[CTRL] oil radioactive
-Caveat Lector- i just found out that some of the oil in southern Alberta is radioactive and that it has possibly been for years but the oil companies have just ignored it. the regular amount of radioactivity is around 150 (on whatever measures it) but a few of the oil samples here are around 3500. so if it is it could be all over the world i will update you if i get any more info _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Oil Popline
-Caveat Lector- >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 safet
[CTRL] Oil Slick
-Caveat Lector- > www.wsws.org > > - > 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 Istanbulonly 40 miles > north of the quake's epicenter and hard-hit by power outageswith > 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 > hand
[CTRL] Oil vs.Oil
-Caveat Lector- 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 screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL P
[CTRL] oil radioactive 2
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Re: [CTRL] Oil Slick
-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. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Oil vs.Oil
-Caveat Lector- 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 DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Oil off of Yugoslavia?
-Caveat Lector- Does anyone have supporting evidence that there is a rich oil reserve off of the shores of Yugoslavia? DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] oil radioactive 2
-Caveat Lector- --- wes col <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-unknown name=oil stuf.wps Okay, then why are gasoline prices setting record highs in the US? Rich === There have always been two. One is here, the other is coming. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Oil and the War
-Caveat Lector- 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 Gazpro
[CTRL] Oil is well with Bush
-Caveat Lector- http://www.ctrl.org/"> -Cui Bono?- from:alt.conspiracy As, always, Caveat Lector Om K - Click Here: Oil is well with Bush - Subject: Oil is well with Bush From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Mar 18, 2000 2:35 AM Message-id: <8avm5b$3rb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 is whether the small country is more grateful to
[CTRL] 'OIL POLITICS' MOTIVATES NATO'S AGGRESSION
-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 trill
Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] Oil off of Yugoslavia?]
-Caveat Lector- "Hilary A. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > Does anyone have supporting evidence that there is a rich oil reserve off > 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. Bob = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Oil-Rich Venezuela Rejects U.S. Control
-Caveat Lector- 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. Venezuela is one of the top foreign suppliers of oil to the United States. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters 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. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Oil Giant Accused of Aiding Army Atrocities
> > Activist Mailing List - http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/ > > > 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
[CTRL] OIL PROTESTS LEAD TO STATE OF EMERGENCY IN NIGER DELTA
> > > 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 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 RELEASE December 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 y
