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Mexico's Battle over Oil  new

On April 8, President Felipe Calderon dropped a political bomb on the Mexican political scene. The Senate received an executive initiative that would fundamentally change the structure and operations of the oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Key operations of the state-owned enterprise would pass into private hands.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5231

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Pedaling Toward Cleaner Cities  new

What single silver bullet can simultaneously reduce air pollution and oil dependency, roll back urban congestion, and fight obesity? The bike!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/14/8938/

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Beyond Dams: Options & Alternatives

A report by International Rivers Network and American Rivers provides an overview of low-impact and non-structural alternatives to dams, designed as a reference for anyone interested in exploring options for replacing a function served by an existing dam or replacing a function to be served by a dam.

http://www.irn.org/basics/alternatives/index.php?id=BeyondDamsReport.html

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Chernobyl's death toll: twisting the facts

Twenty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, Rob Edwards assails official attempts to diminish the human impact of the disaster. Published on OpenDemocracy.net - 26.4.06

http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions_government/chernobyl_3477.jsp

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Cuba's Pathbreaking Energy Policies

This article compares the experiences of North Korea and Cuba, countries which lost their relatively cheap oil when the Soviet Union collapsed, arguing that the rest of the world must learn from the positive experience of Cuba's transition to a less-oil dependent society. As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. (Nicolas van Hoffen, the Nation, 22 August 2006)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060828/howl

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Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence". The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as "inaccurate and misleading". (David Adam, Guardian, 20 September 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm

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"The Opacity Of Oil: Oil Corporations, Internal Violence, And International Law" [PDF - 94Kb]

Robert Dufresne Journal of International Law & Politics. Volume 36, Numbers 2-3 Report which argues that "there is serious evidence that oil corporations' interests and power reach far beyond [mainstream politics]... and often touch the very core of the most fundamental problem in political theory, i.e., the legitimate use of violence and of the coerced imposition and preservation of order."

http://www.law.nyu.edu/journals/jilp/issues/36/36_2_3_Dufresne.pdf

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'Energy Security' Plan Panned over Climate, Nuclear Concerns

Leaders of the Group of Eight have drawn fire from international civil society groups after they embraced an energy plan that favors continued reliance on oil and other fossil fuels with no hint of any solid steps to deal with the impending threat of climate change. (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US, 18 July 2006)

http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/136639/1/4536

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A Fury Building Up Across India

In this interview, Arundhati Roy updates her essay on the Narmada issue, The Greater Common Good, published in 1999. Roy talks about how the battle in the Narmada Valley has raised radical questions about the top-heavy model of development India has opted for. But also how it has raised very specific questions about specific dams. Though much of the noise now is centered on the issue of displacement and resettlement, Roy argues that the really vital questions that have not been answered are the ones that question the benefits of dams.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=10174

(Added: Mon May 01 2006   Hits: 103)

A Negotiated Solution To The Iranian Nuclear Crisis Is Within Reach

The urgency of halting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and moving toward their elimination, could hardly be greater. As threatening as the crisis is, the means exist to defuse it. This article connects the present situation in Iran to historical Iran-US relations, and puts forward the options for resolving the crisis. (Noam Chomsky, Zmag, 19 June 2006)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-06/19chomsky.cfm

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Activists win symbolic victory at Exxon meeting

A majority of Exxon Mobil Corp. investors voted in favor of a proposal opposed by the oil company, as fury over fat CEO compensation helped give activists their first such victory in Exxon's history. All this comes alongside consumer fury over soaring gasoline prices and growing anger among environmentalists over Exxon's controversial stance questioning the science behind global warming. (Deepa Babington, Reuters AlertNews, 31 May 2006)

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36605/newsDate/1-Jun-2006/story.htm

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Aiding oil, harming the climate : A Database of Public Funds for Fossil Fuels (pdf)

This report describes the role of the World Bank and other international financial institutions have in reshaping the oil sectors in developing countries and providing development assistance to finance their operations. (Oil Change International, December 2007)

http://www.endoilaid.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/aidingoilreport.pdf

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Alternative energy and women in Rural Nepal [PDF]

The Rural Energy Development Programme in Nepal aimed to take a holistic and participatory approach to development, including the empowerment of women. This article looks at the impact of the programme on women in Kavre district, including some of the factors which influenced the outcome of the programme for women in two villages where it has had varying degrees of success.

http://www.leisa.info/FritZ/source/getblob.php?o_id=72639&a_id=211&a_seq=0

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Appeasement Driven by Oil: The Bush Administration and Darfur

The ongoing slaughter in Darfur turns out to be significantly connected to oil exploration, and thus the oil explorers, the Europeans and the Chinese. In late August, the Bush administration launched the mid-term election season in the United States country with a round of "appeasement" charges against the opponents of its war in Iraq. This article considers that charge of "appeasement" in the context of the genocide in Darfur and the oil race in that region. (David Morse, TomDispatch, 2006)

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=124232

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Arundhati Roy on India, Iraq, U.S. Empire and Dissent

In this interview with Amy Goodman, the Indian writer speaks about nuclear weapons, the crisis in democracy, the war in Iraq, dissent and empire. (Democracy Now, 23 May 2006)

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/23/1358250

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Big Oil moves ahead on human rights, slowly

The world's major oil companies are responding to years of public pressure to address human rights concerns tied to their operations in second- and third-world countries. Several companies have come out with explicit human rights protection policy statements, in what human rights groups have called a promising first step. (Reuters, 27 September 2006)

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060927/oil-human-rights-exxon.htm

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Brazil powers ahead

Brazil's success in converting sugar cane to fuel is teaching the US a much-needed lesson in energy efficiency, but the process is not without its own problems. (Nick Mathiason, Guardian Weekly, June 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,1792303,00.html

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Charting a New Energy Future

Renewable energy technologies have the potential to meet world energy demand many times over and are now ready for use on a large scale. In State of the World 2003, Charting a New Energy Future, Worldwatch Research Associate Janet Sawin explains how a transition from today's mix of fossil fuels, nuclear, and big hydropower to renewables (including wind and solar power), will significantly reduce the threats that today's fuel sources pose to the environment, public health and welfare, and international political stability.

http://www.worldwatch.org/live/discussion/65/

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Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment Framework

This 157 page report comes in response to a request made by the eight most industrialised nations at last year's G8 summit. It discusses the issues underlying the development of an Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development, and suggests a shift in policy in order to provide more funding to help developing countries generate power more cleanly and efficiently. To this end, the report asks the bank's development committee to approve new types of loans and grants, and proposes a venture capital fund to help develop 'clean energy' technologies and bring them to market. The proposals would help developing nations reduce their emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The report also discusses the need to help developing countries adapt to the effects of climate change. (Development Committee, World Bank, 5 April 2006)

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEVCOMMINT/Documentation/20890696/DC2006-0002(E)-CleanEnergy.pdf

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Darkness in the Lesotho Highlands: Promises for Power Go Unfulfilled

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a massive, multi-dam scheme built to divert water from Lesotho's Maloti Mountains to South Africa's industrial Gauteng Province. In an effort to prevent the permanent impoverishment of these people, the governments of South Africa and Lesotho promised in the LHWP Treaty that affected people "will be enabled to maintain a standard of living not inferior to that obtaining at the time of first disturbance." Now, ten years after the pledge was made, affected people's hopes of electricity have faded. It is just another promise not kept. (Ryan Hoover, International Rivers Network, October 31, 2000)

http://www.irn.org/programs/lesotho/index.php?id=001031darkness.html

(Added: Thu Apr 27 2006   Hits: 87)

Defiance in the land of the free

For over 30 years, Carrie and Mary Dann have fought the US government for Western Shoshone rights to 60m acres of land that stretch through Nevada into neighbouring states. Until now, the harassment has hardly scratched the conscience of America, but that might be about to change. In March, in an unprecedented document, the UN demanded that the US government halt all actions against the Shoshone and find a solution acceptable to them and in accordance with their rights. This landmark decision could force the government to transform antiquated federal Indian law. (Nicola Graydon, The Sunday Times, 23 April 2006)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2142374.html

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Doing More with Less: An EC Green Paper on Energy Efficiency [pdf]

Even without high and volatile oil prices, which have led to a downgrading of the prospects of economic growth in Europe, there would be very good reasons for the European Union to make a strong push towards a re-invigorated programme promoting energy efficiency at all levels of European society. These include environmental protection and the EU's Kyoto obligations, competitiveness and the Lisbon agenda, and security of supply. This Green Paper seeks to act as a catalyst, leading to a renewed energy-efficiency initiative at all levels of European society - EU, national, regional and local. In addition, this Green Paper seeks to make a significant contribution, by way of example and leadership, to kick-start an international effort to contribute to addressing climate change through energy efficiency. (European Commission, 22 June 2005)

http://europa.eu.int/comm/energy/efficiency/doc/2005_06_green_paper_book_en.pdf

(Added: Thu Apr 13 2006   Hits: 185)

Energia

ENERGIA is an international network on gender and sustainable energy which links individuals and groups concerned with energy, sustainable development, and gender. ENERGIA's goal is to contribute to the empowerment of rural and urban poor women through a specific focus on energy issues. Founded in 1995, ENERGIA is now active in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania, as well as in Europe, North America and Australia.

http://www.energia.org/

(Added: Wed Sep 21 2005   Hits: 410)

Energy Efficiency Guide for Industry in Asia

This Guide has been developed for Asian companies who want to improve energy efficiency through Cleaner Production and for stakeholders who want to help them. The Guide includes a methodology, case studies for more than 40 Asian companies in 5 industry sectors, technical information for 25 energy equipments, training materials, a contact and information database, and much more...

http://www.energyefficiencyasia.org/

(Added: Thu Jan 19 2006   Hits: 237)

Energy for the Poor (PDF)

From the Department for International Development (DFID) UK. This document highlights some of the ways in which access to clean, efficient energy services can tackle poverty and make a difference to poor people's lives.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/energyforthepoor.pdf#search=%22Energy%20for%20the%20Poor%20%20dfid%22

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