Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, August 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Aug 28 (IPS) – Earlier this year, the Icelandic whale-watching boat Elding was fitted with a hydrogen-powered generator that fuels its lighting system, electric equipment and navigation machinery. It is the [...]
BRAZIL: The Complications of Coming into Sudden (Oil) Wealth
August 26, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Tuesday, August 26, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 26 (IPS) – Brazil’s social and economic future may depend, according to experts, on the way it ultimately handles the sudden oil wealth discovered deep under the Atlantic [...]
MIDDLE EAST: In the Race for Renewable Energy Sources
August 24, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, August 20, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Meena Janardhan DUBAI, Aug 21 (IPS) – As the world scrambles to develop renewable energy resources (RES), the oil-rich Gulf countries that benefit from high prices on fossil fuels are making sure that they [...]
The Strategic Vulnerabilities of Oil Dependence
July 21, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Monday, July 21, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. All rights reserved. Originally Published by FDD Policy Briefings Daveed Gartenstein-Ross America’s dependence on oil is its Achilles’ heel in the battle against terrorism, a fact that has not escaped the terrorists. Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders have declared the oil [...]
