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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: New glory for Greece

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Lawrence Solomon

(February 17, 2012) A deregulated free-market Greece — in tourism, energy, transportation — could transform the broken country. Continue reading →

Posted in Energy Probe News, Natural Gas, Oil | Tagged Cyprus, energy, EU, euro, eurozone, Greece, Greek default, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, Mediterranean gas, natural gas, Oil, Turkey | Leave a comment

Parker Gallant: Auditor General of Ontario Missed Exaggerated Coal Generation Health Costs

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Other News Sources

The Auditor General of Ontario’s report of December 5 dealing with “Renewable Energy Initiatives” highlighted wasted spending commitments of billions of dollars that will fall on the backs of the ratepayers. The report offers up several recommendations which are immediately followed by responses by the Ministry of Energy on how it will deal with those recommendations. Continue reading →

More Galleries | Tagged coal, electricity, energy, green energy, nuclear costs, Ontario electricity, Parker Gallant, Renewable Energy, renewables, wind power | 2 Comments

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: 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

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 →

Posted in Oil, Shale Oil | Tagged drilling, Eagle Ford, Eagleford, energy, energy independence, environmentalism, foreign oil, Gulf spill, Lawrence Solomon, Obama, offshore drilling, oil imports, oil independence, OPEC, Shale Oil, tight oil, United States, Yergin | Leave a comment

Aldyen Donnelly: A Response to Peter Foster’s “The Demons in Krugmanomics”

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Other News Sources

(June 29, 2011) The following is a response to Peter Foster’s article published in the Financial Post on June 29, 2011. To read The Demons in Krugmanomics, click here.

Posted in Aldyen Donnelly | Tagged Aldyen Donnelly, carbon emissions, carbon tax, climate-denier, CO2, CO2 emissions, Economics, energy, Energy consumption, energy tax, Krugmanomics, non-industrial energy, Paul Krugman, Peter Foster | Leave a comment

Lawrence Solomon: Time is on Israel’s side

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Other News Sources

(May 27, 2011) The world’s dependence on Israel’s enemies is dwindling

Posted in Fossil Fuels, Oil | Tagged Arab-Israeli wars, Barack Obama, energy, Islamism, Israel, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Oil, oil exports, OPEC, OPEC Oil Crisis, Palestine, PLO, Radical Islam, refugees, Robert Kennedy, Sirhan, terrorism, Yasser Arafat | Leave a comment

Aldyen Donnelly: How the Canadian Government should respond to the PetroChina deal

Posted on February 11, 2011 by energyprbe

(February 11, 2011) Aldyen Donnelly argues that the Canadian Government should use the PetroChina deal as an opportunity to revisit punitive tax and royalty frameworks at the Federal and Provincial levels. Continue reading →

Posted in Aldyen Donnelly | Tagged Aldyen Donnelly, energy, oil and gas, Petro China, refineries, royalties | Leave a comment

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