Category Archives: Fossil Fuels

Lawrence Solomon: Vladimir the Great

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Lawrence Solomon

(March 2, 2012) After centuries of serfdom, Putin has delivered prosperity. But it is also easy to foresee a Russian economic collapse, if Putin follows in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Continue reading →

Posted in Natural Gas, Oil, Uncategorized | Tagged energy, fracking, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean gas, natural gas, Offshore Oil, Oil, Putin, Russia, Russian election, tight oil | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Israel’s gas diplomacy

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Lawrence Solomon

(February 24, 2012) Israel: ‘Gas is our strategic interest for new partnerships’. Continue reading →

Posted in Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oil | Tagged alliance of the periphery, Cyprus, energy, EU, euro, eurozone, Greece, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean gas, natural gas, Oil, South Sudan, Turkey | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Harper’s mission

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Other News Sources

(February 3, 2012) He is the only PM in memory who has shown any spine in his dealings with China’s brutal plunderers. Continue reading →

Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil, Uncategorized | Tagged China, China trade, environmental lobby, foreign investment, Gateway, Hu Jintao, Keystone, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, Stephen Harper, trade | 2 Comments

Lawrence Solomon: Democratic jackpot

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

The game-changer is “unconventional fossil fuels,” much of it trapped in shale — rock that often contains oil or gas. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil | Tagged China, fossil fuels, fracking, geopolitics, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Russia, shale gas, Shale Oil, terrorism | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Divide Libya into its tribal parts

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(October 28, 2011) Who should get Libya’s fabulous oil and gas wealth, an amount that could be equivalent to several million dollars per Libyan? Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Oil | Tagged Arab Spring, civil war, energy, Gaddafi, Lawrence Solomon, libya, Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, Oil, Sharia, tribal, UN | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Harper’s next stand

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Other News Sources

The PM spoke out for the seal hunt. Now he must support the Alberta oil sands. Continue reading →

Posted in Tar Sands | Tagged Alberta, Barack Obama, Canada, Energy Technology, Environmental Issues and Protection, European Union, Hillary Clinton, Keystone Pipeline, Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling, Oil Production and Refining, oil sands, Stephen Harper, U.S. Congress | 1 Comment

Lawrence Solomon: New battle over Mediterranean gas

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

The Middle East has moved north, with the Mediterranean emerging as home to some of the world’s richest deposits of energy. And as in the Middle East, rights to resources will be settled less by law than by force, or by the threat of force. Continue reading →

Posted in Fossil Fuels, Pipelines | Tagged Cyprus, EEZ, energy, Exclusive economic zone, Greece, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean Sea, Natural gas pipeline, Turkey | 3 Comments

Academics: Aliens may threaten to destroy Earth

Posted on September 19, 2011 by energyprbe

Columnist Robin Beres asks, if aliens were coming to judge us for fossil fuel use, wouldn’t they have passed sentence several hundred years ago for, say, coal. Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Coal, Energy Probe News, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power | Tagged Al Gore, Alien Energy Shields, Climate Change, Director, Energy Probe Research Foundation, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Food, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Habibullo Abdussamatov, Lawrence Solomon | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Tyranny of the north

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Lawrence Solomon

(August 19, 2011) Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez, was in the news this week for brashly announcing an expropriation of the mineral rights of the citizens of his country. We don’t seize private property that way in our democracy. We seize it silently and in plain sight, as seen in the province of Alberta, which so deftly passed stealth legislation two years ago that most Albertans are only now discovering the government’s audacious takeover of their property rights. Continue reading →

Posted in Alberta Power Industry, Climate Change, Coal, Costs, Benefits and Risks, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Tar Sands | Tagged Alberta, carbon dioxide, centralization, Climate Change, CSS, Global Warming, Hugo Chavez, Lawrence Solomon, oil sands, sequestration, tar sands, transmission lines | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Liberate U.S. oil

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Other News Sources

(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 →