Posts Tagged ‘ gas ’

Threatening NYC Water

Threatening NYC Water

December 3, 2008

Some of you may recall a great guest I had on the podcast last year, Al Appleton, the man who saved the NYC water system. I thought of Al today as I read about how NY state has loosened restrictions on drilling for gas in the NYC watershed are. ...

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Breaking Away Bolivia

Breaking Away Bolivia

May 6, 2008

Santa Cruz has 1.5 million people, the largest city in Bolivia.  It also has the most money in Bolivia, 30% of the country's GDP. Where does that money come from? -Natural resources;natural gas. When Evo was elected president, he had promised to do something about the plundering and exploitation of...

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Shame on Jan

Shame on Jan

November 7, 2007

Greetings once again from Brussels, city of long work hours and dreary office work. Today's item that has me pretty disappointed involves the Dutch government and the iron fisted oligarch that runs Russia. They've struck a deal so that the Dutch gas company now controls a higher percent...

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More on Russian Oligarchy

More on Russian Oligarchy

March 7, 2007

As I periodically do on this blog, today I'm writing about how more and more obvious it becomes that the Russian Federation is run by an oligarchy. Not that its so unique, lots of nations are run by oligarchies, but let's stay on Russia today. Last weeks news that...

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