Mar 5, 2013
Apartheid Oil?
by Media Co-op
November 7, 2011
You may have heard of "Dirty Oil", "Ethical Oil", "Bloody Oil" or even "Conflict Oil"-- but have you...
Mar 5, 2013
Extreme Extraction
Oil production plans could reshape Morocco's economy and environment
by Macdonald Stainsby
The Dominion, December 21, 2011
RABAT, MOROCCO—Many well-known voices...
Mar 5, 2013
Oil in the Desert
Will water be sacrificed to oil in Jordan?
by Macdonald Stainsby
The Dominion, December 7, 2011
AMMAN, Jordan—In March of 2011, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan jumped...
Mar 5, 2013
Oil Rich Gulf Co-operation Council Grows
Extreme extraction could prove to be the meaning of GCC membership for Morocco and Jordan
by Macdonald Stainsby
December 28, 2011
AMMAN, Jordan—...
Mar 5, 2013
Devastation, Madagascar
France's Total and US based Madagascar Oil tangle with military governments to push tar sands projects forward
(**UPDATE: TOTAL and Madagascar Oil have put the Tar Sands...
Apr 9, 2013
Petrobras and Total to Evaluate Oil Shale Opportunities in Africa and in the Middle East
22 December 2007
Petrobras and Total E&P Activites Petrolieres signed a cooperation agreement to evaluate...
Apr 9, 2013
Oil shale: Solution to Mongolia’s imported fuel dependency?
By B.Khash-Erdene
April 9, 2013
It is estimated that Mongolia has and 800 billion tons of oil shale reserves. But this number was...
Apr 21, 2013
Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announces new oil shale plan
Cathy Proctor
Reporter- Denver Business Journal
March 22, 2013
Outgoing U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Friday announced decisions on...
May 3, 2013
Madagascar Tar Sands strip mine plans from TOTAL SA of France
Jean Pierre Ratsimbazafy speaks about the potential impacts of strip mining for tar sands in hid home region of Melaky, Madagascar.
May 7, 2013
Just the Beginning of Canada’s Filthy Tar Sands
A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
May 07, 2013
Counterpunch
by MACDONALD STAINSBY
The breakneck pace of tar sands development in Canada is...