united states/canada/mexico.
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[CTRL] oil at 48.80/bbl let's call your federal representatives and senators

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes,
Please call your federal Senators and Representatives to open Artic
NAtional Wildlife Reserve (Anwr) to development!
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[CTRL] oil at 48.77/bbl oil going back up

[William A. Bacon]

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OIl is going up! We can use additional coal now to replace imported oil
relatively quickly
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[CTRL] oil at 46.15/bbl still too high

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes $46.15/bbl is too high, There is a lot of North American resources
lets use it!
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[CTRL] oil at $47.12 It's still time to drill for the existing oil in ANWR

[William A. Bacon]

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Say wouldn't be a good idea to to reduce the current oil and LNG tanker
traffic in the world's oceans? The risk is of course tanker crashes which
pollutes water, beaches etc. (Question since crude oil is a naturally
occuring resource and which the earth creates even today can crude really
pollute?) I say let's develop the existing known oil and gas resouces in
ANWR where it's an artic waste land 9 months out of the year, and the
animal population has increased around the existing oil facillities on the
north slope.
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Re: [CTRL] oil at $47.12 It's still time to drill for the existing oil in ANWR

[flw2]

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Say wouldn't be a good idea to to reduce the current oil and LNG tanker
traffic in the world's oceans? The risk is of course tanker crashes which
pollutes water, beaches etc. (Question since crude oil is a naturally
occuring resource and which the earth creates even today can crude really
pollute?) I say let's develop the existing known oil and gas resouces in
ANWR where it's an artic waste land 9 months out of the year, and the
animal population has increased around the existing oil facillities on the
north slope.
check out my page at

The amount of oil to be pumped in ANWR amounts to spitting in the ocean. If
Alaska was pumped dry it would have little long term impact on the world's
energy shortage. Of course it will generate BBBillions for the Bush cronies.
When you factor in the direct and indirect taxpayer subsidies to the oil
industry - the price per gallon would probably far exceed the world market
price.
Most of the oil pumped in Alaska goes to Japan and China and offers no
direct benefit to the US domestic market. Sure it would contribute to the
world market supply but would have almost no impact on the world market PPB.
flw
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Re: [CTRL] oil at $47.12 It's still time to drill for the existing oil in ANWR

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Truer words were never spoken. Prudy
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Re: [CTRL] oil at $47.12 It's still time to drill for the existing oil in ANWR

[flw2]

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Flw2,
And your source for these assertions? The World Wildlife fund?
No, I am not a clueless, knee-jerk Neo-Con ideologue.
I only rely on a multiple of sources - including the oil industry and US
Govt sources.
The bottom line is that at best ANWR over 8-10 years might produce about 1
year's worth of US oil demand (at 2002 use rates about 8 billion barrels).
When you factor in the underestimated (till now) huge escalation of demand
in China, India and other Asian countries, the Alaska contribution to
worldwide supply is inconsequential. The oil depletion allowance is nothing
more then corporate welfare. Real patriots know the US must save its oil
resources and instead first use up the rest of the world's oil.
These Bush crooks and shills want to rip off our own natural resources and
send it to Asia.
If you would do your own research instead of parroting Corporate State
propaganda - you might gain some credibility.
flw
http://www.azgs.az.gov/Winter2001.htm (Good compilation of official
statistics)
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/info_glance/resources.html
http://www.oilanalytics.org/policy/dejavu.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10004-2004Oct5.html
also:
Winning the Oil Endgame: American Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and
Security
The End of Cheap Oil
Preparing for Oil Shortages
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of
the Age of Oil
Oil, Jihad  Destiny
Twilight in the Desert: The Fading of Saudi Arabia's Oil
Saudi Oil Reserves Overestimated - Simmons !!!
Peak Oil - A Presentation by Colin J. Campbell at the Technical
University of Clausthal
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Book
review,
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
The Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
The Coming Global Oil Crisis
Colin J. Campbell's slide show about the coming oil crisis
Colin J. Campbell
High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis
Ten Steps to a Sustainable Energy Future (pdf file)
Oil and Gas: Facing the Music Before it Stops
The Approaching Energy Crisis
Peak Oil Revisited -- The Bill Collector Calls
The Undeclared Oil War
Ghawar Oil Field is Dying
Peak Oil news and message boards
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil  Gas
National Petroleum Alliance
The Oil Crash and You
The Fossil Fuel Depletion Crisis
Surviving Fuel Shortages
Post Carbon Institute
Natural Capitalism
Finding the Peak
One-on-One with Matt Simmons
2003 Integrated Energy Policy Report
The Assessment and Importance of Oil Depletion
Short-Term Energy Outlook
Joy Ride to Global Collapse
Economic and Political Impacts of Fossil Fuel Use
Beyond Oil: The Future of Energy -
Oil Not Lasting Answer to Growing World Energy Needs
The Twenty First Century: The World's Endowment of Conventional Oil and
its Depletion
Depletion and U.S. Energy Policy
World Oil Supply Report
The Third Oil Crisis?
Are We Running Out of Oil? -
Energy Efficiency
What's At Stake In The Energy Debate?
Power Lunch with Energy Executives and Environmentalists -
Petroleum Resources
Energy Shortages
Oil  Natural Gas Depletion Report (pdf format)
World Energy Plan Triage -
Annual Energy Outlook
Fuelling the Future
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Energy Research and Analysis by Simmons and Company
Methane Madness: A Natural Gas Primer
Peak Oil: an Outlook on Crude Oil Depletion
How Much Saudi Oil is Left? - EV World
WRI study reveals oil from Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not
alleviate increasing U.S. dependence on foreign sources
Oil as a finite resource: When is global production likely to peak?
USA'S Triple Energy Whammy in Electric Power, Natural Gas  Oil
How soon will your energy supplies become very scarce and expensive?
The Imminent Peak of World Oil Production
Oil Supply: The Crunch Has Arrived!
M. King Hubbert Center for Petroleum Supply Studies
U. S. Energy Flow, 2000
The World's Giant Oilfields
The Mirage of a Growing Fuel Supply
Mideast Oil Imports Forever?
Oil: The Other Iraq War - MSNBC News
Peak Oil news and message boards
Oil depletion: One of the most important problems of the world
Looking at the Oil Market as a System
The Oil Problem
Oil depletion: One of the most important problems of the world
Over a Barrel
Federal Subsidies for Oil in the United States
Oil and Natural Gas Availability: A History of Federal Government
Overestimation
Alexander's Gas  Oil Connections
Petroleum
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Running on Empty
After Oil
Grand Old Petroleum
It's the Oil -
The Association for Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)
USA Oil Imports, 2001
The End of 

Re: [CTRL] oil at $47.12 It's still time to drill for the existing oil in ANWR

[Jude Andreas]

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In a message dated 11/10/2004 9:53:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If 
  you would do your own research instead of parroting Corporate 
  Statepropaganda - you might gain some 
credibility.flw

NAWI don't think that he will ever gain credibility. He lost it 
4,320 posts ago.

Judy


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[CTRL] oil at 47.95/bbl going down but lets get to work on resources here in North America.

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[CTRL] oil at $49.61/bbl still much too high lets convert coal to fuel...49

[William A. Bacon]

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there is a possible project in Pennsylvania check out:
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[CTRL] oil at $49.05/bbl thre are off shore oil resources that need to be developed.

[William A. Bacon]

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Another note on Nuclear POwer check out
A HREF=http://www.tvo.fi/126.htm; Finland's new nuclear power plant/A
or
http://www.tvo.fi/126.htm
Finland is building at least one NEW NUCLEAR POWER PLANT and they are
using the reason that it does not emit so called green house gases. Why
can't you anti-nuke eco freaks out there at least admit this fact?
as for off shore drilling usa check out my energy page for a link on
offshore drilling and don't forget there is a known large oil field off
the southern california coast which with development and the building of a
few new oil refineries on the west coast would help in lowering gas prices
check out
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and there is an article with evidence that new crude oil is constantly
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[CTRL] oil at $8.65/bbl still to high

[William A. Bacon]

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Well oil has declined a little bit but still too high! Now we can start
building NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS to replace imported oil and natural gas at
power plants and as a heat source for any industrial process. AND THE JOBS
AND MONEY  WILL STAY HERE IN THE UNITED STATES NOT sent by the
bucket load
outside of the united states check out some nuclear power facts at my
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[CTRL] oil at $50.98 now more than ever! It's time to allow development of energy resources

[William A. Bacon]

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Now that we have a more conservative congress and a re-elected George
Bush, Let's relax some of these overly restrictive alleged environmental
restrictions so that the free enterprise system may develop KNOWN ENERGY
RESOURCES HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
and yes you can check out my energy page at:
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and of course private industry can develop things like windmills to
generate electricity or even to split water into Hydrogen and oxygen for
another energy resource Why not allow free competition in this area?



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[CTRL] oil at $49.83/bbl oil shale lets develop it

[William A. Bacon]

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Oil shale it is estimated that there 3 Trillion bbls of oil in colorado
and wyoming lets start using it
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[CTRL] oil at $52.28/bbl again it's time!!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is till above $50.00/bbl we need to start developing USA?North
american resources now if only to cut down dependence by 15-20% it would
have very good effect on OPEC's behavior
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[CTRL] oil at $51.78/bbl anwr another example of opec competition suppression?

[William A. Bacon]

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Well there is no trading over the weekend so oil stays a $51.78/bbl.At
anwr the Federal governmet (hey! where in the United StatesConstitution
is authority to create anwr in the first place? an inquiring mind would
like to knoW!) estimates that there is 15 billion bbls of oil,45 trillion
cubic feet of natural gas. Of course in all probability there is much,
much more up tere just look at the recent tripling of known oil reserves
in Saudia arabia to 1.5 Trillion bbls of oil. How come we can't go and
develop this resource? It's an artic wasteland 9 months out of the
year,and the animal population has actually incresed after the existing
north slope facilities have been built. Wait I know! it's to protect the
environment! How conveinent isn't it? Just where a bunch of oil unsder
united states political control exists it is all of a sudden a fragile
delicate peice of real estate. Don't forget, in 1996 the congress
actually passed a bill to open up anwr but Bill Clinton vetoed it! Can you
imagine the current oil price crisis would not exist if we were getting an
additional 2 million/bbls per day out of anwr!
Ok it's time for all of you wacky environmentalists, under the pay
of opec to crank up your buzz phrase generators! Let me guess... Bill
Bacon is a facist, jbs nut case, tool of corporate interests who only want
to despoil the environment,extremist, and probably some additional names
that the opec, council on foreign relations, bilderberg controllers of the
wacko environmental/preservationist who rail against any
resource/energy/nuclear power plants, things that would REALLY DECREASE
UNITED STATRES DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
as always check out my webpage at:
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[CTRL] oil at 51.78/bbl environmental suppression of opec competition?

[William A. Bacon]

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Well today oil is at 51.78/bbl. Coal we have a lot of it! Remeber a few
years ago President Clinton used an executive order (Executive orders
there is no authority for executive orders in the United States
Constitution, in fact they directly contradict article 1 section 1 of the
United States Constitution) which created a National monument in Southern
Utah which conviently (national monuments, parks, forrests etc. again no
authority for these entities inthe United States Constitution) LOCKED UP
a very large deposit of high quality coal using, of course, the pretext of
protecting the environmnet another use of the environmental pretext to
shut
down competition to opec. check out our coal reserves at my energy
webpage:
A HREF=http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html; William A. Bacon's energy
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[CTRL] oil at $51.16 those wacky environmentalists ...again

[William A. Bacon]

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What do you think these wacky environementalits do should a large deposit
of crude oil would be discovered in say the most desolate piece of
wasteland in the country say...northeatern Nevada? Would this piece of
land all of a sudden be described as a sensitive and fragile
environment for some previously uncared for small variant of a flea bitten
rat? or scorpion? or something else? That's my bet and of course the
radical/left/wing/marxist/lenninist news media (they really control up to
a few years ago anyway) will be supportive of these wacky
environmentaltis, and presto this oil discovery will be probably be locked
up as new national park ...thus elimanting another bit of competition to
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[CTRL] oil futures at $51.56/bbl oil refining capacity near max

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil seems to be declining a little bit (still over $50.00/bbl) even if
oil should really decline we will still face possible shortages and higher
product prices because of a shortage of oil refining capacity see my
energy page for a block diagram of an oil refinery
A HREF=http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html; William's energy page/A
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[CTRL] oil at $55.12/bbl wacko environmentalits a big reason behind this big price

[William A. Bacon]

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OIl this morning at $55.12/bbl Wacko environmentalits have apparently made
it a policy to manufacture environmental reasons as to why we cannot
explore and develop oil on the northern slope of Alaska (it is a artic
waste land 9 months out of the year, animal population has actually
increased after the current oil production facillities have been built)
why we cannot build nuclear power plants (more people have been killed in
coal mine disasters, mishaps on oil drilling rigs than have died in
Nuclear power plant operations in the UNited states. and of course I could
go on. Why don't these environmentalists move to a rural area say southern
Colarodo live in caves, use all of their alleged solutions. If their
solutuions are so wonderful then people will be voluntarily adopt their
solutions instead of their current policy of Federal government corecion
which of course violates peoples' 13th amendment civil rights check out my
energy page at:
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[CTRL] oil at $54.18/bbl unrest around the world

[William A. Bacon]

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Oil worker unrest in Nigria, oil worker unrest in Norway, unrest in
venazuela huurricane IVAN, unrest in IRAQ scardy cat oil traders on the
New York Mercantile Exchange...oil refineries running at capacity
in the UNited States Solution? why develop known energy resources
right here in the North American continent and INCREASE oil refinery
capacity here i n the under political control of the UNited states?
check out my energy page at
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[CTRL] oil at $55.23/bbl it is now time to develop known existing north american energy resources!!!..**!!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes, early morning trading places oil at $55.23/bbl. Frontier
resource:Frozen Methane hydrates off of the coast of North and South
Carolina check my website at:
A HREF=http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html; Bill's energy report
page/A
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for a map and hotlink to the frontier source of frozen Methame
hydrates..
enjoy




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[CTRL] oil is still at $55.17/bbl no weekend trading!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is still at $55.17/bbl  Nuclear energy under total UNITED STATES
political control can be used also (in addition to my previous energy
message) to slit water into oxygen and Hydrogen Yes Hydrogen! to replace
imported oil and natural gas for transportation. And HOW ABOUT THE
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS OF OF ALL THOSE GIANT OIL TANKERS AND LNG TANKERS
PLYING THE WORLD'S OCEANS? Wouldn't replacing this tanker traffic with
PROVEN RESOURCES IN NORTH AMERICA RESUCE THIS ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD?
CHECK out my energy resource site at:
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enjoy!




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[CTRL] oil at 55.17/bbl the time is now to develop usa/canada/mexico energy resources!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is at $55.17/bbl. Nuclear power! Surely under USA political
control plants can be built to replace oil/coal/natural gas power plants
(with subsequent elimination of so called alleged green house gas
emmissions  see:  http://www.john-daly.com/schneidr.htm  ) and nuclear
plants can be built to supply heat to synthize fuels from oil shale, coal
and frozen methane hydrates and desailinate sea water. Please check out my
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[CTRL] oil at $54.66.bbl it is now time!!!!!....

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes,
Oil at $54.66 it is now time to develop north american energy resources!
Canadian oil sands ...while not under United States Political control,
there is now an estimated 1.5 Trillion Bbls of crude equal to the latest
(doubled) estimate of 1.5 Trillion barrels in Saudia Arabia. Canada is
ceratainly CLOSER AND FREINDiler than anybody in the Middle east. Check
out:
A HREF=http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html; Bill's energy resource
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[CTRL] oil at $54.66.bbl it is now its time

[William A. Bacon]

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Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy, talk.politics.misc, alt.activism
Subject: oil at $54.66.bbl  it is now time!

Yes,
Oil at $54.66 it is now time to develop north american energy resources!
Canadian oil sands ...while not under United States Political control,
there is now an estimated 1.5 Trillion Bbls of crude equal to the latest
(doubled) estimate of 1.5 Trillion barrels in Saudia Arabia. Canada is
ceratainly CLOSER AND FREINDiler than anybody in the Middle east. Check
out:
A HREF=http://www.info-quest.org/Energy.html; Bill's energy resource
page/A or:
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[CTRL] oil at 54.79 per barrell....!!!!***

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is now at 54.79 per barrell, it now time to develop energy
resources unser united states control like oil shale, there is at a
minimum 3 trillion barrels of oil in the UNITED STATES please checj out my
energy page at:
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page of Energy resources under US political control/A or simply:
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Bill Bacon




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[CTRL] oil at $53.52 per barrell the time is now !!!!__***!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is still over $53 per barrell it is time now to develop additional
KNOWN energy resources under  United States political control, check out
my webpage at:
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United States Political control/A
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[CTRL] oil at 52.99 a barrel the time is now!!!!**)()!!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes oil is at $52.99 a barrel the time is now to develop United states and
North american energy resources: Click
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[CTRL] oil at 54.79 a barrell now it is time***!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes you guessed it! It is time to develop energy resources united states
political control.
Check out:
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Thanks,
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Re: [CTRL] oil at 54.79 a barrell now it is time***!!!

[Jim S.]

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 Yes you guessed it! It is time to develop energy resources united states
political control.
Check out:
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Thanks, Bill Bacon 


With all due respect, the time to do this was (*at minimum*) 30+ years ago
when Jimmy Carter wanted to (and/or several decades prior)!!!




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Re: [CTRL] oil at 54.79 a barrell now it is time***!!!

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Well what happened?




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Re: [CTRL] oil at 54.79 a barrell now it is time***!!!

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 Well what happened? 

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Re: [CTRL] oil at 54.79 a barrell now it is time***!!!

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Yes i know! The environmental groups (who are are stooges for opec) used
the environment as a pretext to shut down as much competition to OPEC as
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[CTRL] oil hovering near $55 a barrel, IT's time!!!!

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[CTRL] oil near $55 a barrel, ISN'T time?????????????

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[CTRL] oil at 54.93 per barrel. Isn't it time!!!!????!!!!!!!

[William A. Bacon]

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Yes,
Oil at 54.93 per barrel, Isn't it time to to start developing KNOWN ENERGY
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[CTRL] oil

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Hello!
With oilo near $54 per barrel, isn't time to develop more and new energy
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[CTRL] Oil cartel, price fixing, fake shortage

[Brian Salter]

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3123oil_speculation.html


This article appears in the June 11, 2004 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. 

LaRouche: Bankrupt Speculators
With $25 Per Barrel Oil
by Richard Freeman and John Hoefle 

[Note: Figures and tables in this article are available to subscribers to Electronic Intelligence Weekly.]

In a declaration of war against the speculators who had pushed the price of crude oil above $42 a barrel, and are launching it towards $50-60, 2004 Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche called on May 28 for the price of oil to be set at a target price of $25-26 per barrel, by nation-to-nation contracts, in order to bankrupt and take away the power of the speculators, and restore order to the oil market. LaRouche has emphasized that the high oil price is not a product of a shortage of oil production, of OPEC cutting oil supplies, or other cover stories, but arises from speculation by the big oil companies, investment banks, hedge funds, and other financial players, who are using the extra take to try to hold the financial system together.

However, some in the circle of Vice President Dick Cheney favor a currently ongoing destabilization of the entire Southwest Asia and contiguous region: from the disaster in Iraq; to the recent terrorist assault in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, against a complex housing foreign oil workers, which killed two dozen people; to the violence in Pakistan; which would create chaos in the region. This plan, sanctioned by certain financial players who think the financial system can't be held together, would trigger a conflagration in Southwest Asia, and send the oil price to unprecedented heights.

Already in a Sept. 19, 2000 memorandum, entitled, Bring Oil Inflation Under Control, LaRouche had asserted that governments must declare a general strategic emergency, and establish contracts, directly between and among governments, of not less than 12 months' government scheduled deliveries of petroleum from exporting to consuming nations; at the same time, defining reasonable prices for these contracts. Based on these principles, the plan would bring a most critical segment of this speculative inflation under control, and also set standards of cooperation now urgently needed, for dealing with the general international banking and related crises (see page 10). Put into practice today, this urgent solution would bring the price of oil to the $25 range.

Rigged Market

Some fools will insist on buying the Brooklyn Bridge, no matter how many times you tell them it's already been sold. The same is true with the story that there is an oil shortage. The truth: No oil shortage exists. Figures from the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), the central collection point for world oil information, show that for the first quarter of 2004, world oil supplies were in the range of 82.3 million barrels a day (mbd), with consumption lower, in the range of 80.5 mbd to as high as 81.5 mbd. Thus, the world was in surplus during the first 90 days of the year, during the very period that world oil prices leapt by $7 per barrel.

Furthermore, there is no relationship between the price of oil and the amount of oil being produced. Over the past several decades, oil production has increased slowly and predictably. Figure 1 shows that, since 1992, production has grown by approximately 15% Though not shown, world oil consumption has also grown gradually and predictably. Only if production had dropped significantly, or consumption risen steeply, should the world oil price have jumped up. Neither of these two changes has happened. How, then, should one explain the activity of the past dozen years, in which the oil price swung wildly up and down, regardless of rising production levels? Figure 1 shows the price gyrated wildly, first downward, then upward, then down again, and then up; today, the oil price is more than 50% above its 1992 level.

The key to the ability of the financiers behind the oil cartel to manipulate prices in the oil market, is the shift which occurred during the oil crises of 1974 and 1979, in which long-term contractsfrequently for 24 or 36 monthsat stable prices were replaced with the spot market and then the futures markets.

Spot and Futures Markets

The oil spot market was created in 1969 by the Lazard/Rothschild-allied Philipp Brothers, then the world's largest metals trader. Philipp Brothers, largely in the person of their top trader Marc Rich, began by selling small quantities of Iranian crude oil to independent refiners. The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, which were orchestrated by the financier oligarchy under the cover of the OPEC oil embargo and the fall of the Shah in Iran, resulted in a shift in oil pricing away from long-term contracts toward the Rotterdam-based spot market. By spot is meant, that one buys the oil at a market only 24-48 hours before one takes physical (spot) delivery, as opposed to buying it 12 or more months in 

[CTRL] OIL AND HILTON'S FIRST HOTEL

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OIL AND HILTON'S FIRST HOTEL
Oil was discovered south of Ranger, Texas in 1917. It has been said that the Ranger oilfield caused the Germans to sue for peace and end World War One. The whole area became a beehive of activity. Cisco was on the edge of the oilfield and while the center of the oil boom was at Ranger, Cisco with its railroad intersection was the transportation center.

The oil boom attracted people from far and wide, including a young veteran of WWI who wanted to invest in a bank. The young man, Conrad Hilton, found a bank for sale in Cisco in 1919 but then the owner reneged on the price he had quoted. Mr. Hilton went to find a room for the night and walked to the Mobley Hotel, located across from the large brick train depot. He discovered that the rooms were rented for eight hour shifts and people were sleeping in the lobby. He quickly decided to go into the hotel business and the rest is history. He sold the hotel a few years later and the old building now houses a museum, a dinner theater
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[CTRL] Oil from Iraq : An Israeli pipedream?

[William Shannon]

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Oil from Iraq : An Israeli pipedream? 

Israel stands to benefit greatly from the US led war on Iraq, primarily by getting rid of an implacable foe in President Saddam Hussein and the threat from the weapons of mass destruction he was alleged to possess. But it seems the Israelis have other things in mind. 

An intriguing pointer to one potentially significant benefit was a report by Haaretz on 31 March that minister for national infrastructures Joseph Paritzky was considering the possibility of reopening the long-defunct oil pipeline from Mosul to the Mediterranean port of Haifa. With Israel lacking energy resources of its own and depending on highly expensive oil from Russia, reopening the pipeline would transform its economy. 

To resume supplies from Mosul to Haifa would require the approval of whatever Iraqi government emerges and presumably the Jordanian government, through whose territory it would be likely to run. Paritzky's ministry was reported to have said on 9 April that it would hold discussions with Jordanian authorities on resuming oil supplies from Mosul, with one source saying the Jordanians were "optimistic". Jordan, aware of the deep political sensitivities involved, immediately denied there were any such talks. 

Paritzky said he was certain the USA would respond favourably to the idea of resurrecting the pipeline. Indeed, according to Western diplomatic sources in the region, the USA has discussed this with Iraqi opposition groups. 

It is understood from diplomatic sources that the Bush administration has said it will not support lifting UN sanctions on Iraq unless Saddam's successors agree to supply Israel with oil. 

All of this lends weight to the theory that Bush's war is part of a masterplan to reshape the Middle East to serve Israel's interests. Haaretz quoted Paritzky as saying that the pipeline project is economically justifiable because it would dramatically reduce Israel's energy bill. 

US efforts to get Iraqi oil to Israel are not surprising. Under a 1975 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the US guaranteed all Israel's oil needs in the event of a crisis. The MoU, which has been quietly renewed every five years, also committed the USA to construct and stock a supplementary strategic reserve for Israel, equivalent to some US$3bn in 2002. Special legislation was enacted to exempt Israel from restrictions on oil exports from the USA. 

Moreover, the USA agreed to divert oil from its home market, even if that entailed domestic shortages, and guaranteed delivery of the promised oil in its own tankers if commercial shippers were unwilling or not available to carry the crude to Israel. All of this adds up to a potentially massive financial commitment. 

The USA has another reason for supporting Paritzky's project: a land route for Iraqi oil direct to the Mediterranean would lessen US dependence on Gulf oil supplies. Direct access to the world's second-largest oil reserves (with the possibility of expansion through so-far untapped deposits) is an important strategic objective. 

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 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-629399,00.html
  March 31, 2003


  Oil industry suppressed plans for 200-mpg car


  By Simon de Bruxelles



  THE original blueprints for a device that could have 
revolutionised the
  motor car have been discovered in the secret compartment of a 
tool
  box.


  A carburettor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on a 
gallon of
  fuel caused oil stocks to crash when it was announced by its
  Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in the 1930s.


  But the carburettor was never produced and, mysteriously, Pogue
  went overnight from impoverished inventor to the manager of a
  successful factory making oil filters for the motor industry. 
Ever
  since, suspicion has lingered that oil companies and car
  manufacturers colluded to bury Pogue's invention.


  Now a retired Cornish mechanic has enlisted the help of the
  University of Plymouth to rebuild Pogue's revolutionary 
carburettor,
  known as the Winnipeg, from blueprints he found hidden beneath a
  sheet of plywood in the box.


  The controversial plans once caused panic among oil companies 
and
  rocked the Toronto Stock Exchange when tests carried out on the
  carburettor in the 1930s proved that it worked.


  Patrick Davies, 72, from St Austell, had owned the tool box for 
40
  years but only recently decided to clean it out. As well as 
drawings
  of the carburettor, the envelope contained two pages of plans, 
three
  test reports and six pages of notes written by Pogue.


  They included a report of a test that Pogue had done on his
  lawnmower, which showed that he had managed to make the engine
  run for seven days on a quart (just under a litre) of petrol.


  The documents also described how the machine worked by turning
  petrol into a vapour before it entered the cylinder chamber, 
reducing
  the amount of fuel needed for combustion.


  Mr Davies has had the patent number on the plans authenticated,
  proving that they are genuine documents.


  He said: I couldn't believe what I saw. I used to be a motor 
mechanic
  and I knew this was something else altogether. I was given the 
tool
  box by a friend after I helped to paint her house in 1964. Her 
husband
  had spent a lot of time in Canada.


  The announcement of Pogue's invention caused enormous
  excitement in the American motor industry in 1933, when he drove
  200 miles on one gallon of fuel in a Ford V8. However, the 
Winnipeg
  was never manufactured commercially and after 1936 it 
disappeared
  altogether amid allegations of a political cover-up.


  Dr Murray Bell, of the University of Plymouth's department of
  mechanical and marine engineering, said he would consider trying 
to
  build a model of the Pogue carburettor.


  Engineers who have tried in the past to build a carburettor 
using
  Pogue's theories have found the results less than satisfactory.
  Charles Friend, of Canada's National Research Council, told
  Marketplace, a consumer affairs programme: You can get 
fantastic
  mileage if you're prepared to de-rate the vehicle to a point 
where, for
  example, it might take you ten minutes to accelerate from 0 to 
30
  miles an hour. 


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 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-629399,00.html
  March 31, 2003

Oil industry suppressed plans for 200-mpg car

By Simon de Bruxelles

THE original blueprints for a device that could have revolutionised the motor car have
been discovered in the secret compartment of a tool box.

A carburettor that would allow a car to travel 200 miles on a gallon of fuel caused oil
stocks to crash when it was announced by its Canadian inventor Charles Nelson Pogue in
the 1930s.

But the carburettor was never produced and, mysteriously, Pogue went overnight from
impoverished inventor to the manager of a successful factory making oil filters for the
motor industry. Ever since, suspicion has lingered that oil companies and car
manufacturers colluded to bury Pogue's invention.

Now a retired Cornish mechanic has enlisted the help of the University of Plymouth to
rebuild Pogue's revolutionary carburettor, known as the Winnipeg, from blueprints he
found hidden beneath a sheet of plywood in the box.

The controversial plans once caused panic among oil companies and rocked the Toronto
Stock Exchange when tests carried out on the carburettor in the 1930s proved that it
worked.

Patrick Davies, 72, from St Austell, had owned the tool box for 40 years but only
recently decided to clean it out. As well as drawings of the carburettor, the envelope
contained two pages of plans, three test reports and six pages of notes written by 
Pogue.

They included a report of a test that Pogue had done on his lawnmower, which showed 
that
he had managed to make the engine run for seven days on a quart (just under a litre) of
petrol.

The documents also described how the machine worked by turning petrol into a vapour
before it entered the cylinder chamber, reducing the amount of fuel needed for
combustion.

Mr Davies has had the patent number on the plans authenticated, proving that they are
genuine documents.

He said: I couldn't believe what I saw. I used to be a motor mechanic and I knew this
was something else altogether. I was given the tool box by a friend after I helped to
paint her house in 1964. Her husband had spent a lot of time in Canada.

The announcement of Pogue's invention caused enormous excitement in the American motor
industry in 1933, when he drove 200 miles on one gallon of fuel in a Ford V8. However,
the Winnipeg was never manufactured commercially and after 1936 it disappeared 
altogether
amid allegations of a political cover-up.

Dr Murray Bell, of the University of Plymouth's department of mechanical and marine
engineering, said he would consider trying to build a model of the Pogue carburettor.

Engineers who have tried in the past to build a carburettor using Pogue's theories have
found the results less than satisfactory. Charles Friend, of Canada's National Research
Council, told Marketplace, a consumer affairs programme: You can get fantastic mileage
if you're prepared to de-rate the vehicle to a point where, for example, it might take
you ten minutes to accelerate from 0 to 30 miles an hour.

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[CTRL] Oil free zone experiments ?

[Tony Dickinson]

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Here's a couple of areas to keep an eye on in the near future - they could
provide example test-cases of what might happen elsewhere ?

TD.

Feb 26, 2003:

Malta: Gas stations throughout Malta ran dry today as the state-run
Enemalta energy corporation brought fuel replenishment to a standstill.

Nigeria: Fuel reserves have ran out in Nigeria yesterday. According to
government officials, Nigeria's strategic Petroleum reserve has dropped
from 24 days worth of fuel, to just over 11 days worth.

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[CTRL] Oil, Iraq, SUVs, War, ...

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US, Iraq are brothers in arms for oil
http://www1.timesofindia.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=34493185
AP[ THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 2003 10:18:38 AM  ]

NEW YORK: Under sanctions and an erratic leader, Iraq has hardly been a
reliable global oil supplier.

But in an odd twist, the United States has grown increasingly reliant on Iraqi oil
exports to replace supplies cut off by a seven-week-old strike in Venezuela --
even as the Bush Administration steps up preparations for a possible invasion --
raising further concerns about the impact a US attack would have on the oil
market.

The United States gets several hundred thousand barrels a day of crude oil
from Iraq, said John Lichtblau, chairman of PIRA Energy in New York. That's
not insignificant.

Unpublished, preliminary government data indicate exports of Iraqi oil to the
United States have been rising in recent weeks. Since the December 2 start of
the labour strike in Venezuela, Iraq's crude oil exports to the United States have
averaged more than 500,000 barrels a day, nearly double the volume reported
during the September-November period, the data show.

Last week, Iraqi oil exports to the United States jumped to 830,000 barrels a
day, their highest level since early last year and nearly 10 per cent of total US
imports that week, according to an Energy Department analyst.

While Iraq's exports remain below levels seen in 2001 and early 2002, the
recent surge, including the shipments to the United States, is making a
difference, analysts said.

The surge in Iraqi shipments helped boost total crude oil imports into the United
States by 200,000 barrels a day last week to 8. 5 million barrels a day.

That's probably in reaction to the loss of Venezuelaexports, said Aaron Brady,
an analyst at Energy Security.

Iraqi oil exports have been erratic since the start of the United Nations oil-for-
food programme six years ago. The programme allows Iraq to sell as much oil
as it likes provided the revenue goes into a UN account and is used mostly for
humanitarian purposes.

After topping 1 million barrels a day in January and February of last year, Iraqi oil
exports to the United States nose-dived. The decline came in response to the
onerous conditions of a new UN pricing policy imposed to frustrate Baghdad's
efforts to collect an illegal surcharge from traders.

Iraq compounded the problem by cutting off its exports in April in an ill-fated
effort to spark a broad oil embargo in support of the Palestinians.

For much of last year, Iraqi exports averaged less than 1 million barrels a day,
with less than half coming to the United States.

Faced with a sharp loss of revenue and US threats of military action, Iraq quietly
dropped the surcharge demand in September. Some analysts saw the move as
an attempt to build commercial ties as a bulwark against a US attack.

Whatever the motive, the change prompted major international oil companies to
return to the Iraqi market for the first time in nearly two years, according to
industry analysts and UN diplomats.

The result has been a clear rise in Iraq's oil exports according to UN figures.
Since the start of September, Iraqi exports have averaged about 1.5 million
barrels a day, the figures show.
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[CTRL] Oil-Rich Island to Russia

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From http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/16/183311.shtml

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

U.S. Hands Oil-Rich Island to Russia

Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002

WASHINGTON – Billions in oil rights are at stake. But the State Department is handing 
the
oil-rich Sakhalin Island to Russia. Single-handedly, the Bush administration is 
breaking a
peace treaty signed at the end of World War II by 47 countries.

This may well be another step in the president’s effort to forge closer ties with 
post-Soviet
Russia so that if the U.S. goes to war with Iraq and some Middle East oil spigots to 
this
country are cut off as a result, the Russians will be able to fill the void.

However, as NewsMax.com reported Aug. 10, the Russian government has put under a 70-
year seal all of its archives documenting KGB and Communist Party support for 
international
terrorist organizations that now threaten American lives.

As espionage expert J. Michael Waller of the Institute for World Politics has 
explained, The
Soviets created the terror networks that ultimately became the Islamic terrorist 
networks
that we’re fighting today.”

Moreover, beyond the risky assumption that giving Russia undisputed control of more 
oil will
help the U.S. in the event of war with Iraq, the move raises questions of U.S. 
diplomatic
credibility that could also backfire at the very time President Bush is seeking more 
allies in
the war against terrorism in general and against Iraq in particular.

But Japan Can't Sell Us Any Oil

In making this move to cede Sakhalin Island without the consent of the 46 other 
countries
that signed the treaty with the defeated Japanese, the State Department is unilaterally
legitimizing Soviet occupation of the former Japanese territory.

The Soviets entered the war against Japan in the final days of World War II, even 
though it
was clear that victory was at hand, thanks in large measure to America’s new status at 
the
time as the world’s sole nuclear power.

Last-minute Soviet involvement in the Pacific phase of the Second World War resulted 
from
a series of secret agreements at disastrous Big Three” conferences near the end of the
war. These meetings of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union ended up 
as a
one-way street in the USSR’s favor. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, egged on by
Soviet agents Alger Hiss and Harry Hopkins, who were at his side, gave Joseph Stalin’s
genocidal regime virtually everything it demanded.

When the Stalin’s Red Army did declare war on Japan in the waning days of the war, the
Soviets grabbed everything in sight, gained a further foothold in Asia, and contributed
virtually nothing to victory there. Sakhalin Island, which was part of Japan during 
World
War II, was invaded by the Soviets in the war’s final days.

Not only was the treaty signed by 47 victors in World War II, the U.S. Senate, in 
giving its
consent in 1952, specifically stipulated that the treaty does not confer any right, 
title, or
benefit [to Sakhalin Island] on the Soviet Union.”

The Soviets, having bared their fangs and started the Cold War, continued to occupy the
island anyway. The Soviet Union and the successor Russian government have refused to
sign a peace treaty with Japan and have continued to occupy the territory.

According to the organization State Department Watch, the department is acting as if 
the
Russians are sovereign instead of recognizing the rights of 47 World War II allied 
countries
which collectively received it from Japan in the 1951 treaty.”

Follow the Money

The stakes are high:

Billions of dollars of resources have been identified within the 200-mile exclusive 
economic
zone that extends into the ocean from Sakhalin Island.
Major oil deals involving these resources have been advanced to such giants as Shell,
ExxonMobil Corp. and British Petroleum.
Furthermore, according to Carl Olson of State Department Watch (SDW), no royalties have
been paid to any of the 47 treaty signatories.

As the New York Times reported Aug. 6, Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East” is 
the
eastern frontier of the expansion of the Russian oil industry,” and is Russia’s first 
open
door for foreign oil developers.”

All told,” said the Times, foreign concerns are expected to invest about $13 billion 
over
the next four years to build pipelines, a giant gas liquefying plant, storage plants 
and even
roads and airports to ship oil and gas to world markets, particularly in Asia.”

Not so fast, says SDW's Olson.

We are urging the Bush administration, Congress and the other 46 signatory countries 
to
stand up for their rights and international law to protect the public’s interest in 
southern
Sakhalin Island and the human rights of the inhabitants,” he said. Appeals have been 
sent
to the Bush administration departments, committees of the Senate and House and the
ambassadors of the 46 countries in Washington.”

The administration has not cited any legal 

[CTRL] Oil and conspiracy theories

[Euphorian]

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From
World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org




WSWS : Polemics

Oil and “conspiracy theories”: a reply to a liberal apologist for the US war in 
Afghanistan

By Patrick Martin
20 September 2002

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Below is the first part of a two-part article replying to a recent commentary 
attacking so-
called “conspiracy theories” about the US response to the September 11 terror attacks,
including an article posted last November on the World Socialist Web Site. The second 
part
will appear Saturday, September 21.

An article published in the July issue of American Prospect, the monthly liberal 
magazine
edited by Robert Kuttner, denies that the war in Afghanistan is an integral part of the
struggle by the United States to dominate the oil and gas resources of the Caspian and
Central Asia. Any suggestion that the US war is driven by such concerns amounts to an
illegitimate and paranoid “conspiracy theory,” claims the writer, Ken Silverstein. 
[“No War
for Oil!” http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/ 14/silverstein-k.html]

As a “classic example” of such a conspiracy theory, Silverstein singles out an article 
posted
on the World Socialist Web Site last year, under the headline, “US planned war in
Afghanistan long before September 11.” He quotes only a single paragraph from the WSWS
article, identifying only the author—this writer—but not the publication. The passage 
reads:
“The American media has conducted a systematic cover-up of the real economic and
strategic interests that underlie the war against Afghanistan, in order to sustain the
pretense that the war emerged overnight, full-blown, in response to the terrorist 
attacks of
September 11.”

This paragraph is a peculiar choice for denunciation, since what it asserts is almost 
self-
evident, and not at all conspiratorial. The American media has, as any objective 
observer
would be compelled to admit, obediently parroted the Bush administration’s claims that 
the
sole motive for the US invasion of Afghanistan was to punish those responsible for the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, thus covering up the other, more
fundamental reasons for the war. Silverstein is well aware of the corrupt and 
prostituted
role of the American media. In fact, he is contributing editor of a publication, 
Counterpunch,
which boasts in its masthead: “Twice a month we bring our readers the stories that the
corporate press never prints.”

Nonetheless, Silverstein cites the WSWS claim as the height of paranoia, adding, “These
sorts of conspiracy theories, especially the ones concerning oil supplies, aren’t just
circulating in fringe circles, they’ve found their way into mainstream outlets, too.” 
He then
cites reports in the British, French and American press, including the Chicago Tribune 
and
the New York Times, both pillars of the bourgeois establishment, which concede that the
interests of the oil industry are a powerful factor underlying the Afghan war.

According to Silverstein, who prefers piling up adjectives to genuine critical 
analysis, those
who claim that oil plays a major role in the US intervention in Afghanistan are guilty 
of
being “paranoid,” “ludicrous,” “utterly ridiculous,” “dubious,” “particularly stupid,” 
“not
remotely realistic,” “dumb” and “delusional.” What he is denouncing so stridently, 
under the
pejorative label of conspiracy theory, is any investigation into the concrete material
interests involved in US foreign policy. He forbids any consideration of how the war 
serves
to further the predatory interests of corporate America, through the seizure of 
territory and
valuable natural resources. Precisely what is essential to the analysis of American
imperialism he declares illegitimate.

The resources of Central Asia

Silverstein claims that those who point to the role of oil in the Afghan war “display 
little
understanding of the Caspian or of energy markets.” He seeks to substantiate this 
blanket
assertion by citing alleged factual errors made by the “conspiracy theorists”: they 
grossly
overestimate the amount of oil within Afghanistan, or the country’s potential as a 
pipeline
route from oil and gas fields deeper in Central Asia; they don’t understand the 
location of
other pipeline projects, or the potential market destination for oil and gas shipments.

None of these errors are quoted from the specific writers who allegedly made them.
Silverstein simply attributes them in general to all those who have sought to analyze 
the
role of the energy industry in the Afghan war. He concocts a series of straw men and
ridicules and abuses them as a substitute for actually addressing the question of the
relation of the Afghanistan war to the oil resources of Central Asia.

This cynical method is typified by Silverstein’s headline, “Is the United States 
really after
Afghanistan’s resources? Not a chance.” That Afghanistan itself possesses little in 
the way
of oil 

[CTRL] OIL COMPANIES ARE NOT DISCLOSING UP TO $6 BILLION

[Euphorian]

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From
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News from Ed Markey

United States Congress
Massachusetts Seventh District


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 9, 2002
CONTACT: Israel Klein or David Moulton
(202) 225-2836

GAO FINDS OIL COMPANIES ARE NOT DISCLOSING UP TO $6 BILLION IN
CLEANUP LIABILITIES ON NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA

Markey Calls on SEC Chairman Pitt, Interior Secretary Norton to Warn Investors of
and Protect Taxpayers from Huge Potential Losses from Environmental Degradation

WASHINGTON, D.C. --

Congressman Markey (D-MA) today released a report by the General Accounting
Office (GAO) finding that oil company liability for removing existing oil and gas
infrastructure and restoring the tundra on the North Slope of Alaska may run as high
as $6 billion, but existing industry bonds will cover only a fraction of that cleanup.

Hiding $6 billion in cleanup liabilities is a world-class accounting scandal in the 
same
league as WorldCom or ENRON, said Markey. The report makes clear that oil
companies are refusing to disclose the soaring cost of their existing liability on the
North Slope, a potentially massive accounting issue that needs to be addressed
before it is sprung on unsuspecting investors, workers and the public. In addition, the
report is a powerful indictment of the existing federal and state permitting process,
which allows private oil and gas development on public lands using permits that are
so vague and financial assurances so inadequate that the public interest in restoring
these lands may never be redeemed.

The lawmaker also released two letters he is sending today in response to the report
seeking action from the Department of Interior and from the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC).

In the letter to SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt, Markey noted how recent experience had
reminded everyone of the costs of failing to be vigilant when accounting gimmicks
are used to hide a company´s true financial condition, and he asked the SEC to
demand a true accounting of the size and scope of the dismantlement, removal and
restoration (DRR) cleanup liability of each of the oil companies active on the North
Slope of Alaska.

In Markey´s letter to Interior Secretary Norton, he demanded that the Department of
Interior undertake the actions recommended by the GAO report to reform the
bonding system. These reforms would ensure that the oil and gas industry, not the
public taxpayer, shoulders the risk of failing to set aside the resources to do the
necessary restoration of our public land following oil and gas development.

The GAO report raised new concerns about the state of the dismantlement, removal
and restoration (DRR) activities on the state-owned lands in the Prudhoe Bay area.
Although the inadequacies of these DRR activities have long been recognized, the
Army Corps of Engineers largely defers to the state regarding permits and
restoration requirements on federally-permitted wetlands. Moreover, of immediate
concern to Rep. Markey as well as the GAO, are how DRR the new federal leases
on federal land in the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA) will
be overseen and ensured. New leasing began there in 1999, and the Bush
Administration just issued a second round of leases in NPRA on June 3, 2002.

It is clear from this report that the Interior Department has delegated its public
responsibilities to a few giant oil companies when it comes to restoring public lands,
Markey continued. Both the Department and the industry have a very lax definition
of what will be required and how much they will have to pay. The failure to impose
those requirements in the leases we are issuing today could guarantee permanent
damage on these ecologically- sensitive public lands for centuries to come.

In recommendations for Executive action, the GAO urges the Secretary of Interior to
instruct the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to issue specific dismantlement,
removal and restoration (DRR) requirements and to review the adequacy of its
financial assurance program in order to ensure that the lands of the National
Petroleum Reserve-Alaska are properly restored after oil and gas activities cease.
(page 78)

In recommendations for Congressional action, the GAO notes that any future
decision to open up new federal lands to oil and gas activities should consider
including specific restoration goals and specific financial assurances sufficient to
meet those goals. (page 79)

Specific findings of the report include:

FEDERALLY-PERMITTED STATE-OWNED LANDS

· None of the five oil companies on the North Slope were willing to provide their
estimated DRR liability, 

[CTRL] Oil Firm on the Rox

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From

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

Cheney's former oil firm founders

By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff, 6/2/2002

WASHINGTON - The story has a familiar ring. A Texas energy company plummets
in the stock market. The CEO appeals to Washington for financial help. A federal
securities probe is launched. Reports focus on a merger that may have backfired,
10,000 laid-off employees, and a former chief executive who walked away with
millions of dollars in compensation.

But this is not Enron; it is the Halliburton Corp., and the former executive is Vice
President Dick Cheney.

It has been nearly three years since Cheney left the helm of Halliburton to become
George W. Bush's running mate, and the company's fortunes have not worked out
the way Cheney or the company might hope. Just three weeks ago, the company's
current chief executive, David Lesar, bluntly urged shareholders to descend upon
Washington to win federal protection from asbestos-related lawsuits. The vast
majority of those 290,000 claims stem from a merger overseen by Cheney that could
make the company liable for billions of dollars.

In his campaign for the vice presidency, Cheney touted his leadership of the 85,000-
employee Halliburton Corp. But since then, the firm's fortunes have faltered
dramatically; on the day six months ago that it became clear the company could be
seriously hurt by asbestos claims, the stock plummeted more than 40 percent in just
a few hours.

According to stock analysts, the company's stock valuation today might be as high as
$18 billion - instead of the current $8 billion - were it not for the potential 
liability
shouldered after the Cheney-engineered 1998 merger between Halliburton and
Dresser Industries. The asbestos liability is not the only concern. Last week, the
company revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched a
preliminary investigation into an accounting practice - adopted when Cheney was
CEO - in which unapproved billings were counted as revenue.

While some of Halliburton's problems lie with the cyclical nature of the oil business,
the biggest troubles stem from Cheney's decision to merge Halliburton with Dresser.

The merger ''was probably one of the most foolish decisions Halliburton ever made,''
said lawyer John Wall of Houston, who represents several dozen laid-off employees.
''Cheney would have had to know'' about the potential asbestos liability, Wall said.
''That would be part of his due diligence. If he didn't know, that would be total
incompetence.''

A Cheney spokeswoman referred calls to Halliburton, where chief financial officer
Douglas L. Foshee said the potential asbestos liabilities were known but were not
considered significant enough to deter an otherwise worthwhile merger.

The drop in the stock price from the potential asbestos liability has been felt deeply 
in
Boston. Fidelity Investments, the mutual fund giant, last year was the largest
shareholder of Halliburton stock, with nearly 10 percent. But Fidelity had cut its
holdings to just 4 percent as of March; the company won't say whether it took a huge
loss like many other investors who sold during the last year.

Another Boston company, the institutional investment firm of Wellington
Management LLP, has stepped in to buy Halliburton shares and in March became
Halliburton's top shareholder, with 8.2 percent of the stock. Wellington declined
comment.

It was 1995 when Cheney, who served as the secretary of defense under President
George H. W. Bush, parlayed his government experience into the job as CEO of
Halliburton. In 1998, Cheney went on a quail hunt in South Texas with Dresser chief
executive Bill Bradford and the two began talking about a merger.

In merging with Dresser, Cheney picked a firm with long ties to the Bush family.
Prescott Bush, the father of the former President Bush, was the banking
representative who helped finance the deal that established Dresser and served on
the company's board. The former president wrote in his autobiography that Neil
Mallon, the former president of Dresser Industries, ''was a mentor second only to my
father.''

It was Mallon who helped former President Bush get into the oil business, and Bush
worked for Dresser for 21/2 years. The brother of the current President Bush, Neil, is
named after Mallon.

Halliburton officials said that they knew nothing about the Bush family's history with
Dresser and that they knew of nothing to indicate that the Bush family gained
anything from the merger or held any financial interest in either company. A
spokesman for Cheney and former President Bush did not respond to questions
about the matter.

Cheney announced the merger with Dresser with great personal fanfare, calling it
''one of the most exciting things I've been involved in.''

He said at the time: ''The merger is designed to result in long-term benefits for the
company's stakeholders - its customers, employees, and shareholders.''

As 

[CTRL] Oil Moves the War Machine

[Wes676767]

http://www.progressive.org/June%202002/klare0602.html



June 2002
Oil Moves the War Machine
by Michael T. Klare

Since its inception, the Bush Administration has launched two great foreign policy initiatives: a global war against terrorism, and a global campaign to expand American access to foreign oil. Originally, each possessed its own rationale and mode of operation. As time has passed, however, they have become increasingly intertwined, so that today the war on terrorism and the struggle for oil have become one vast enterprise.

The underpinnings of the Bush foreign policy can be found in the national energy policy paper of May 17, 2001, known as the Cheney report. This report became infamous for two reasons: Cheney wouldn't release the names of the people he consulted for it, and the report recommends drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But these controversies distracted attention away from the gist of the report, which is spelled out in chapter eight, "Strengthening Global Alliances." There, the report "recommends that the President make energy security a priority of our trade and foreign policy."

The report says the United States will become increasingly reliant on foreign oil. At present, we obtain about half of our petroleum from foreign sources; by 2020, imports will account for two-thirds of U.S. consumption, the report predicts. From this, it draws two conclusions: The United States must maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and other oil producers in the region, and the United States must diversify oil suppliers around the world. "Middle East oil producers will remain central to world oil security," it says, but "our engagement must be global." This means developing close ties with major suppliers in all oil-producing areas, including the Caspian region, Africa, and Latin America, which the report calls "high-priority areas."

The Administration was already poised to act on this policy when Arab hijackers struck New York and Washington on September 11. These plans were then put aside, as the White House concentrated its attention on efforts to immobilize Al Qaeda and to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. By December, however, the Administration was ready to focus again on the security aspects of growing U.S. dependence on imported oil.

The primacy of oil is clear in several places, most obviously, Saudi Arabia. Though fifteen of the eighteen hijackers were Saudi, though Osama bin Laden himself is Saudi, though the Saudis practice Wahhabism and finance some of the most reactionary madrassas around the world, the Bush Administration is in no position to break relations with the kingdom. Saudi Arabia possesses 25 percent of the world's known oil reserves. And, as the Cheney report notes, "Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter, has been a linchpin of supply reliability to world oil markets." It seems Washington has embraced the current Middle East peace initiative by Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia as a way not only to break the Sharon-Arafat logjam but also to shore up the reputation of this crucial ally.

Or look at the U.S. military training operation in the Republic of Georgia, which is just getting under way. Ostensibly, the aim of the operation--which will involve the deployment of several hundred U.S. Special Forces advisers--is to enhance the capacity of Georgian forces to fight terrorists and other insurgents along its border. While this is certainly one of the operation's objectives, it is also evident that Washington seeks to reduce the threat to the vital pipelines that will carry oil from the Caspian Sea across Georgia to ports on the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Although the main pipeline is still under construction, U.S. officials are clearly worried that it will become a major target for the various ethnic militias that operate in the area.

"The Caspian Sea can also be a rapidly growing new area of supply," the Cheney report notes. "Proven oil reserves in Azerbaijan and Kazakh-stan are about twenty billion barrels, a little more than the North Sea." One find in Kazakhstan, it adds, is "comparable to Prudhoe Bay," the giant oil field off the north coast of Alaska. Its recommendation to the President: "Ensure that rising Caspian oil production is effectively integrated into world oil trade." One way it is doing this, in the wake of September 11, is to establish permanent bases in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

A similar situation is developing in Colombia. The United States has increasingly involved itself in Colombia's civil war, first on the pretext of fighting the war on drugs. (Both the leftwing guerrillas and the rightwing paramilitaries are involved in the drug trade, but the United States shows little interest in the paramilitaries.) Increasingly, the Bush Administration is seeking to aid the Colombian military directly in its war against the guerrilla groups--often described as terrorists by U.S. and Colombian officials. In the 

[CTRL] Oil War in Colombia

[Joshua Tinnin]

-Caveat Lector-

from - http://216.157.10.92/moles/post-it/posts/70.html

#1  TAKE ACTION!  Stop Bush's Oil War in Colombia

Bush's Pipeline Protection Proposal is Corporate Welfare for Oxy

This week marked a new phase of the US war in Colombia. No more double
speak, no more euphemisms, just good old fashion oil-igarchy straight talk.
Why do we give military aid to one of Latin America's most brutal
militaries? According to George Bush's new budget proposal $98 million is
going to be used to protect US oil companies interests in Colombia,
specifically Occidental Petroleum's Canon Limon pipeline.

Since they formed the US Colombia Business Partnership in 1996 US energy
corporations like Occidental Petroleum, Texas Oil and Enron have been
lobbying for US military aid to Colombia. In the last three years they have
succeeded in hijacking US foreign policy and winning passage of $1.3 billion
in US military aid as part of Plan Colombia.

The American people were told that this aid package was part of the War on
Drugs and the stated policy was that the US would not get involved in
counter-insurgency. But starting on September 12th we didn't hear so much
about the War on Drugs in Colombia we started hearing a lot more about the
War on Terrorism and the need to protect US oil pipelines from terror
attacks.

Now Bush's new proposal has affirmed what the U'wa and other indigenous,
human rights and environmental groups have been saying about U.S. policy in
Colombia all along - US policy in Colombia is being written by oil
companies. America is allowing our addiction to fossil fuels to drag us into
Colombia's civil war. U.S. military aid will be used to violate human
rights, deepen the conflict and support the expansion of environmentally
destructive oil projects. Oil companies like Oxy will benefit but a steep
price will be paid by communites and fragile ecosystems in Colombia.

Oil and violence go hand in hand in Colombia. 1 in 4 soldiers in the
Colombian military is protecting oil instillations. US oil companies like
Occidental pay $1 war tax per barrel produced and new oil development
becomes a magent for the violence of Colombia's 4 decade long civil war. The
U'wa have repeatedly mobilized to resist oil development and to speak out
against US military aid. Now with Bush making military support for Oxy's
operations part of the War on Terrorism we must break the silence about the
oil war and stop any more US military aid to Colombia. Here's 2 simple
actions you can take to support the people of Colombia in their efforts to
bring peace and justice to their country.

CALL OR WRITE YOUR SENATORS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY
AND URGE NO MORE $$$ FOR VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA!
The White House: (202) 456 1414 Capital Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
To find your Senators and Representatives, go to www.senate.gov and
www.house.gov

WRITE LETTERS TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER AND SAY NO TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR
OIL VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA!
Use Amazon Watch's op-ed below as an example of how to educate the
public about the Bush administration's real agenda in Colombia.

For a thorough breakdown and analysis of US military aid to Colombia, go
to www.ciponline.org/colombia




#2

AMAZON WATCH
February 7, 2002
OPINION EDITORIAL

Atossa Soltani, Executive Director, Amazon Watch

Bush Reveals the Crude Nature of US Colombia Policy by Proposing
Military Protection for OXY
Plan Will Only Fuel Civil Strife in Colombia

President Bush's proposed $98 million for protection of Occidental Petroleum
's (OXY) pipeline reveals the hidden agenda behind the Bush Administration's
Colombia policy-namely subsidizing and securing US corporations' access to
Colombia's oil reserves.

Amazon Watch opposes President Bush' plan to subsidize security costs for a
socially irresponsible corporation bent on operating in a war zone. This
strategy is a sure recipe for increased abuses against indigenous and local
communities that may have legitimate concerns about OXY's operations.

Disturbingly, OXY was one of the only US oil companies who last year refused
to sign the Clinton Administration's Voluntary Principals on Security and
Human Rights, a code of conduct aimed at preventing human rights abuses by
private security and police forces hired to protect company installations.

In recent years, the company has repeatedly called the military to the
Siriri concession to break up peaceful blockades by the U'wa people who have
been resisting drilling on their sacred territory. Two indigenous children
died during one such attack and others were injured.

In June 2001, a Colombian judicial inquiry exposed active collaboration
between AirScan, OXY's private security firm guarding the pipeline, and the
Colombian military. Eighteen civilians, mostly children, were killed when
AirScan helped an air attack on the village of Santo Domingo by providing
information gathered during security work 

[CTRL] Oil, Sharon And The Axis Of Evil

[William Shannon]

http://www.rense.com/general20/exx.htm



Oil, Sharon And The Axis Of Evil
2-12-2

Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the Great Satan.   

It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new discovery. As if by the order of a drill-sergeant, the whole Israeli phalanx changed direction. All the politicians, all the generals, all the enlisted media, with the usual complement of professors-for-hire, - all of them discovered overnight that Iran is the immediate, real and terrible danger.   

By wondrous coincidence, at exactly the same moment a ship was captured that, allegedly, carried Iranian arms to Arafat. And in Washington Shimon Peres, a man for all seasons and the servant of all masters, accosted every passing diplomat and told him stories about thousands of Iranian missiles that have been given to the Hizbullah. Yes, yes, Hizbullah (included by President Bush in the list of "terrorist organizations") is receiving horrible arms from Iran (included by President Bush in the "Axis of Evil") in order to threaten Israel, the darling of the Congress.   

Does this sound mad? Not at all. There is method in this madness.   

On the face of it, the matter is easy to explain. America is still in a state of fury after the Twin-Towers outrage. It has won a amazing victory in Afghanistan, hardly sacrificing a single American soldier. Now it stands, furious and drunk with victory, and does not know who to attack next. Iraq? North Korea? Somalia? The Sudan?   

President Bush cannot stop now, because such an immense concentration of might cannot be laid off. The more so, as Bin-Laden has not been killed. The economic situation has deteriorated, a giant scandal (Enron) is rocki ng Washington. The American public should not be left to ponder on this.   

So here comes the Israeli leadership and shouts from the roof-tops: Iran is the enemy! Iran must be attacked!   

Who has made that decision? When? How? And most importantly - Where? Clearly not in Jerusalem, but in Washington DC. An important component of the US administration has given Israel a sign: Start a massive political offensive in order to pressure the Congress, the media and American public opinion.   

Who are these people? And what is their interest? A wider explanation is needed.   

The most coveted resource on earth is the giant oil-field in the Caspian Sea region, that competes in scale with the riches of Saudi Arabia. In 2010 it is expected to yield 3.2 billion barrels of crude oil per day, in addition to 4850 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year.   

The United States is determined (a) to take possession of it, (b) to eliminate all potential competitors, (c) to safeguard the area politically and militarily, and (d) to clear a way from the oil-fields to the open sea.   

This campaign is being led by a group of oil people, to which the Bush family belongs. Together with the arms industry, this group got both George Bush senior and George Bush junior elected. The President is a simple person, his mental world is shallow and his pronouncements are primitive, bordering on caricature, like a second-rate Western. That is good for the masses. But his handlers are very sophisticated people indeed. It's they who guide the administration.   

The Twin Towers outrage made their job much easier. Osama Bin Laden did not comprehend that his actions serve American interests. If I were a believer in Conspiracy Theory, I would think that Bin Laden is an American agent. Not being one, I can only wonder at the coincidence.   

Bush's "War on Terrorism" constitutes a perfect pretext for the campaign planned by his handlers. Under the cover of this war, America has taken total control over the three small Muslim nations near the oil reserves: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The whole region is now completely under American political-military domination. All potential competitors - including Russia and China - have been pushed out.   

For a long time, the Americans have been arguing among themselves about the best route for piping this oil to the open sea. Routes that may be under Russian influence have been eliminated. The 19th century, deadly British-Russian competition, then called the "Great Game", is still going on between America and Russia.   

Until recently, the western route, leading to the Black Sea and Turkey, seemed most feasible, but the Americans did not like it very much, to say the least. Russia is much too near.   

The best route leads south, to the Indian Ocean. Iran was not even considered, since it is governed by Islamic fanatics. So there remained the alternative route: from the Caspian Sea, through Afghanistan and the western part of Pakistan (called Beluchistan), to the Indian Ocean. To this end, the Americans conducted, ever so quietly, negotiations with the Taliban regime. They bore no fruit. Then the "War on Terrorism" was started, the US conquered all of Afghanistan 

[CTRL] Oil, Sharon And The Axis Of Evil

[Jei]

-Caveat Lector-

A 
HREF=http://www.rense.com/general20/exx.htm;http://www.rense.com/general20/exx.htm/A



Oil, Sharon And The Axis Of Evil
2-12-2

Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is
the Great Satan.

It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new
discovery. As if by the order of a drill-sergeant, the whole Israeli phalanx
changed direction. All the politicians, all the generals, all the enlisted
media, with the usual complement of professors-for-hire, - all of them
discovered overnight that Iran is the immediate, real and terrible danger.

By wondrous coincidence, at exactly the same moment a ship was captured that,
allegedly, carried Iranian arms to Arafat. And in Washington Shimon Peres, a
man for all seasons and the servant of all masters, accosted every passing
diplomat and told him stories about thousands of Iranian missiles that have
been given to the Hizbullah. Yes, yes, Hizbullah (included by President Bush
in the list of terrorist organizations) is receiving horrible arms from
Iran (included by President Bush in the Axis of Evil) in order to threaten
Israel, the darling of the Congress.

Does this sound mad? Not at all. There is method in this madness.

On the face of it, the matter is easy to explain. America is still in a state
of fury after the Twin-Towers outrage. It has won a amazing victory in
Afghanistan, hardly sacrificing a single American soldier. Now it stands,
furious and drunk with victory, and does not know who to attack next. Iraq?
North Korea? Somalia? The Sudan?

President Bush cannot stop now, because such an immense concentration of
might cannot be laid off. The more so, as Bin-Laden has not been killed. The
economic situation has deteriorated, a giant scandal (Enron) is rocki ng
Washington. The American public should not be left to ponder on this.

So here comes the Israeli leadership and shouts from the roof-tops: Iran is
the enemy! Iran must be attacked!

Who has made that decision? When? How? And most importantly - Where? Clearly
not in Jerusalem, but in Washington DC. An important component of the US
administration has given Israel a sign: Start a massive political offensive
in order to pressure the Congress, the media and American public opinion.

Who are these people? And what is their interest? A wider explanation is
needed.

The most coveted resource on earth is the giant oil-field in the Caspian Sea
region, that competes in scale with the riches of Saudi Arabia. In 2010 it is
expected to yield 3.2 billion barrels of crude oil per day, in addition to
4850 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year.

The United States is determined (a) to take possession of it, (b) to
eliminate all potential competitors, (c) to safeguard the area politically
and militarily, and (d) to clear a way from the oil-fields to the open sea.

This campaign is being led by a group of oil people, to which the Bush family
belongs. Together with the arms industry, this group got both George Bush
senior and George Bush junior elected. The President is a simple person, his
mental world is shallow and his pronouncements are primitive, bordering on
caricature, like a second-rate Western. That is good for the masses. But his
handlers are very sophisticated people indeed. It's they who guide the
administration.

The Twin Towers outrage made their job much easier. Osama Bin Laden did not
comprehend that his actions serve American interests. If I were a believer in
Conspiracy Theory, I would think that Bin Laden is an American agent. Not
being one, I can only wonder at the coincidence.

Bush's War on Terrorism constitutes a perfect pretext for the campaign
planned by his handlers. Under the cover of this war, America has taken total
control over the three small Muslim nations near the oil reserves:
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The whole region is now completely
under American political-military domination. All potential competitors -
including Russia and China - have been pushed out.

For a long time, the Americans have been arguing among themselves about the
best route for piping this oil to the open sea. Routes that may be under
Russian influence have been eliminated. The 19th century, deadly
British-Russian competition, then called the Great Game, is still going on
between America and Russia.

Until recently, the western route, leading to the Black Sea and Turkey,
seemed most feasible, but the Americans did not like it very much, to say the
least. Russia is much too near.

The best route leads south, to the Indian Ocean. Iran was not even
considered, since it is governed by Islamic fanatics. So there remained the
alternative route: from the Caspian Sea, through Afghanistan and the western
part of Pakistan (called Beluchistan), to the Indian Ocean. To this end, the
Americans conducted, ever so quietly, negotiations with the Taliban regime.
They bore no fruit. Then the War on Terrorism was started, the US conquered
all of 

[CTRL] Oil Through Turkey

[Euphorian]

-Caveat Lector-

For about four years, I have been casually following the Caspian
oil story and now it seems that one of the least likely routes is not
the most likely.  For future reference, look out for Turkey to
identify the Kurds as something like terrorists and the pressure on
them will increase DRAMATICALLY.  Incursions (more) to follow into
Syria and Iraq will follow, to tame the Ways of the Kurd.  For a neat
map of the area and proposed pipeline routes, go here:
http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/maps/IMG/arton2005.jpg
AER


From
http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/01_52/b3763127.htm?
mainwindow
}}}Begin
DECEMBER 24, 2001

INTERNATIONAL -- THE CONFLICT
Opening the Caspian Oil Tap
A pipeline long sought by the U.S. looks set to win approval

It's one of the world's great geopolitical fault lines. Since the
collapse of the Soviet Union a decade ago, the Caspian Sea has been a
jousting zone for cold war victor America and a humbled-but-still-
potent Russia. Their dueling has fueled a regional rivalry between
the oil-rich, former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which has
realigned itself as an ally of the U.S. and Turkey, and Iran--a major
purchaser of weapons from Russia.

But now, for the first time, there are signs that tension is easing
in this zone of confrontation. That's important, since the Caspian--
bordered by Russia, Iran, and the former Soviet republics of
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan--holds an estimated 110
billion barrels of oil. Indeed, the Caspian's reserves rival those of
Iraq, whose deposits of 113 billion barrels rank second in the world
only to OPEC leader Saudi Arabia's 262 billion barrels.

SHUT OUT. The most important changes are in Moscow's policy. After
years of resistance, the Russian government looks ready to give the
green light to a key oil pipeline that has long been championed by
the U.S. Once it is finished in 2005, the 1,750-kilometer-long
pipeline is expected to carry up to 1 million barrels of oil per day
from the Azeri port of Baku to Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
Russia has opposed the pipeline, whose prime developers are oil giant
BP and the governments of Azerbaijan and Turkey, because it skirts
Russian soil, shutting Moscow out of transit fees and other revenues.
The Kremlin has also accused the U.S. of trying to keep the Caspian a
solely Western preserve.

But in a sudden reversal, the Kremlin in late November invited
executives from BP to make their case for the Baku-Ceyhan route. That
gesture follows other moves by Russian President Vladimir V. Putin to
find common cause with the Bush Administration on issues such as
nuclear arms reduction since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Although Moscow is still weighing its decision, both BP PLC and
Russian oilmen are optimistic the Kremlin will endorse the Baku-
Ceyhan project.

If Moscow gives the nod, companies such as Lukoil, the country's
largest oil producer, would be freed up to invest in the pipeline--
locking in access and preferential tariffs for shipping their own
oil. Both Lukoil and Russia's No. 2 oil producer, Yukos, have
expressed interest in buying minority stakes in the pipeline. We
hope Russian companies [will] put a foot forward, says BP CEO John
Browne. Russian backing would be the ultimate validation of the
[pipeline] project, notes Steven Dashevsky, oil analyst at Aton
Capital Group in Moscow.

This is a key deal for the West, and the Bush Administration has been
pushing it strongly. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham recently
visited Moscow to discuss the pipeline and other energy issues. The
main advantage of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, proponents argue, is that
it avoids the accident- prone Bosphorus Straits, the choke point
between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. The only other pipeline
from the region, which opened in November, stretches from Kazakhstan
to the Russian port of Novorossisk on the Black Sea, and requires
companies to ship oil on tankers through the Bosphorus to the
Mediterranean.

DASHED HOPES. Along the Baku-Ceyhan route, oil producers will have a second, secure 
option. That would help ease the West's dependence on OPEC. By 2010, the Caspian could 
represent 3% of global oil output and 5% of non-OP
EC oil production, says Moscow brokerage Renaissance Capital. Although the pipeline 
will cost $2.8 billion, BP has concluded the project is cost-effective. The company is 
now soliciting bids for the contract to install th
e pipeline.

Moscow's backing of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline also would send a strong political 
message to Iran and Central Asian countries that Russia broadly shares American goals 
in the region. That's likely to dash Tehran's hope for
yet another pipeline stretching from Kazakhstan through Iran to the Persian Gulf. U.S. 
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell signaled American opposition to an Iran pipeline in 
an early December visit to Kazakhstan. Meanwhil
e, Moscow, as a major arms supplier to Iran, is well positioned to 

[CTRL] Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan

[eric stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

Oil company adviser named US representative to Afghanistan
By Patrick Martin
3 January 2002

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/oil-j03.shtml

President Bush has appointed a former aide to the American oil
company Unocal, Afghan-born Zalmay Khalilzad, as special envoy to
Afghanistan. The nomination was announced December 31, nine days
after the US-backed interim government of Hamid Karzai took office
in Kabul.

The nomination underscores the real economic and financial
interests at stake in the US military intervention in Central Asia.
Khalilzad is intimately involved in the long-running US efforts to
obtain direct access to the oil and gas resources of the region,
largely unexploited but believed to be the second largest in the
world after the Persian Gulf.

As an adviser for Unocal, Khalilzad drew up a risk analysis of a
proposed gas pipeline from the former Soviet republic of
Turkmenistan across Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Indian Ocean.
He participated in talks between the oil company and Taliban
officials in 1997, which were aimed at implementing a 1995
agreement to build the pipeline across western Afghanistan.

Unocal was the lead company in the formation of the Centgas
consortium, whose purpose was to bring to market natural gas from
the Dauletabad Field in southeastern Turkmenistan, one of the
world’s largest. The $2 billion project involved a 48-inch diameter
pipeline from the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan border, passing near the
cities of Herat and Kandahar, crossing into Pakistan near Quetta
and linking with existing pipelines at Multan. An additional $600
million extension to India was also under consideration.

Khalilzad also lobbied publicly for a more sympathetic US
government policy towards the Taliban. Four years ago, in an op-ed
article in the Washington Post, he defended the Taliban regime
against accusations that it was a sponsor of terrorism, writing,
“The Taliban does not practice the anti-U.S. style of
fundamentalism practiced by Iran.”

“We should ... be willing to offer recognition and humanitarian
assistance and to promote international economic reconstruction,”
he declared. “It is time for the United States to reengage” the
Afghan regime. This “reengagement” would, of course, have been
enormously profitable to Unocal, which was otherwise unable to
bring gas and oil to market from landlocked Turkmenistan.

Khalilzad only shifted his position on the Taliban after the
Clinton administration fired cruise missiles at targets in
Afghanistan in August 1998, claiming that terrorists under the
direction of Afghan-based Osama bin Laden were responsible for
bombing US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. One day after the
attack, Unocal put Centgas on hold. Two months later it abandoned
all plans for a trans-Afghan pipeline. The oil interests began to
look towards a post-Taliban Afghanistan, and so did their
representatives in the US national security establishment.


Liasion to Islamic guerrillas

Born in Mazar-e Sharif in 1951, Khalilzad hails from the old ruling
elite of Afghanistan. His father was an aide to King Zahir Shah,
who ruled the country until 1973. Khalilzad was a graduate student
at the University of Chicago, an intellectual center for the
American right-wing, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in
1979.

Khalilzad became an American citizen, while serving as a key link
between US imperialism and the Islamic fundamentalist mujahedin
fighting the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul—the milieu out of which
both the Taliban and bin Laden’s Al Qaeda group arose. He was a
special adviser to the State Department during the Reagan
administration, lobbying successfully for accelerated US military
aid to the mujahedin, including hand-held Stinger anti-aircraft
missiles which played a key role in the war. He later became
undersecretary of defense in the administration of Bush’s father,
during the US war against Iraq, then went to the Rand Corporation,
a top US military think tank.

After Bush was installed as president by a 5-4 vote of the US
Supreme Court, Khalilzad headed the Bush-Cheney transition team for
the Defense Department and advised incoming Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld. Significantly, however, he was not named to a
subcabinet position, which would have required Senate confirmation
and might have provoked uncomfortable questions about his role as
an oil company adviser in Central Asia and intermediary with the
Taliban. Instead, he was named to the National Security Council,
where no confirmation vote was needed.

At the NSC Khalilzad reports to Condoleeza Rice, the national
security adviser, who also served as an oil company consultant on
Central Asia. After serving in the first Bush administration from
1989 to 1992, Rice was placed on the board of directors of Chevron
Corporation and served as its principal expert on Kazakhstan, where
Chevron holds the largest concession of any of the international
oil companies. The oil industry connections of 

[CTRL] Oil Prices Rise as OPEC Cuts Output

[Bill Richer]

-Caveat Lector-

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/28/193931.shtml

Maybe OPEC should be next on out terrorist list!  For Extortion!  --  Bill

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Oil Prices Rise as OPEC Cuts Output
NewsMax.com Wires
Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001
CAIRO - Crude oil prices rose Friday after OPEC ministers cut production by
1.5 million barrels a day following similar output cuts by non-OPEC
countries.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers announced the cuts,
effective Tuesday, in a bid to shore up weakening oil prices.

Industry analysts said gasoline and fuel prices would rise across the world,
hitting economic growth, if the cuts caused sustained increases in crude oil
prices.

The decision by 10 of the 11 OPEC member countries, excluding Iraq, which is
under U.N. sanctions, followed a successful lobbying of non-OPEC producers
worldwide.

Five non-OPEC producers - Mexico, Russia, Norway, Angola and Oman - earlier
indicated they would be cutting production.

Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said the cuts would be in force for
the first half of 2002, but OPEC sources said the Vienna-based group would
likely review the market during the first quarter.

An OPEC source told United Press International the group would likely
contemplate further production if the latest reduction, the fourth since
February, failed to sustain prices above $20 per barrel.

Russia's position is still uncertain, said the source, citing industry
speculation that Moscow might decide not to stick to its earlier decision to
cut output, both to improve its cash flow and to appease the West during its
current diplomatic drive to play a more active role in NATO.

OPEC Secretary General Ali Rodriguez, Venezuela's oil minister, said the
group planned to hold a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mihkail Kasyanov
in January.

The OPEC decision had the immediate impact of pushing the benchmark North Sea
Brent prices upward. Brent crude oil futures for February rose 35 cents on
the market's opening to $20.78.

Industry sources said higher pump prices could hit fragile economies and
depress demand while there seemed little chance of a recovery in demand for
aviation fuel. Global air travel is still depressed in the aftermath of the
Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.

As widely expected, before the meeting opened OPEC's price hawks lobbied
the ministers for a sharper cut. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh
indicated Iran would have liked to have the group's output reduced by up to 2
million barrels a day.

The latest cuts mean that OPEC crude oil exports are down by 5 million
barrels a day in the past year. Non-OPEC cuts are expected to remove about
462,500 barrels a day of crude oil from the market.




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From
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm

Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan
Pipeline

The Principal Players: Unocal | Bridas (Bridas has since merged with
BP Amoco Argentina)

1992

January
Gas exploration rights for Yashlar block in eastern Turkmenistan
awarded to Argentine firm; Bridas Production profits to be split 50-
50 between Bridas and Turkmenistan government.

1993

February
Bridas awarded Keimir Oil and Gas Block in western Turkmenistan. 75-
25 split in profits, in favor of Bridas.

March
President Niyazov of Turkmenistan hires Alexander Haig (former U.S.
National Security Adviser) to lobby for increased U.S. investment in
Turkmenistan. and for a softening of position on pipelines through
Iran.


1994

September
Bridas prevented from exporting oil from Keimir Block.

November
Working group established to study gas pipeline routes. Taliban
capture Kandahar.


1995

January
Keimir Block deal is renegotiated. Bridas's share of profits reduced
to 65 percent. Oil exports allowed.

March
Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Turkmen president
Niyazov conduct feasibility study of Afghan pipeline.

April
Turkmenistan and Iran to build first 180 miles of proposed pipeline
via Iran to Turkey. United States oppose financing pipeline through
Iran. Turkmen officials in Texas at invitation of Bridas. While
there, they also meet meet Unocal officials.

August
Oil and gas discovered by Bridas at Yashlar. Bridas representatives
meet Taliban for first time.

October
President Niyazov signs agreement in New York with Unocal/Delta.

December
Ban on Bridas's oil exports from Keimir imposed by Turkmenistan for
second time.


1996

February
Agreement between Afghan government and Bridas signed. Suit filed by
Bridas in Texas against Unocal/Delta for interference in its business
in Turkmenistan.

March
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Tom Simmons, urges Bhutto to give
exclusive rights to Unocal. Bhutto offended and demands apology.

May
Turkmenisatn, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan agree that
Turkmenistan should name the consortium to build the pipeline.
Opening of 100-mile railway route linking Turkmenistan and Iran.

August
Unocal/Delta and Turkmenistan's Turkmenrosgaz along with Russia's
Gazprom enter into agreement for pipeline project.

Septmeber
Unocal says it will give aid to to Afghan warlords once they agree to
form a council to supervise the project. Taliban take Kabul.

October
Unocal expresses suport for Taliban takover, saying it makes pipeline
project easier. Unocal later says it was misquoted.

November
Bridas signs agreement with Taliban and Gen. Dostum to build
pipeline.

December
Turkey to buy Turkmen gas through Iran.


1997

January
Turkmenistan signs exploration agreement with Mobil and Monument Oil.
U.N. Under Secretary General Akashi criticizes oil companies and
warlords for pipeline projects.

February
Taliban in Washington to seek recognition. Taliban meet with Unocal.
Taliban travel to Argentina as guests of Bridas. Upon return, Taliban
meet with Saudi Intelligence chief, Prince Turki al-Faysal, in
Jeddah.

March
Unocal sets up office in Kandahar; Bridas does likewise in Kabul.

April
Taliban announce criteria for awarding contract: The company that
starts work first wins.


Unocal President John Imle baffled by statement.

June
Unocal says peace is necessary for construction of pipeline,
otherwise the project could take years. Bridas officials meet Taliban
and say that they are interested in beginning work in any kind of
security situation.

July
Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Unocal sign new contract extending
Unocal's deadline by one year to start project by December 1998. In a
policy shift, United Staes says it will not object to Turkmenisatn-
Turkey pipeline through Iran.

August
Shell's Alan Parsley meets Niyazov and promises help on Turkmenistan-
Turkey pipeline. Taliban say Bridas offer better terms and expect to
enter into agreement with them.

September
Turkmenistan opens tenders for oil companies to take up new
concessions along the Caspian. Niyazov, 57, has heart operation in
Munich—concern grows about his health, and who would replace him
should he die. Bridas sells 60 percent of the company's stakes in
Latin America to Amoco. The two agree to form a new company to run
operations jointly. Taliban delegation in Argentina to discuss
pipeline deal with Bridas.

October
Taliban delegation visits Ashkhbad and agrees to set up tripartite
commission with Pakistan and Turkmenistan to explore Unocal pipeline
project. Centgas Pipeline Ltd. formed in Ashkhabad: Unocal owns 46.5
percent, Delta Oil owns 15 percent, Turkmenistan's national gas
company owns 7 percent, Itochu Oil owns 6.5 percent, Inpex owns 6.5
percent, Crescent Group owns 3.5 percent, Hyundai Engineering owns 5
percent. Taliban undecided which consortium to join.

November
Taliban in United States to visit Unocal and U.S. State Department

[CTRL] Oil War, or Just a Coincidence?

[Steve]

-Caveat Lector-

   TESTIMONY

 BY

  JOHN J. MARESCA

   VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

UNOCAL CORPORATION

 TO

 HOUSE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

  FEBRUARY 12, 1998

  WASHINGTON, D.C.

http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm

Mr. Chairman, I am John Maresca, Vice President, International Relations, of
Unocal Corporation. Unocal is one of the world's leading energy resource
and project development companies. Our activities are focused on three
major regions -- Asia, Latin America and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. In Asia and
the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, we are a major oil and gas producer. I appreciate
your invitation to speak here today. I believe these hearings are important
and timely, and I congratulate you for focusing on Central Asia oil and gas
reserves and the role they play in shaping U.S. policy.

Today we would like to focus on three issues concerning this region, its
resources and U.S. policy:

The need for multiple pipeline routes for Central Asian oil and gas.

The need for U.S. support for international and regional efforts to achieve
balanced and lasting political settlements within Russia, other newly
independent states and in Afghanistan.

The need for structured assistance to encourage economic reforms and the
development of appropriate investment climates in the region. In this regard,
we specifically support repeal or removal of Section 907 of the Freedom
Support Act.

For more than 2,000 years, Central Asia has been a meeting ground
between Europe and Asia, the site of ancient east-west trade routes
collectively called the Silk Road and, at various points in history, a cradle of
scholarship, culture and power. It is also a region of truly enormous natural
resources, which are revitalizing cross-border trade, creating positive
political interaction and stimulating regional cooperation. These resources
have the potential to recharge the economies of neighboring countries and
put entire regions on the road to prosperity.

About 100 years ago, the international oil industry was born in the
Caspian/Central Asian region with the discovery of oil. In the intervening
years, under Soviet rule, the existence

of the region's oil and gas resources was generally known, but only partially
or poorly developed.

As we near the end of the 20th century, history brings us full circle. With
political barriers falling, Central Asia and the Caspian are once again
attracting people from around the globe who are seeking ways to develop
and deliver its bountiful energy resources to the markets of the world.

The Caspian region contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves,
much of them located in the Caspian Sea basin itself. Proven natural gas
reserves within Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan equal
more than 236 trillion cubic feet. The region's total oil reserves may reach
more than 60 billion barrels of oil -- enough to service Europe's oil needs for
11 years. Some estimates are as high as 200 billion barrels. In 1995, the
region was producing only 870,000 barrels per day (44 million tons per year
[Mt/y]).

By 2010, Western companies could increase production to about 4.5 million
barrels a day (Mb/d) -- an increase of more than 500 percent in only 15
years. If this occurs, the region would represent about five percent of the
world's total oil production, and almost 20 percent of oil produced among non-
OPEC countries.

One major problem has yet to be resolved: how to get the region's vast
energy resources to the markets where they are needed. There are few, if
any, other areas of the world where there can be such a dramatic increase in
the supply of oil and gas to the world market. The solution seems simple:
build a new Silk Road. Implementing this solution, however, is far from
simple. The risks are high, but so are the rewards.

Finding and Building Routes to World Markets

One of the main problems is that Central Asia is isolated. The region is
bounded on the north by the Arctic Circle, on the east and west by vast land
distances, and on the south by a series of natural obstacles -- mountains and
seas -- as well as political obstacles, such as conflict zones or sanctioned
countries.

This means that the area's natural resources are landlocked, both
geographically and politically. Each of the countries in the Caucasus and
Central Asia faces difficult political challenges. Some have unsettled wars or
latent conflicts. Others have evolving systems where the laws -- and even the
courts -- are dynamic and changing. Business 

[CTRL] Oil War: Next Phase(s)

[Euphorian]

-Caveat Lector-

From
http://www.sierratimes.com/pf.php

}}}Begin
What's  Next: Iraq and Saudi Arabia
War Analysis by Ken Martin 11.28.01
The war  in Afghanistan has progressed so rapidly it is foolhardy to
try to make predictions. Events on the ground have made fools of not
only the leftists  and smart-alecks who forever predict disaster, but
even a few of us on  the clear-eyed, right-hearted side of the
spectrum.
They say  that generals always prepare to fight the last war. It is
clear that our present crop of generals have done considerably better
than that, but  I will confess to being flummoxed when I saw no Gulf
War-style buildup  in advance of the beginning of ground operations.
On the other hand, I  feel some satisfaction in having never mouthed
the cliche that has been  printed in a thousand columns and repeated
in a thousand chat shows, that  is, the somber reminder that no
foreign army has ever defeated the Afghans  in war. It never occurred
to anyone that we weren't planning to defeat  them, but rather work
with the Afghans themselves to take back their own  country. We
became the Afghan Air Force, and our guys on the ground fought

  alongside the Afghans to help them achieve their own goals. I
believe this style of fighting gives us an idea of what to expect as
the war  on terrorism shifts its focus to other venues.
Iraq
We have  been dropping hints that, maybe, our next port of call may
be Somalia,  or Sudan, or some other troublesome backwater. But I
believe that Saddam  Hussein believes he is next on our to-do list,
and I also  believe he is right.
Prior to  the buildup for the Afghan War, I would have said that the
last thing  we wanted to do was to revisit the Gulf War. The idea of
another buildup  to go after the million-man Iraqi army was
politically unthinkable. Even  in the wake of 9/11, our allies have
been warning us not to go there.
But what  if we held a war on terrorism and didn't invite Saddam?
That  really would be unthinkable. We left the Iraqi army intact at
the end  of the Gulf War, in order to hold back the ayatollahs in
Iran, not realizing  that Saddam himself would be able to thrive in
defeat. Considering the  potential threat that the Iranians posed at
that time, this may well have  been a smart decision, but it is a
smart decision that has cost us dearly  in the decade since.
The world  has evolved since then. Iran has moved on, and no one
fears them anymore.  In the new environment, Saddam is way more
trouble than he is worth, and  a nuclear-tipped Saddam, with
intelligence operatives on the ground inside  the US, is something
that can not be allowed to stand, certainly not in  the aftermath of
9/11.
But will  defeating Saddam require another Gulf War buildup? I
believe not.
The Gulf  War, and the present Afghan war, show very well the
capabilities of air  power against ground forces on open ground. But
air power needs to be followed up by ground forces who will occupy
that ground. Ten years ago  the US Armor did that duty in Kuwait;
today in Afghanistan, Northern Alliance  troops are fulfilling the
same function.
Where  is our Northern Alliance in Iraq?
The Kurds  come to mind. They are semi-independent, thanks to our no-
fly zone  air patrols, and anxious to win independence. But that
very desire for independence makes them problematical as partners.
Fully 1/3 of Turkey  is Kurdish, and an independent Kurdistan next
door would almost certainly  lead to the dissolution of Turkey, and
they will not sit still for this. Since anything we do in Iraq will
rely on Turkish support, I believe we  will steer clear of giving too
much encouragement to the Kurds.
But they  will have an important role. They are armed, they control
an important  piece of territory, and we have access to them. But
everyone will studiously  avoid saying anything about independence.
Secondly,  armed groups among the southern Shi'ites have already been
active, and  have managed a number of shootouts with government
forces, supposedly  even killing one of Saddam's generals. They may
well have a role. While  publicly there may be some tut-tutting about
their ties to Iran, the reality  is that we, and Iran, have already
moved way past our old animosity. No  one says so publicly, though,
so as not to awaken any sleeping dinosaurs.

But the  most likely force presently available, trained and armed and
ready to  take on Saddam, is the Iraqi Army itself.
Saddam has  been forced time and again to resort to mass executions
of Army officers,  due to repeated coup conspiracies, real or
imagined. Regular Army units  are not allowed to move out of the
district where they are stationed, not allowed to move toward Baghdad
under pain of death; Republican Guard units are always placed between
Army units and the capital.
Our most  likely strategy will be to drive a wedge between the
Republican Guard and the Army. We attempted this before, a few years
ago, launching a heavy  bombing campaign against the Guard while

Re: [CTRL] Oil War: Next Phase(s)

[Nakano Nakamura]

-Caveat Lector-

--- Euphorian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It never occurred to anyone that we weren't planning
to defeat  them, but rather work with the Afghans
themselves to take back their own  country. We
became the Afghan Air Force, and our guys on the
ground fought   alongside the Afghans to help them
achieve their own goals. I believe this style of
fighting gives us an idea of what to expect as
the war  on terrorism shifts its focus to other
venues.
___
Nakano comments:
This style of fighting is what to expect from the
U.S. and here's why.   The U.S. government did learn
a huge lesson in Vietnam.  Americans get very unhappy
and won't support a war when body bags get shipped
back to the states in large numbers.
The solution?
Pay and coerce others to fight for us!
This is exactly what's happening in Afghanistan.
The news today reported the very first U.S. fatality
and this was a guy in the CIAnot a soldier.
So far as we know, the U.S. Military has not had
a single fatality.
Great strategy!
No body bags coming home!
So the American People will support America's New
War
and when Bush makes war on Iraq and others, Americans
will continue to give him 90 percent approval ratings
so long as no body bags are arriving back here.
It's so cleansort of like a movie or a TV show
where the blood and death arn't real.
But of course it is realit's just that it
isn't Americans bleeding and dyingyet!
 Nakano


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America's Dirty Afghan Secret: It's a War over Oil
By V K Shashikumar, New Delhi, November 21, 2001

Intelligence analysts Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie have
released an explosive book that claims the US' primary interest in the
Afghan War might be oil, not terrorism; the US president, they claim,
had obstructed investigation into the Taliban's terrorist activities.

A book written by two French intelligence analysts is certain to
embarrass President George W Bush and his administration. The book, Bin
Laden, La Verite Interdite (Bin Laden, the Forbidden Truth), released
recently, claims that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Deputy
Director John O'Neill resigned in July in protest over Bush's
obstruction of an investigation into Taliban's terrorist activities. The
authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, claim that Bush
resorted to this obstruction under the influence of the United States'
oil companies.

Bush stymied the intelligence agency's investigations on terrorism, even
as it bargained with the Taliban on handing over of Osama bin Laden in
exchange for political recognition and economic aid. The main obstacles
to investigate Islamic terrorism were US oil corporate interests, and
the role played by Saudi Arabia in it, O'Neill reportedly told the
authors. According to the Brisard and Dasquie, the main objective of the
US government in Afghanistan prior to Black Tuesday was aimed at
consolidating the Taliban regime, in order to obtain access to the oil
and gas reserves in Central Asia.

Prior to September 11, the US government had an extremely benevolent
understanding of the Taliban regime. The Taliban was perceived as a
source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction
of an oil pipeline across Central Asia from the rich oilfields in
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and
Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. This would have secured for the US
another huge captive and alternate oil resource centre. The oil and gas
reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush
government wanted to change all that.this rationale of energy security
changed into a military one, the authors claim

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,583254,00.html

Backyard terrorism

The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's
still at it

George Monbiot
Tuesday October 30, 2001
The Guardian

If any government sponsors the outlaws and killers of innocents, George
Bush announced on the day he began bombing Afghanistan, they have become
outlaws and murderers themselves. And they will take that lonely path at
their own peril. I'm glad he said any government, as there's one which,
though it has yet to be identified as a sponsor of terrorism, requires his
urgent attention.
For the past 55 years it has been running a terrorist training camp, whose
victims massively outnumber the people killed by the attack on New York, the
embassy bombings and the other atrocities laid, rightly or wrongly, at
al-Qaida's door. The camp is called the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation, or Whisc. It is based in Fort Benning, Georgia, and it
is funded by Mr Bush's government.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1124-03.htm

Published on Saturday, November 24, 2001 in the Independent/UK
Patriotism Slows Inquiries into Intelligence Failures
by David Usborne in New York


The political inquests into the failures of US intelligence agencies before
the 11 September attacks, which are certain to embarrass Republicans and
Democrats alike, are to go ahead. But do not tune in for a while yet.
Congressional leaders have told the White House that it need fear nothing at
least until the new year.

The reasons are partly procedural, but are mostly to do with patriotism. It
has been deemed a bad idea to start finger-pointing – at the CIA in
particular – when the country is at a crucial phase of the war in Afghanistan.



http://www.bcentral.com/articles/isyndicate/finance/3bfa2d9c.22ab.211.1.asp?co

brand=msn

New Federal Patriot Act Turns Retailers into Spies against Customers

By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Nov 20, 2001 2:18 AM

Nov. 18--Ordinary businesses, from bicycle shops to bookstores to bowling
alleys, are being pressed into service on the home front in the war on
terrorism.

Under the USA Patriot Act, signed into law by President Bush late last month,
they soon will be required to monitor their customers and report suspicious
transactions to the Treasury Department -- though most businesses may not be
aware of this.

Buried in the more than 300 pages of the new law is a provision that any
person engaged in a trade or business has to file a government report if a
customer spends $10,000 or more in cash. The threshold is cumulative and
applies to multiple purchases if they're somehow related -- three $4,000
pieces of furniture, for example, might trigger a filing.

[CTRL] Oil Wars- The Balkans

[William Shannon]

http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html



CHENEY AND BUSH 
WHEREVER YOU LOOK:
THE OIL WARS IN THE BALKANS 
"...a gang of multinational corporations (including BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal, Caterpillar, Halliburton/Brown  Root [Dick Cheney], and Mitsubishi) are using all the military, political, and economic tools at their disposal to destroy and recreate the infrastructure and economy of southeastern Europe in their own image". 


Oil Wars: The Balkans
by George Draffan
www.endgame.org

Wars are often blamed on political, ethnic, and religious animosities, but war is more often the inflamation of these conflicts -- and war is usually about resources: land, transport routes, and above all, resources. What's the most valuable resource in the modern world? Oil.

The 1995 Dayton Accords led to a major NATO military operation to "pacificy" Bosnia-Herzegovina. For the multinational corporations working alongside NATO, one of the most important rewards will be the construction of a trans-Balkan pipeline to bring oil from the Caspian Sea region to Europe. William Ramsay, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy, Sanctions And Commodities, claiming that that Caspian oil is "crucial to the world energy balance over the next 25 years," has revealed that "there already exists a kind of outline of a new Silk Road running through the Caucasus and beyond the Caspian. We think oil and gas pipelines, roads, railways and fiber optics can make this 21st century Silk Road a superhighway linking Europe and Central Asia." 

The European Union, the U.S. government, and a gang of multinational corporations (including BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal, Caterpillar, Halliburton/Brown  Root, and Mitsubishi) are using all the military, political, and economic tools at their disposal to destroy and recreate the infrastructure and economy of southeastern Europe in their own image. The conflicts of interest between government officials and corporate executives are blatant and revealing.
Recent NATO military action in Yugoslavia is part of a long strategic (economic) battle to control the Balkans. The current focus is to secure oil and gas pipeline routes from the oilfields of the Caspian Sea to the consumers of Europe. Multinational oil corporations from the U.S., Britain and other European countries, and Russia are signing multibillion-dollar contracts with Kazakhstan,

"The oil from this region played a major strategic role during this century's two world wars. Protecting the oilfields of the Caucasus was an Allied priority. During the second world war, oil from the Caucasus was an essential target of Hitler's expansionist policies. Following the 1939 German-Soviet pact, Soviet oil from the Caucasus accounted for a third of Germany's imports. In 1942, Germany repeatedly conducted military campaigns to gain control over the region's natural resources. Towards the end of the 19th century, cut-throat competition had already built up between the oil companies. Russia, fearing loss of control over its petroleum markets, sabotaged an agreement in 1895 between American Standard Oil, the Rothschilds and Nobels. Competition in the region was increasingly fuelled by ethnic conflict, administrative corruption and underdeveloped legal and trade practices. Natural resources have [again] become a major issue in the Caucasus and central Asia in recent years. Specialists reckon that the area might contain the world's third largest oil and natural gas reserves after the Gulf region and Siberia. Oil resources are estimated at 200 billion barrels. The most extensive fields have been located in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Other lesser reserves and oil exploitation sites are to be found in Georgia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia... The fall of the Soviet empire and its concomitant loss of influence in the region has turned the latter into a grey area where regional powers are pitted against one another, each seeking to ensure that their interests prevail within the new successor republics to the former USSR. These countries are seeking a balance between the interests of the regional power brokers and their own national interests and are hoping that their natural resources will offer them the means of developing their economies, thus generating the stability that is needed within the region. One of the major problems of these landlocked states is oil transport, for which they are dependent on cooperation with their neighbours. This is leading to the formation at regional and international levels of a series of alliances and counter alliances, the aim of which is to allow the countries involved to gain access to or influence over some of the world's most important natural reserves."

"Two questions loom over the region's future: Who owns the bonanza? Who will transport it to market? The answers will help shape the global economy in the next century and the international order that governs it. The terms are now being set in some of the most intense 

Re: [CTRL] Oil Wars- The Balkans

[Agent Smiley]

-Caveat Lector-

nato moves through the balkans...through iraq...two
fronts moving in on the caspian...yeah...one needs an
attention span of more than a few days to notice it...

--- William Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 A

HREF=http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html;http://www.davidicke.com/icke/index1c.html/A



 CHENEY AND BUSH
 WHEREVER YOU LOOK:
 THE OIL WARS IN THE BALKANS
 ...a gang of multinational corporations (including
 BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal,
 Caterpillar, Halliburton/Brown  Root [Dick Cheney],
 and Mitsubishi) are
 using all the military, political, and economic
 tools at their disposal to
 destroy and recreate the infrastructure and economy
 of southeastern Europe in
 their own image.


 Oil Wars: The Balkans
 by George Draffan
 www.endgame.org

 Wars are often blamed on political, ethnic, and
 religious animosities, but
 war is more often the inflamation of these conflicts
 -- and war is usually
 about resources: land, transport routes, and above
 all, resources. What's the
 most valuable resource in the modern world? Oil.

 The 1995 Dayton Accords led to a major NATO military
 operation to pacificy
 Bosnia-Herzegovina. For the multinational
 corporations working alongside
 NATO, one of the most important rewards will be the
 construction of a
 trans-Balkan pipeline to bring oil from the Caspian
 Sea region to Europe.
 William Ramsay, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
 State for Energy,
 Sanctions And Commodities, claiming that that
 Caspian oil is crucial to the
 world energy balance over the next 25 years, has
 revealed that there
 already exists a kind of outline of a new Silk Road
 running through the
 Caucasus and beyond the Caspian. We think oil and
 gas pipelines, roads,
 railways and fiber optics can make this 21st century
 Silk Road a superhighway
 linking Europe and Central Asia.

 The European Union, the U.S. government, and a gang
 of multinational
 corporations (including BP, Amoco, Exxon, Unocal,
 Caterpillar,
 Halliburton/Brown  Root, and Mitsubishi) are using
 all the military,
 political, and economic tools at their disposal to
 destroy and recreate the
 infrastructure and economy of southeastern Europe in
 their own image. The
 conflicts of interest between government officials
 and corporate executives
 are blatant and revealing.
 Recent NATO military action in Yugoslavia is part of
 a long strategic
 (economic) battle to control the Balkans. The
 current focus is to secure oil
 and gas pipeline routes from the oilfields of the
 Caspian Sea to the
 consumers of Europe. Multinational oil corporations
 from the U.S., Britain
 and other European countries, and Russia are signing
 multibillion-dollar
 contracts with Kazakhstan,

 The oil from this region played a major strategic
 role during this century's
 two world wars. Protecting the oilfields of the
 Caucasus was an Allied
 priority. During the second world war, oil from the
 Caucasus was an essential
 target of Hitler's expansionist policies. Following
 the 1939 German-Soviet
 pact, Soviet oil from the Caucasus accounted for a
 third of Germany's
 imports. In 1942, Germany repeatedly conducted
 military campaigns to gain
 control over the region's natural resources. Towards
 the end of the 19th
 century, cut-throat competition had already built up
 between the oil
 companies. Russia, fearing loss of control over its
 petroleum markets,
 sabotaged an agreement in 1895 between American
 Standard Oil, the Rothschilds
 and Nobels. Competition in the region was
 increasingly fuelled by ethnic
 conflict, administrative corruption and
 underdeveloped legal and trade
 practices. Natural resources have [again] become a
 major issue in the
 Caucasus and central Asia in recent years.
 Specialists reckon that the area
 might contain the world's third largest oil and
 natural gas reserves after
 the Gulf region and Siberia. Oil resources are
 estimated at 200 billion
 barrels. The most extensive fields have been located
 in Kazakhstan and
 Azerbaijan. Other lesser reserves and oil
 exploitation sites are to be found
 in Georgia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia...
 The fall of the Soviet
 empire and its concomitant loss of influence in the
 region has turned the
 latter into a grey area where regional powers are
 pitted against one another,
 each seeking to ensure that their interests prevail
 within the new successor
 republics to the former USSR. These countries are
 seeking a balance between
 the interests of the regional power brokers and
 their own national interests
 and are hoping that their natural resources will
 offer them the means of
 developing their economies, thus generating the
 stability that is needed
 within the region. One of the major problems of
 these landlocked states is
 oil transport, for which they are dependent on
 cooperation with their
 neighbours. This is leading to the formation at
 regional and international
 levels of a series of alliances and counter
 alliances, the aim of which is 

[CTRL] Oil Drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge - Who Owns the Mineral Rights?

[tribalzidane]

-Caveat Lector-

Who owns the land in the National Wildlife Refuge?  More specifically, who
owns the mineral rights (royalties) on the land?  Whoever this person (or
corporation (or government)) is stands to make tons of money when oil is
produced.  Any knowledge on this?  Keep in mind that it's possible for one
person to own the land, while another person owns the stuff that's
underneath, like natural gas, oil and whatnot.  The government might own the
land, but an individual or corporation might own the rights to the minerals
underneath.

Damaeus

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Re: [CTRL] Oil Drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge - Who Owns the Mineral Rights?

[Aleisha Saba]

-Caveat Lector-

Oh by the way - law of real estate you own everything above, on, and
below the land on which you live or is owned by federal government,
which is we the people land.

Often when you buy a house, you will note in deed that the guy who has
your mortgage or the one who sold the land or house, reserves the
mineral rights.but when this land is free and clear, presume mineral
rights would then revert to owner free and clear.   Period.

When you signed the mortage to buy the land or house, if you do not read
the papers entirely, you find you give these rights away until property
is free and clear.   Always read the fine print.

My house is now paid for, and if I hit oil or strike gold, it is
MINE...

Saba

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Re: [CTRL] Oil Drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge - Who Owns the Mineral Rights?

[Linda Minor]

-Caveat Lector-

Below is a website containing an article about the legal aspects of the
wildlife refuge legislation.  Basically, the statute sets the framework for
what the government is allowed to do.  The statute can be amended by new
legislation, which is subject to interpretation by the courts.  However,
each transaction whereby land is acquired is a separate one, and what is
owned--whether minerals or other rights--is determined by the legal
documents pertinent to that piece of land.  You must examine the deed as
recorded in the county where the land is located.  If the land was acquired
by condemnation (eminent domain), then these details are set out in the
lawsuit on file in the applicable court.


http://www.lib.ttu.edu/playa/rights/r994-02.htm

Copyright (c) 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
The Harvard Environmental Law Review
ARTICLE: THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND PROSPECT

RICHARD J. FINK *

...Congress passed the principal statutes governing the NWRS in the early
and mid-1960s, but, unlike the statutes governing other  [*8]  federal lands
systems, has not revised them since the emergence of the modern
environmental movement. On an administrative level, dedicated professionals
in the FWS directly manage the refuges and they have taken the initiative to
involve both experts and the public in planning for the refuge system. Part
IV argues that in practice the agency suffers from inadequate funding,
changes of direction under new administrations, and political interference.
Extensive non-wildlife economic and public uses of the refuges adversely
affect the NWRS. Often, the FWS does not have the legal authority to take
steps necessary to protect wildlife. As a result, the effectiveness of the
refuge system in achieving its goals has been compromised.

...n69 In Swan Lake Hunting Club v. United States, 381 F.2d 238 (5th Cir.
1967), a federal appellate court held that the Act's authority to purchase
or rent  lands included acquisition by condemnation. The Supreme Court has
stated that acquisitions under the Act arise from and depend upon a federal
regulatory program, and therefore it declined to follow the customary
approach of following state law in transactions to which the United States
is a party. See United States v. Little Lake Misere Land Co., 412 U.S. 580
(1972).





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Date: Saturday, May 19, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Oil Drilling in the National Wildlife Refuge - Who Owns the
Mineral Rights?


-Caveat Lector-

Who owns the land in the National Wildlife Refuge?  More specifically, who
owns the mineral rights (royalties) on the land?  Whoever this person (or
corporation (or government)) is stands to make tons of money when oil is
produced.  Any knowledge on this?  Keep in mind that it's possible for one
person to own the land, while another person owns the stuff that's
underneath, like natural gas, oil and whatnot.  The government might own
the
land, but an individual or corporation might own the rights to the minerals
underneath.

Damaeus

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[CTRL] Oil firms stoke up Sudan war

[William Shannon]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,451982,00.html



Oil firms stoke up Sudan war 

Christian Aid report accuses foreign companies of complicity in mass 
displacement and killing of thousands

Victoria Brittain and Terry Macalister
Thursday March 15, 2001
The Guardian 

Oil companies operating in Sudan are complicit in the systematic depopulating 
of large areas of the country and atrocities against civilians, tens of 
thousands of whom have been killed and displaced from the areas around the 
oil fields, according to a report to be published today. Christian Aid, in a 
searing report on the consequences of Sudan's new oil bonanza, accuses the 
oil companies of deep involvement in the government's war machine against 
southern civilians. The companies are protected by government forces and 
allow their airstrips and roads to be used by the military, while the 
revenues from oil are funding expansion of the war, the report says. The 
report includes dozens of eyewitness accounts from villages where people have 
been driven out by bombing and ground attacks. "Oil has brought death," said 
one Nuer chief, Malony Kolang. "When the pumping began, the war began. 
Antonovs and helicopter gunships began attacking the villages. All the farms 
have been destroyed, everything around the oil fields has been destroyed." 
Christian Aid's report calls on foreign oil companies - from Canada, Sweden, 
China, France and Austria - to suspend their operations in Sudan. It also 
calls for BP and Shell to divest their shares in firms whose parent company 
is involved. The report accuses the oil companies of trying to distance 
themselves from the catastrophe of southern Sudan by claiming they are not 
responsible for the behaviour of companies in which they are shareholders. BP 
said last night it had no intention of disposing of its interests in 
PetroChina "because there is no reason why we should". The Chinese company, 
in which BP bought a $578m stake 12 months ago, is not active in Sudan, 
although its parent group, China National Petroleum Corporation, (CNPC) is. 
Toby Odone, a spokesman for BP, insisted there was no operational connection 
between PetroChina and CNPC. "When PetroChina did its IPO [listing on the US 
stock market] it assured the Securities  Exchange Commission that it had no 
interests in Sudan because of the sanctions issue," he explained. A Shell 
spokesman said it had no exploration or production interests in Sudan either 
directly or through its Chinese partner Sinopec. Dave Stuart said: "Although 
Sinopec did at one stage control interests in Sudan as a result of the 
restructuring of the Chinese state oil industry, that stake was moved back to 
CNPC during 1999." He said Shell would not agree to Christian Aid demands 
that it withdraw from its shareholding in Sinopec because there was no 
connection between Sinopec and CNPC. Rolls Royce admits it provided 34 diesel 
engines to help pump oil along a 1,000-mile pipeline from Sudan's oil fields 
to an export terminal on the Red Sea. Martin Brody, a Rolls Royce spokesman, 
said the company always took advice from the British government on where it 
could do business but also had its own criteria. He added: "As a supplier of 
equipment we always take a responsible view of our actions. We gave a lot of 
information to Christian Aid and will need to look at its report in more 
detail." Glasgow-based Weir Group is also being criticised for a £20m 
contract to provide equipment for pumping stations on the same pipeline. 
Emrys Inker, a spokesman for Weir, confirmed its involvement in Sudan but 
said all the work had been done with the approval of the Department of Trade 
and Industry and the British government. Weir had no comment on accusations 
that it is complicit in human rights abuses, or on speculation that it is 
involved in a second contract to supply pumps. The report gives harrowing 
details of the lives of refugees from the oil areas who have walked hundreds 
of miles to very precarious areas of southern Sudan, already wracked by 
decades of civil war. "All the villages along the road have been burned," 
said John Wicjial Bayak, a local official driven from a village close to the 
main road built for access to the oil fields. "You cannot see a single hut. 
The government doesn't want people anywhere near the oil." One man described 
fleeing the bombing with six of his grandchildren to hide in a forest. "We 
dug a hole for the children and put a blanket on top," he said. "We stayed 20 
days in the forest eating wild fruit." Systematic attacks on the villages 
began in March 2000, according to village chiefs. One was bombed 10 times 
before government troops finally burned out the residents. Across southern 
Sudan life is on a knife-edge and the government's strategy of banning aid 
flights to Upper Nile is fanning fears of a new famine tragedy similar to 
that of 1998, in which tens of thousands died. 

[CTRL] Oil to be Released

[Amelia]

http://www.al.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0670_BC_Oi
lReleasenewsnewsflash-washington

 Alabama Live NewsFlash.url

[CTRL] Oil I Russia?

[Aleisha Saba]

Interesting item; and all the time I thought in  a communist state the
people owned everything - looks like Natiionalism mixed with new Yankee
Doodle Dandy know how?

So maybe this is what it is all about?   Rockefellers long ago wanted to
buy Russian Oi..goodbye mid East War and turmoil - take that oil and
shove it.

Think this might have caught the attention of someone?  Rather deal with
Arabs or Russianns.after all the walls did come a tumbling down did
they not?

Saba


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Stratfor.com's Global Intelligence Update - 29 August 2000
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It's not news, it's intelligence.
*Coming Soon*

Oil, Power and Politics.
Crude oil prices are higher than anytime in the last 10 years, tripling
in just the last two years.

And yet, the world's largest consumer of oil - the United States - rolls
along, largely unaffected. The global economy is changing. Over the long
term, power relationships between the world's oil producers and oil
consumers will shift, as will economic relationships between competing
oil consumers.
_
Russia: Putin's Coming Concession to the Oligarchs
Summary

On Sept. 19, the Russian government will put up for auction majority
control of the ONAKO oil company, one of the country's most profitable
energy companies. Because foreigners are barred from holding more than a
fraction of any Russian oil company, the government will likely be
forced to hand over control to the powerful businessmen once known as
oligarchs, the men that Putin has publicly campaigned against.

Analysis

After months of trying to rein in Russia's oligarchs, Russian President
Vladimir Putin will soon have to hand over to them a piece of the
country's most profitable industry: oil production. The government plans
to privatize the ONAKO oil company, the 11th largest oil company in the
country, selling off 85 percent of its shares.

The only true contenders for buying up control of the company - to be
auctioned off Sept. 19 with bids starting at $425 million - are members
of the wealthy, but allegedly corrupt, oligarchy.

The president has staked much of his presidency on diminishing the power
of these men, holdovers from the Yeltsin era. The Putin government will
soon be forced to pick one group of oligarchs over another, to control
ONAKO. The ONAKO auction may also set a precedent: It is the first of
four energy companies to be privatized.
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Russian law limits the amount of equity that foreign investors can
control in the country's oil companies, capping ownership at no more
than 15 percent, according to a June edition of the St. Petersburg
Times. The shares in ONAKO will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

More than 20 groups have submitted an offer, but only two are true
contenders: LUKoil, the largest oil producer in Russia, and an alliance
of three smaller companies, Yukos, Sibneft and Surgutneftgaz. Two
oligarchs direct LUKoil, Rem Vyakhirev and Vagit Alekperov, although
these two men are largely under Kremlin control.

In contrast, the three oligarchs behind the alliance behind the other
companies - Yukos, Sibneft and Surgutneftgaz - are Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich. Putin has publicly sought their
power since taking office. They largely bought their way into power
under former President Boris Yeltsin, amassing fortunes and increasing
their political influence. Abramovich, widely considered Berezovsky's
protege, is a Duma member, as Berezovsky himself was until recently.
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Though not Russia's largest companies, ONAKO is one of the most
profitable. The average Russian oil company makes less than 30 percent
of its profits from exports; ONAKO exports 40 percent of its product,
enabling it to reap the benefits of the higher oil prices outside
Russia. Last year ONAKO earned as much money as some other companies by
pumping less oil, according to Russica Information on Aug. 16.

Allowing Berezovsky or Khodorkovsky to control the company would be a
dangerous risk for the Kremlin, considering the pasts of the two. Both
oligarchs were linked to the 1998 IMF money laundering scandal; both
have been targets of tax police raids or investigations in the past
three months according to articles in The Moscow Times in late August.
Berezovsky was notably absent from the late-July summit between Putin
and the oligarchs, while Khodorkovsky has links to businessmen recently
expelled from Bulgaria on corruption and money laundering allegations.

For ONAKO to remain profitable so that 

[CTRL] Oil: When Drill Holes Become Rat Holes

[Kris Millegan]

from:alt.conspiracy
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When Drill Holes
Become Rat Holes
By Stuart H. Rodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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6-16-00

  Did you think there was a practically endless supply of crude oil
 in the world and that we would be knee deep in cheap
 gasoline for generations to come?

  Forget everything you thought you knew about oil!

  Gas prices have been reaching record highs nearly every day this
 year but newly emerging studies suggest the recent run-up
 in gasoline prices may just be a shot across the bow. The
 mother of all oil shocks could be just 5 or 6 years away!

  Experts now say that regardless of how much crude remains in the
 ground, what really matters the most is when oil
 production passes its peak. That could happen soon
 worldwide. The marketplace could then treat oil as a
 scarcity driving prices skyward -forever.

  What's more, the amount of energy produced per barrel of oil may
 soon be just equal to the amount used to obtain it
 leaving nothing left to run the engines of commerce.

WHEN DRILL HOLES BECOME RAT HOLES - THE END OF OIL (AS WE KNOW IT)

By Stuart H. Rodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  You're probably thinking that there is plenty of cheap gas to go
 around. Why worry? Let's hope so, because our current
 lifestyles are dependent on oil for everything from
 manufacturing to transportation to agriculture. Despite
 this and even in the face of the recurrent oil shocks of
 the last decades, very little has been done worldwide to
 lessen our addiction to the "black gold" from within.
 Consider this though. Regardless of how much petroleum
 resides in the bowels of the earth, when the production
 of a given amount of fuel requires the industry to first
 consume the equivalent amount to discover, extract,
 refine, and deliver it, its all over. You might as well
 be out of gas. And guess what? Despite advances in
 technology, that day may be much closer than you think.

  Picture this. Suppose you wanted to drive to the nearby filling
 station to buy some gas and you only had a gallon in your
 tank. What if you suddenly remembered that you would have
 to use all your gas to get there though and that you had
 been told that the station would only allow you to buy
 just one gallon. You would have enough gas then to get
 from the station back to where you started from but no
 more. If you have to use all your fuel just to get an
 equivalent amount there would be no point leaving home in
 the first place.

  The issue is known as "net energy" and it may be more important
 to understanding our future than worrying about all the
 tea in China or for that matter, all the oil available
 for future extraction from our planet. Here's why.

  "The Best Kept Secret in Washington"

  Speaking of net energy, oil industry watcher Jay Hanson states,
 citing the laws of thermodynamics,
 [2]A HREF="http://www.dieoff.com/page175.htm#_edn5"http://www.dieoff.com/pa
ge175.htm#_edn5/A "By
 definition, energy 'sources' must generate more energy
 than they consume; otherwise, they are 'sinks'."

  But net-energy analysis first reached public attention in 1974.
 At that time, Business Week reported that oil scientist
 Howard Odum had developed a "New Math for Figuring Energy
 Costs." To the surprise of many, Odum's new math
 indicated that stripper oil well operations were energy
 sinks and not energy sources.

  According to this analysis, these operations could be profitable
 only when "subsidized" by cheap, regulated oil, which was
 used to produce deregulated oil. Because the industry is
 subsidized in this way in terms of net energy and also
 from direct taxpayer "allowances", the industry can
 continue to produce oil at a monetary profit, at least
 for a while. Hanson observes, "Even without direct and
 indirect subsidies of $650 billion a year it's
 conceivable that energy companies could make money but
 lose energy by burning one $10-barrel of oil today in
 order to pump one-half of a $50-barrel tomorrow."

  But how much longer can they keep this up? Hanson says, "Based on
 the best information we have at hand today, sometime
 during the coming century [the 21st] the global economy
 will 'run out of gas', as fossil energy sources 

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  Oil: The End of The Road
  Author: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: 2000/06/21
  Forum: misc.activism.progressive



Twenty-five miles north west of the small town of Kenai Alaska, at the
end of the Kenai Spurr highway, there is a State park. For the
intrepid voyager who is fortunate enough to reach Captain Cook State
Park the views are, to put it mildly, magnificent. To the west, across
the Cook Inlet, the peaks of the Alaska Range rise, seemingly, strait
out of the bay, to lofty purple spires approaching fifteen thousand
feet. A chain of volcanic peaks stretches from horizon to horizon like
a bracelet on the wrist of a giant arm. On the waters of the Cook, a
string of oil platforms dots the surface, their flare stacks glowing
orange from burning of excess natural gas.

Among its other attractions, Captain Cook State Park is quite
literally the end of the road.  It lies as far west on the continent
of North America as it is possible to drive. Beyond the park lies
three thousand miles of trackless wilderness, finally stretching to
the eastern shores of Siberia. Looking off into the endless expanse of
western Alaska one is humbled by the notion that here, civilization
ends. Captain Cook State Park is an extraordinary place, but it is
also a prophetic place.

Standing on the headlands of the park, one can scarcely fail to notice
the erosion has claimed the last several yards of the road. The wind,
tides, and constant earthquakes for which Alaska is justifiably famous
are taking their toll - removing the underpinnings of the road and
reclaiming the materials from which it was constructed. In the thirty
years since the park was built, the forces of nature has devoured an
acre of ground that was once a parking lot. The end of the road is
slowly working its way back toward the provinces of the civilization
that created it, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. And
while natural forces are slowly erasing the products of humanity at
the end of the road, equally corrosive economic forces are conspiring
with the laws of nature to eradicate the intricate web of
socio-economic structures that the people there have built up over the
past three decades.

If the park is a preview of the future, the City of Kenai is no less.
For centuries this little fishing village was the center of society in
south central Alaska. When oil was discovered in the Cook Inlet, just
west of Kenai it became the focus or attention for the oil industry
world-wide. People came from all around the world to drill for oil,
refine the oil, and ship the oil to other places. More people came to
sell things to the people who came. Like ants drawn to a cookie crumb,
the swarmed toward an irresistible scent, and fought it out with each
other for their share of the scrap. For a time it seemed to the new
residents Kenai that they had found paradise. But like the roads they
built, their economic paradise soon began to crumble. When the
construction was completed, many of the ants were laid off. When the
drilling was completed, many more people left. When oil production
began to decline, the shops closed, the jails filled up, and the
refineries were abandoned.

Now, the winter snows occasionally collapse the roofs of deserted
warehouses; the wind overturns a hastily set mobile home. The ocean
and the ice work steadily to eradicate the forsaken docks and piers
that transgress in a contest for dominion of the shore. Vagrants and
idle youths set fires in the abandoned refineries that issue plumes of
smoke laden with what - God only, knows. Once virile construction
equipment sits, half buried and stripped of its more valuable parts,
like the skeletal remains of some long dead creature perched in a
museum of natural history. The forest wages silent war against
whatever was built of anything less substantial than concrete + those
being left to the winter's ice to deal with. The few people who remain
spend their days calling Juneau or Washington DC to beg for money.
Some devise schemes to "revive"

the paradise they see slipping away. Like Victor Frankenstein, they
vainly contemplate the creation of yet another monster (though they
know not of what sort) in hope of appeasing their former creation.
They threaten and deride anyone opposing their schemes, and go blindly
about the business of prolonging their agony. They can not see that it
is over; There is no revival in the offing. The oil is gone, and when
the oil is gone, "Things fall apart, the center can not hold." (Yeats
134) For Kenai and its people, the end of the road is near, and
getting nearer every day.

This small town in Alaska is only among the first to 

[CTRL] Oil is well with Bush

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  Oil is well with Bush


  By Tom Flocco
  © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

  Given the continuing heating oil cost crisis in
  the Northeast and rising gasoline prices
  throughout the country coupled with the
  reported role Kuwait is playing in that process,
  a report by the Chinese Xinhua News Agency
  that former President Bush visited Kuwait just
  seven weeks ago notches a few rungs higher on
  the "curious" list. This second trip to Kuwait by
  Bush since his son's presidential aspirations
  became apparent should start to raise some
  eyebrows.

  For while private citizen Bush met with senior
  Kuwaiti officials according to Xinhua, there was
  no reporting about the content of the high-level
  discussions and the former president's January
  trip was quiet enough to escape notice by U.S.
  media. Given Kuwait's role in the high fuel
  prices, one wonders whether oil factored into
  the conversation.

  Many American families have faced real
  home-heating struggles resulting from oil prices
  having tripled since last year; but now the
  public is poised for another financial assault as
  gasoline prices have already surpassed 1991
  Gulf War levels with oil analysts projecting
  potential $2.00 per-gallon prices for regular gas
  by Memorial Day, if not sooner.

  As recently reported, American oil experts are
  complaining about Kuwait's strange leadership
  role in pushing the current round of higher oil,
  given the financial and human sacrifices
  Americans have made for Kuwait. Moreover,
  those with good memories will recount the role
  President George Bush played as prime mover
  of the coalition wherein American troops were
  sent off to save Kuwait from the Iraqi
  occupation. "That's gratitude for you," said one
  unidentified expert, quoted in the New York
  Times.

  Storm On The Horizon
  With good cause, the Clinton-Gore
  administration is worried that skyrocketing oil
  prices will cause a series of inflationary
  problems leading to higher interest rates by the
  Federal Reserve Board, a potential stock market
  collapse and millions of highly stressed
  American budgets -- right before the November
  election. In a March 2 interview with Fox News,
  former Energy Secretary James Schlessinger
  said, "oil inventories for summer need to be
  built now and we are not doing so. I think it
  could cause trouble (in November) for the party
  in office if this continues."

  Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., echoed these
  sentiments on CNN the same day, saying, "the
  economy is being thrown off-kilter. OPEC
  (Organization of Petroleum Exporting
  Countries) has dilly dallied and we're headed
  toward $2.00 gas by Memorial Day." However,
  an examination of news report dates and
  comment relating to Kuwait's primacy in
  driving oil higher through OPEC, along with
  Mr. Bush's visits to Kuwait and a number of
  other coincidences points to some unanswered
  political questions.

  Former President Bush is so popular in Kuwait
  that, according to Reuters reports, his picture
  hangs in offices and residential buildings are
  named after him, and it is common knowledge
  that Bush is Kuwait's favorite American -- so
  much so that the Kuwaiti sheikhs would likely
  do almost anything to repay him for leading the
  coalition in restoring the ruling class to its
  former royal trappings of power. The question
  

Re: [CTRL] Oil Slick

[Das GOAT]

 -Caveat Lector-

In a message dated 99-08-21 01:11:31 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Richardson is urging other oil producers to link into the Baku-Ceyhan
 route. These are reported to include Chevron and Texaco

Whether Congress is "Democratic" or "Republican," whether Gore or Bush is
president, the US will still be a government OF Big Oil, BY Big Oil, FOR Big
Oil.  America will go down in history ONLY for having had the best form of
government MONEY could buy.

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 WSWS : News  Analysis : Middle East : Turkey

 Earthquake finds US energy secretary in Turkish capital

 What was Bill Richardson up to in Istanbul?

 By James Brookfield
 21 August 1999

 Back to screen version

 Tuesday morning's earthquake near Izmit, Turkey roused US Energy
 Secretary Bill Richardson from his bed on the twelfth floor of an
 Istanbul hotel. He told reporters that the building rocked back
 and forth for 45 seconds, during which time he was terrified.

 The scare, however, did not prevent him from going about the
 business of Washington and the big multinational oil companies
 hours later. On Tuesday Richardson continued a set of “serious
 discussions” begun the day before on a proposed pipeline that
 would move oil from several Central Asian countries through
 Turkey for export to the West.

 Richardson held meetings in the capital of Istanbul—only 40 miles
 north of the quake's epicenter and hard-hit by power outages—with
 his Turkish counterpart, Cumhur Ersumer, regarding their joint
 efforts to ship oil from the Caspian Sea Basin through Georgia to
 a terminus in Ceyhan, Turkey on the Mediterranean.

 At stake in Richardson's diplomatic maneuvers are not only the
 100-200 billion barrels of oil estimated to be located near the
 Caspian, but also the entirely military and strategic balance of
 forces in the Central Asian and Caucasus regions. Since the
 breakup of the Soviet Union, the US has aggressively sought to
 expand its authority in this area.

 Though rival proposed routes for Caspian oil export (south
 through Iran or north through Russia) are more economically
 attractive to the oil companies, Washington has been pushing for
 the Baku-Ceyhan route in order to block Russian and Iranian
 influence in the region and foster the dependency of the Central
 Asian states on US economic and military power. As Richardson
 told Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times last November, “We're
 trying to move these newly independent countries toward the West.
 We would like to see them reliant on Western commercial and
 political interests rather than going another way. We've made a
 substantial political investment in the Caspian and its very
 important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come
 out right.”

 A sticking point in securing the Baku-Ceyhan route has been
 finding enough oil to fill the pipeline. Oilfields operated by
 the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC, owned jointly
 by the Azerbaijani state oil company and 10 oil firms from the
 US, Britain, Norway, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia) are
 presently producing 100,000 barrels per day, though output is
 expected to climb eight-fold in the coming several years. The
 increased rate, however, still falls short of the one million
 barrel per day capacity of the proposed pipeline.

 Richardson is urging other oil producers to link into the
 Baku-Ceyhan route. These are reported to include Chevron and
 Texaco, both of which operate fields in neighboring Kazakhstan.
 With the added oil from these fields, the proposed pipeline could
 be filled to capacity.

 Richardson secured the backing of Turkish President Suleyman
 Demirel for another big petroleum project during his visit.
 Demirel affirmed that Turkey would buy natural gas from
 Turkmenistan, an announcement that will boost the fortunes of
 Royal Dutch/Shell. The oil giant announced plans last month to
 construct a gas pipeline which will run from Turkmenistan to
 Azerbaijan, underneath the Caspian Sea, then follow the route of
 the Baku-Ceyhan oil line. Arranging political backing for the gas
 pipeline occupied Richardson during stops in Baku and Ashgabat,
 Turkmenistan later in the week.

 Richardson had only arrived in Istanbul on Monday, after a stop
 in Nigeria. There he had “ironed out,” with President Obasanjo,
 the last details in a proposed $400 million natural gas pipeline
 project to ship Nigerian gas to Benin, Togo and Ghana; a joint
 venture between Royal Dutch/Shell and the state gas company.

 Richardson's trip received little attention from the press. Only
 the coincidence of a natural disaster prompted the few reports
 that did appear. No reporter or commentator pointed to the
 obvious contradiction between the unending claims of the Clinton
 administration that standing up for “human rights” is its guiding
 principal in foreign policy and its relations with the Turkish,
 Azerbaijani and Nigerian governments. Even as the collapse of
 substandard housing demonstrated the criminal venality of the
 Turkish ruling elite in the eyes of the masses of people,
 Washington offered nothing but statements of support and praise
 for its “strategic ally,” Turkey. Nor was Richardson's visit
 adversely affected by the death sentence the government has
 handed down to Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdish Workers
 Party (PKK).

 No question was 

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In a message dated 08/16/1999 4:21:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 The independent producers who lodged the cheap oil complaint argued that
 Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela and Iraq had been dumping cheap oil in
 violation of U.S. trade laws, at the expense of their business. The group
 called Save Domestic Oil Inc. sought to trigger anti-dumping laws, which
 could have led to steep tariffs on about 60 percent of the oil imported into
 the United States. It was rejected for lack of broad support in the oil
 industry; and while the independent group said it would appeal, that would
 take years.

 The American Petroleum Institute, representing major producers, had opposed
 the trade move by the independents. 

Many years ago (before Reagan pulled the teeth of Public Television) when the
PBS talk shows and documentaries really said something, I listened as a wheel
from one of the big oil companies told a panel , "Of course, the United
States would go to war to protect the oil business".  At the time, I thought
he was kooky, but that was before we went to war to save Kuwait's Democracy
and the Bush family and friends' oil contacts and contracts.  Maybe we're due
for another conflict.  Prudy

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 Iraq and Venezuela -- threat to the global oil cartel's exorbitant
profits.


Cheap Oil Imports Irk US Producers

By WALTER R. MEARS
.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Back when Americans were coping with the energy crisis, the
idea that there could someday be a trade complaint against cheap oil imports
would have gotten anyone laughed out of the line at the gasoline pump.

But there's just been one, the charge by small U.S. producers that four
exporting nations dumped cut-rate oil on the market in violation of American
trade laws, depressing their prices and crippling their business.

The Commerce Department dismissed their case on Monday. By the time it was
filed, the market had turned up, after two years of plunging prices.

World prices, which slumped because of slackening demand and overflow
supplies, have been increasing. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries agreed on production curbs to push up prices. Demand is going up,
too, and the Energy Department expects higher world oil prices to hold for
the rest of this year and all of 2000.

The Paris-based International Energy Agency says the oil glut of 1998 is
yielding to tightening markets in 2000.

At the same time, U.S. oil imports are expected to increase. Twenty-five
years ago, when the Arab oil embargo choked supplies, led to those lines at
the gasoline pump and sent prices up four times over, oil imports accounted
for 36 percent of U.S. consumption. President Nixon said the United States
should produce and conserve its way to energy self-sufficiency by 1980.
Instead, imports went up, past 40 percent when President Carter declared the
moral equivalent of war against the energy crisis of the late 1970s.

Conservation efforts begun in that era have made the nation more energy
efficient. But demand, and diminishing domestic production, have made it more
reliant on imports.

In 1990, Congress voted to declare that 50 percent dependence on imported oil
was the peril point for national security. Four years later, imports exceeded
half of U.S. use for the first time.

The estimate now is 56 percent, and increasing. According to the Energy
Department, net imports could account for nearly 70 percent of U.S.
consumption by 2020.

No crisis, though, so no issue, except for the complaint of the small oilmen
and their congressional allies, who want legislation to help them stay in
business.

There are House and Senate bills to do it with tax breaks and other
incentives. A $246 million tax break for small producers is part of the
Republican tax cut, passed by Congress but bound for a veto when it gets to
President Clinton.

By Energy Department estimate, U.S. oil consumption is expected to increase
by nearly 3 percent this year and next. But domestic oil production is
forecast to decline by 3.7 percent this year and an additional 1.1 percent in
2000.

The independent producers who lodged the cheap oil complaint argued that
Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela and Iraq had been dumping cheap oil in
violation of U.S. trade laws, at the expense of their business. The group
called Save Domestic Oil Inc. sought to trigger anti-dumping laws, which
could have led to steep tariffs on about 60 percent of the oil imported into
the United States. It was rejected for lack of broad support in the oil
industry; and while the independent group said it would appeal, that would
take years.

The American Petroleum Institute, representing major producers, had opposed
the trade move by the independents.

``There is no question that low world oil prices have seriously harmed U.S.
producers, their workers and related industries,'' the API said after the
case was dismissed. ``Many thousands of people have lost their jobs and many
firms have been shut down. But these low prices were set by the forces of
supply and demand in international markets, not by alleged unfair pricing.''

Those markets can pump prices up, too.

That's been the more customary American complaint about foreign producers.

EDITOR'S NOTE - Walter R. Mears, vice president and columnist for The
Associated Press, has reported on Washington and national politics for more
than 30 years.

DECLARATION  DISCLAIMER
==
CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic
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and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright
frauds is used politically  by different groups with major and minor effects
spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and
nazi's need not apply.

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[CTRL] Oil Popline

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From NewsUnlimited (TheGuardian)


 Oil pipeline disaster 'imminent'

 Michael Sean Gillard, Andrew Rowell and Melissa Jones
 Monday July 12, 1999

 An ecological disaster far worse than the Exxon Valdez
 catastrophe in Alaska 10 years ago could happen at any moment,
 according to six senior employees of the company that runs the
 800-mile Alaskan oil pipeline.

 The six whistleblowers have written to BP Amoco's chief
 executive, Sir John Browne, and three US congressmen warning of
 an imminent threat to human life and the Alaskan environment from
 irresponsible oil operations there.

 The letter contains evidence of compliance failures, falsified
 safety and inspection records, intimidation of workers and
 persistent violations of procedures and government regulations.

 The whistleblowers fear a possible rupture of the ageing pipeline
 or an explosion at the Valdez oil tanker terminal. BP Amoco owns
 50% of the company, Alyeska, which operates both installations on
 its behalf.

 The Exxon Valdez disaster was one of the most ecologically
 destructive spills ever. The Alaska state government blamed oil
 industry complacency and broken promises.

 The whistleblowers, all senior employees on the 22-year-old
 Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (Taps), believe conditions exist
 today for an even worse disaster. "It's not a matter of if it is
 going to happen, it's when it is going to happen," said one. The
 group provided the Guardian with evidence of compliance failures,
 illegalities and mismanagement:

 • Alyeska's quality assurance programme, vital to the safe
 operation of Taps, is being deliberately undermined by middle
 management.

 • Alyeska executives turn a blind eye to "the culture of
 harassment, intimidation, retaliation and discrimination".

 • Alyeska executive management instructed middle managers not to
 issue critical audit reports of Taps safety and quality
 compliance because it could "negatively influence" their
 employment prospects.

 • Alyeska executive management instructed middle managers "to
 disregard and/or circumvent" compliance manuals and codes of
 conduct and to "tone down, alter or delete negative reports
 including internal audits and surveillance reports".

 • Maintenance and inspection records before 1996 are lost and
 audit results were falsified to make it seem otherwise.

 • Record keeping is "totally dysfunctional" and Alyeska executive
 management is hiding the problem from government regulators.

 The six whistleblowers are risking their careers. They say they
 represent a much bigger group of concerned employees who are too
 afraid to speak out because of an embedded "shoot the messenger"
 culture in the Alaskan oil industry.

 The scandal is a blow to Sir John, who has spent two years
 repositioning BP as the leading "green" oil and gas company. The
 letter demands "immediate intervention" by the chief executive
 and the US government to "send credible and qualified auditors to
 verify the evidence" that the whistleblowers are willing to
 provide.

 The Guardian has established that senior executives in Alaska
 were made aware of many of these problems. But the group says
 Alyeska is gambling with people's lives and the environment by
 not addressing the problems. "It's more dangerous now than it
 ever was because Alyeska is being run by spin doctors," said one
 whistleblower.

 The last time senior Taps inspectors blew the whistle, in 1993,
 there was a congressional investigation in Washington. An audit
 questioned the integrity and safety of the pipeline, which
 carries 1m barrels of oil a day. BP Amoco and Alyeska's other
 main owners, Exxon and Arco, were told to address the many
 "imminent threats" identified by the auditors. Six years later,
 the whistleblowers say these safety issues have been
 "consistently disregarded".

 Last night no one from BP Amoco was available to comment.

 This latest scandal could threaten BP Amoco's proposed merger
 with the US oil giant Arco, announced last April. The $26bn deal
 would give the company a near monopoly in Alaska with 74% of the
 oil fields and 72% of the pipeline.

 However, the merger is under anti-trust investigation by the
 European Commission - with a decision due in October - and by the
 US senate.

 Environmental and safety considerations could now be used by
 political and environmental lobbyists to frustrate the merger.
 This is especially so in Alaska, where Alyeska's licence to
 operate the pipeline is also under government review.

 In Britain, safety concerns have been raised in the North Sea,
 where BP Amoco is the largest producer. Charles Woolfson, a
 senior lecturer in industrial relations at Glasgow University,
 said cost-cutting across the oil industry was creating the
 conditions for another Piper Alpha disaster.

 "Testimony from offshore workers suggests they feel safety is
 being compromised," he said. "The Exxon Valdez didn't happen out
 of the blue. There were serious 

[CTRL] 'OIL POLITICS' MOTIVATES NATO'S AGGRESSION

[Anonymous]

 -Caveat Lector-

 The Caspian Connection:
 Pipeline Politics and the Balkan War
 -
  - NATO's Eyes on the Prize
  - Today Kosovo, Tomorrow Azerbaijan
  - How a DNC Donor Changed U.S. Pipeline Policy
  - NATO Slips into Caspian Region
  - The China Connection
  - Europe's Goals, America's Troops

 from:  http://38.201.154.108/articles/?a=1999/6/9/103249


 The Caspian Connection:
 Pipeline Politics and the Balkan War
 -
 Carl Limbacher and Caron Grich
 June 9, 1999, NewsMax.com

 What has America accomplished in the Balkans after 70-plus
 days of NATO bombardment?

 Cease fire negotiations sputter along on a wing and a prayer.
 And if they are successful, America will be rewarded with the
 privilege of contributing 7,000 troops to a force of 50,000
 Kosovo "peacekeepers".  Tour of duty: indefinite.

 Though Bill Clinton's Balkan adventure did much to keep the
 press distracted from matters like Chinese nuclear espionage
 and inconvenient rape charges (reporters last hit Clinton
 with a question about Juanita Broaddrick just five days
 before he ordered airstrikes on Serbia), it's debatable
 whether Kosovar refugees will be better off for all the
 effort.

 Slobodan Milosevic, recently dubbed an official war criminal,
 will retain power over Serbia.  And NATO may even have to
 accommodate a Russian presence in Kosovo, which will only
 further discourage displaced ethnic Albanians from returning
 home.

 Not much of a victory.  Not much, that is, until one considers
 another factor that may have propelled NATO into the Balkans;
 an incentive which has nothing to do with humanitarian relief
 or scandal spin.


 NATO's Eyes on the Prize

 If President Clinton were to level with the American people,
 he might just explain NATO's first hot war by using a
 variation of his old campaign theme:  "It's the global
 economy, stupid."  Because NATO's entry into the Balkans,
 though thus far an abject failure in terms of the mission's
 ostensible goals, places the West, and especially Western
 Europe, on the doorstep of resources so vast that the move
 could mean decades worth of economic well-being for member
 nations.

 Ponder this nearly two year-old observation from the New York
 Times, reported when a U.S. security force in the Balkans was
 only a twinkle in Madeleine Albright's eye:

   "Forget mutual funds, commodity futures and corporate
   mergers.  Forget South African Diamonds, European currencies
   and Thai stocks.  The most concentrated mass of untapped
   wealth known to exist anywhere is in the oil and gas fields
   beneath the Caspian (Sea) and lands around it The
   strategic implications of this bonanza hypnotize Western
   security planners as completely as the finances transfix oil
   executives." (New York Times -- September 21, 1997)

 Or this, from a conservative think tank the year before:

   "The vast expanses of the former Soviet Union harbor oil
   and gas riches which will be crucial to funding the global
   economy in the next century.  The huge oil reserves,
   estimated at over 25 billion barrels under the Caspian Sea
   and in the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan,
   Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are similar to those in Kuwait
   and larger than those in Alaska's Northern Slope and the
   North Sea combined."  (Ariel Cohen, Senior Policy Analyst,
   The Heritage Foundation - January 25, 1996)

 "Control over these energy resources and export routes out
 of the Eurasian hinterland is quickly becoming one of the
 central issues in post Cold War politics," Cohen added,
 without noting that Caspian oil played a major role a
 pre-Cold War geo-strategic conflict as well.  In an attempt
 to gain control over access routes to the same oil reserves
 during World War II, the Third Reich waged the bloodiest
 battle ever fought, the siege at Stalingrad.

 More recent history shows that war for oil isn't exactly a
 new concept, even for America.  When the U.S. went to war
 to chase Saddam Hussein out of Kuwaiti oil fields in 1991,
 then-U.S. Secretary of State James Baker was unabashed about
 our motives, saying that there were three reasons behind
 Operation Desert Storm: "Jobs, jobs and jobs."


 Today Kosovo, Tomorrow Azerbaijan

 Ever since the break-up of the old Soviet Union, the West has
 had its eye on the oil fields of Central Asia.  And security
 for pipelines carrying the crude out is a priority concern
 that could make or break billions of dollars already invested
 by U.S. oil companies like Mobil, Chevron, Amoco and others.

 But to get Caspian oil to the trillion petro-dollar market of
 Western Europe, planners need alternatives to old pipeline
 routes that traversed Iran and Russia.  That means development
 of the huge Eurasian reserves must focus on the corridor
 between those two potentially hostile regions.

 Almost all roads lead to Baku, Azerbaijan, the Caspian
 seaport believed to be sitting on 

[CTRL] Oil and the War

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 Reuters: "There is an unexpectedly large drop in domestic stockpiles of
oil in the U.S., the world's largest consumer -- just at a time when global
producers have decided to end the oil GLUT by dumping a percentage of world
supplies."

 "Without some basis in international law, which is still lacking," the
French foreign minister said, "turning the Adriatic into the Persian Gulf is
not a good idea.''
 "The UN is the only body empowered to authorise a naval blockade.
 "So NATO is considering ways to BYPASS the Security Council, where
Russia would be likely to VETO such a blockade."


Yugoslav War Hits Russian Oil Transit Plans, Paper Says

Moscow, April 13 (Bloomberg) -- The military conflict in Yugoslavia is
hampering a project to integrate the Druzhba and Adria oil pipelines for
pumping Russian oil to the Mediterranean, The Moscow Times reported, citing
Dmitry Savelyev, president of Russia's government-owned oil pipeline network
RAO Transneft. Savelyev said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
bombing of Yugoslavia, and Russia's strong opposition, makes potential
partners ``cautious toward the proposals of Transneft because it is a Russian
company.'' The project would allow Russia to pump crude oil to the Adriatic
port of Omisalj, the paper said.

Transneft plans to construct a $500 million pipeline and new oil terminal
near St. Petersburg to reduce its dependence on oil transit through
neighboring countries, including Ukraine and Latvia.



ANALYSIS-Russia, Iran in new energy initiative

By Dmitry Zhdannikov

MOSCOW, April 23 (Reuters) - Russian Fuel and Energy Minister Sergei
Generalov effectively launched a new initiative this week for Russia and Iran
to cooperate on a series of energy projects in the Caspian basin.

But analysts doubted many of the grandiose projects he talked about following
a recent vist to Tehran would come to fruition and said his comments were
aimed at securing contracts for Russian firms and countering U.S. influence
in the Caspian.

``During my visit to Iran last week we reached agreement on mutual political
support in the energy sector as a counter-balance to existing Trans-Caspian
projects,'' Generalov told Reuters earlier this week.

His comments came as Jan Kalicki, a top U.S. adviser on energy in the former
Soviet Union, was in the Azeri capital, Baku, for the opening of a
Western-financed oil pipeline from Baku to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea
coast.

The U.S. has lobbied hard for oil and gas pipelines from Azerbaijan to the
Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, and from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to
Turkey.

It has lobbied equally hard against the transit of energy resources across
Iran, even though Iranian routes would be shorter and cheaper to build, and,
by taking oil to the Gulf, would leave it well-placed for delivery to key
Asian markets.

Generalov said his talks in Iran had focused on transport routes for
hydrocarbons, ``considering that carrying energy supplies to world markets
from the Caspian can be done most effectively through Russia and Iran.''

Russia's delegation included representatives of gas monopoly Gazprom, oil
firms LUKoil LKOH.RTS and YUKOS YUKO.RTS and construction firm Stroitransgaz.

Generalov, who met Energy Minister Bijan Zanganeh and Vice President Hassan
Habibi among others, said top priority was given to building an oil pipeline
to carry Turkmen and Kazakh oil across Iran to the Gulf.

Russia is also considering participating in building a gas pipeline from
Iran's huge offshore South Pars gas field, with eight trillion cubic metres
of reserves, to Tehran and Turkey.

Analysts say Generalov's ambitious plans would be extremely hard to implement
but were important in the wider battle for influence in the Caspian, in which
Russia, Iran, Turkey and the U.S. are all key players with diametrically
opposed interests.

``At the same time Russia is trying to help Iran, trying to prise Caspian
states away from the grip of America, and trying to secure its existing
projects and interests in the region,'' said Vladimir Nosov, oil analyst at
Fleming UCB.

Analyst Ivan Mazalov of Troika Dialog said Generalov was boosting Russia's
own interests by merely appearing to support projects in Iran.

Nosov said that by pledging support to Iranian projects in which Russia had
no real interest, Generalov was deliberately muddying the waters of Caspian
diplomacy to increase the chances of other projects which Russia wanted to
succeed.

``Supporting a gas line from Iran to Turkey or an oil line from Kazakhstan to
Iran could bring more confusion to the energy situation in the Caspian and so
help the success of the Blue Stream project,'' he said.

Blue Stream is a proposed gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey under
the Black Sea. Russia wants this to go ahead, and any initiatives which foil
rival projects to deliver gas from other countries to Turkey can only benefit
Blue Stream.

Blue Stream is the brainchild of 

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[CTRL] Oil-Rich Venezuela Rejects U.S. Control

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Venezuela Accuses U.S. of Meddling

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez's government accused the
United States on Tuesday of meddling in its foreign relations and said it
will support Cuba, Iran and China in U.N. votes on human rights.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jose Vicente Rangel said that while relations
between the two countries generally are good, ``at times there have been
pressures'' by U.S. officials trying to influence Venezuela's foreign policy.

``Venezuela doesn't allow itself to be pressured by anyone,'' Rangel told
reporters.

He said he was instructing Venezuela's delegates to the U.N. Human Rights
Commission in Geneva to vote in favor of Cuba, Iran and China. The group'a
annual six-week meeting started March 22.

Rangel criticized the nearly four-decade-old U.S. embargo against Cuba,
saying that the United States should not demand respect for human rights
``while there is an embargo against a small third country in violation of
international human rights.''

Chavez was barred from entering the U.S. after he led a failed coup attempt
in 1992, but the ban was lifted after his landslide victory last December.
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Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Oil off of Yugoslavia?]

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 of the shores of Yugoslavia?

The CIA Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/sr.html),
under "Serbia and Montenegro," lists both oil and coal among the country's
resources. No info on how much of either, although I believe that there are
substantial coal reserves in Kosovo.

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[CTRL] Oil Giant Accused of Aiding Army Atrocities

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  RIGHTS-INDONESIA: Oil Giant Accused of Aiding Army Atrocities


  By Pratap Chatterjee

  SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 29 (IPS) - Mobil, the U.S. oil multinational, is
  keeping a low profile as investigators probe allegations that it
  helped Indonesia's armed forces in massacres near Mobil drilling sites
  in the province of Aceh, northern Sumatra.

  Business Week, one of the biggest magazines in the United States, last
  week published a six-page feature on the company titled: 'What did
  Mobil Know? Mass graves suggest a brutal war on local Indonesian
  guerillas in the oil giant's backyard'.

  The revelations came shortly after two other U.S. companies - Freeport
  McMoRan of New Orleans and CalEnergy of Omaha - were accused of
  business malpractices in Indonesia by investigative journalists at the
  Wall Street Journal.

  All three exposes were published in the last few months since the fall
  of General Suharto's 32 year-old regime has allowed new light to be
  shed on the roles of foreign multinationals in the south-east Asian
  country's affairs.

  Mobil owns 35 percent of P.T. Arun, a liquefied natural-gas producer
  in Aceh while Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil monopoly, holds
  the controlling 55-percent stake. Aceh provides an estimated 30
  percent of Indonesia's total oil and gas exports or 11 percent of the
  country's total exports.

  Mass killings and disappearances near the Mobil drilling site had been
  rumoured for a decade, ever since the Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Free Aceh
  Movement), a local separatist group, began to attack Mobil
  installations in 1980.

  Earlier this year the Human Rights Commission substantiated these
  rumours when they began to exhume the bodies of hundreds of people,
  who had been tortured and killed, from a dozen graves.

  The Business Week article begins with a gruesome picture of an
  Indonesian soldier examining a skull dug up from a mass grave. The
  article quotes Mobil's denials but also points out that the company
  admitted providing food, fuel and digging equipment for the soldiers
  who guarded the region for three decades.

  One former Mobil employee told Business Week rumours of massacres and
  unconfirmed reports that Mobil equipment was being used to dig graves
  were frequently discussed at workplaces and in a company cafeteria.
  ''Every time I drove out there (Bukit Sentang), the subcontractors
  stopped my car. They said, `No, don't go out there. Don't you know the
  army is killing people and burying them in mass graves with Mobil
  equipment?'' he said.

  An estimated 39,000 people have disappeared since the region was
  placed under military occupation in 1980, according to local
  activists. In Bukit Sentang, after an estimated 150 bodies were found
  earlier this year, Baharuddin Lopa, secretary general of the
  Indonesian government-backed National Commission on Human Rights,
  said: ''This proves that Aceh has been a killing field''.

  One male whose body was dug up had been blindfolded, dressed only in
  underwear, with his arms bound behind his back by an army belt. The
  area of the graves, an expanse of scrub between a forest and an oil
  palm plantation, is nicknamed 'Lubang Neraka', meaning the 'Holes of
  Hell' by local people.

  On Oct. 10, a coalition of 17 Indonesian human rights organizations
  issued a statement saying Mobil was ''responsible for human rights
  abuses'' by providing crucial logistic support to the army, including
  earth-moving equipment that was used to dig mass graves.

  This declaration prompted Business Week to send journalists to do
  detailed on-the-spot interviews with local people.

  Yusuf Kasim, a local farmer who spoke to Business Week, said the army
  paid him four US dollars a night to stand guard over a borrowed
  excavator to prevent anyone from siphoning fuel from its tank. He said
  he watched soldiers execute 60 to 70 blindfolded Acehnese men at a
  time with M-16 rifles, shooting them in the back so they tumbled
  face-first into a mass grave across a rice field from his house.

  The publication of the Business Week article caused a stir: the
  National Human Rights Commission announced on Christmas Eve that it
  would launch an investigation. ''We have to learn whether this
  information is accurate and clarify these reports,'' said Mohammed
  Salim, a member of the commission.

  Michael Robinson, a press spokesman for Mobil at its Virginia
  headquarters, told IPS the company was not willing to discuss the
  matter beyond a short official statement. ''Mobil strongly denies the
  implications contained in the article, which are based largely on
  unsubstantiated allegations, rumours and innuendo about allegations
  that took place outside Mobil's operations and control,'' ran the
  statement.

  But activists like George Ajitondro, an Indonesian academic who lives
  in exile, say Mobil's operations have also 

[CTRL] OIL PROTESTS LEAD TO STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NIGER DELTA

[Agent Smiley]

  Original Message Follows
  Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:20:00 -0500
  Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  From: Steve Kretzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: Multiple recipients of list SHELL-NIGERIA-ACTION
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: OIL PROTESTS LEAD TO STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NIGER DELTA


  PROJECT UNDERGROUND

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDecember 31, 1998

  CONTACT: Steve Kretzmann, or Anne Rolfes: (510) 705-8981 or (510)
  653-0914 -h

  STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN NIGER DELTA
  BECAUSE OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST BIG OIL

  Three Ijaw youths were killed yesterday during a nonviolent
  demonstration
  yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta.
  Human Rights Watch reports another twelve deaths but their names not
  confirmed.  Following the demonstration, which was to demand the
  withdrawal
  of oil companies operating in Nigeria, Military Administrator of Bayelsa
  State declared a state of emergency, imposed a dusk to dawn curfew, and
  banned all meetings.  At least twelve demonstrators were arrested and
  taken
  to an army camp outside Port Harcourt.

  The Nigerian military authorities have created a Naval Special Security
  Task
  Force to police the Delta to "protect oil installations against
  vandalisation."  The creation of this Task Force is eerily similar to
  the
  formation of the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force, which
  preceded
  the Nigerian government crack down on the Ogoni.

  The state of emergency was declared in response to the Kaiama
  Declaration,
  which called on oil companies operating in the Niger Delta to suspend
  all
  operations on December 30, 1998, or face a nonviolent campaign of civil
  disobedience.

  Project Underground condemns the killings of the protestors, and holds
  oil
  companies continuing their operations in Nigeria today responsible for
  the
  ongoing crisis.  "The deaths of nonviolent protestors is not an
  acceptable
  cost of doing business" said Steve Kretzmann, Oil Campaign Director for
  Project Underground.  "If Shell, Chevron, Mobil and others can't
  continue
  their operations in Nigeria without military intervention, they should
  immediately suspend business.  Halting oil activities is the single
  greatest
  contribution that oil companies could make towards the interests of
  peace
  and reconciliation in the Delta."

  A report entitled  Shell-shocked Refugees,  released yesterday by
  Berkeley
  based Project Underground, tells of  the fate of previous anti-oil
  protestors in Nigeria. The Ogoni, like the Ijaw, are from an
  oil-producing
  region of Nigeria. Their powerful nonviolent protests against Royal
  Dutch
  Shell's devastation of their land led to a corporate supported military
  crackdown in the early 90's. Since 1995, thousands of Ogoni have fled
  the
  country. Shell-shocked Refugees tells of the 800 that are now refugees
  in Benin.

  There are fears that the deadly pattern of collusion between the
  military
  and oil corporations revealed in the Ogoni struggle may be repeating
  itself
  in Ijawland. Military helicopters move into Ijawland as the deadline
  approaches.  "When the Ogoni refugees hear about militarization and
  violence
  in oil producing lands in Nigeria today, they scoot over to make room in
  the
  refugee camp," said Kretzmann.  "Shell and other oil companies in
  Nigeria
  need to heed the demands of communities for compensation, consultation,
  and
  cleanup, lest they create more corporate refugees".

  Shell-shocked Refugees further exposes Royal Dutch Shell's role in
  forcing
  the Ogoni to flee Nigeria to a refugee camp in Benin. In October of
  1998,
  Project Underground's Anne Rolfes went to Benin and conducted interviews
  with 33 of the refugees.  "This report gives the refugees' stories,"
  said
  Rolfes.  "The men and women of the refugee camp tell of Shell's oil
  spills
  and blowouts on their land. When they protested, the military rampaged
  through their villages, often during midnight raids aimed at destroying
  the
  villages. The refugees have nothing to do all day now but remember the
  terror."

  ###

  --
  Steve Kretzmann

  "You are the young wonder-tree plant, grown out of ruins"
   -African Folk Tale






Original Message Follows
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PROJECT UNDERGROUND

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   December 31, 1998

CONTACT: Steve Kretzmann, or Anne Rolfes: (510) 705-8981 or (510)
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STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN NIGER DELTA
BECAUSE OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST BIG OIL

Three Ijaw youths were killed yesterday during a nonviolent
demonstration
yesterday in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State in the