Category Archives: Shale Oil

Lawrence Solomon: Hottest year ever?! Climate doomsayers may have hit the panic button a little too early

Global warming doomsayers have issues confronting reality. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Saudi Arabia’s war of attrition

With the U.S. no longer a reliable ally, and no longer in need of Saudi oil, the Saudis know they are on their own against Iran. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: How global warming policies have led to global insecurity

(September 4, 2014) Limits on energy production in the West enabled conflicts in the Ukraine and the Middle East. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Fight jihad, stop carbon taxes

(February 21, 2013) Shale oil boom means security. Continue reading

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Russia deal could make Israel a major energy exporter

(November 29, 2012) A joint venture between Russia’s national gas giant Gazprom and Israel to develop its offshore gas fields, could propel Israel to energy superpower status in the Middle East. Lawrence Solomon’s recent presentation to the Middle East Forum forms the basis of the following article. Continue reading

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Israel’s shale-oil deposits may be its making

(April 12, 2012) Controlling the sources of energy in our world equals power and influence, and this power may be transferred to Israel, whose shale oil is estimated at probably as much as 5 billion barrels. ~ from a conference on the Middle East featuring Lawrence Solomon. Continue reading

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Israel: On brink of energy self-sufficiency?

(March 30, 2012 ) Israel could well become a net exporter of oil and gas in the near future, a forum on the Middle East was told. The claim was made by an environmentalist and a former Canadian diplomat at a conference on “Canada and the New Middle East.” Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: A world awash in oil

(March 30, 2012) The Middle East will go back to being an obscure backwater. Continue reading

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Canadian energy interests in the new Middle East

(March 27, 2012) Emerging energy technologies and new energy discoveries in Israel and the Middle East will transform that region, possibly more so than the Arab Spring uprisings, said Energy Probe’s Lawrence Solomon, at a conference on Canada and the new Middle East. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

(July 5, 2011) Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president to vow and fail to wean the United States off its dependency on Middle Eastern oil. Barack Obama will be the last. The United States today has the wherewithal to become independent in energy. Once Obama goes, it will also have the will. Continue reading

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