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Oil survey says Arctic reserves may rival top suppliers

25 Jul 2008 07:59 GMT

... than all the known reserves in Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico , and enough to supply ... just 1,2% of the Arctics crude . Energy producers such as Royal Dutch Shell and ... petroleum remaining on earth. Russia dispatched a nuclear-powered icebreaker to the Arctic Ocean last year ...

Chuck Spinney: Obama's Politics of Change: Afghanistan & Gore's Transformative Vision

25 Jul 2008 07:33 GMT

... Ahmed Massood. Massood, the charismatic albeit brutal Tajik leader of the Northern Alliance, was the ... end US dependency on carbon for electrical power (i.e., coal, oil, gas) in 10 years ... years by throwing money at the renewable energy programs in a crash program patterned after ...

DIARY - Western European Corporate events from July 25, 2008

25 Jul 2008 07:09 GMT

... Informa PLC H1 28/Jul GB ITM Power Plc PRELIM 28/Jul GB Keller Group ... SA Q2 29/Jul PT REN Redes Energeticas Nacionais SGP H1 29/Jul PT Sonaecom ... Brothers Group PLC YRTRADE 30/Jul GB Kazakhmys PLC Q2 TRADE 30/Jul GB Lloyds ...

SCO foreign ministerial meeting kicks off in Tajikistan

25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT

... role in the world, and in particular Central Asia. The meeting will also adopt a joint ... be discussed. The SCO, comprising Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, has maintained a moratorium on ...

Rio Tinto to double uranium output, move to potash

25 Jul 2008 06:35 GMT

... life, Chiaro said. "We're pursuing opportunities in Kazakhstan but are also in discussions for prospects ... uranium plans are China's growth in nuclear power, set to go up from a current ... gigawatts by 2020, Chiaro said. Uranium producer Energy Resources of Australia, which is a 68% ...

Indonesian shares end morning lower after four-day rally

25 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT

... the market's four-day rally but gains in energy stocks helped limit the fall in the ... 5.5 percent to 6,050 rupiah and Bank Central Asia lost 4.1 percent to 2,925 rupiah. Index ... on stronger crude palm oil prices. Some coal companies also bounced back after recent falls. ...

Rio Tinto to double thermal coal by 2015

25 Jul 2008 05:54 GMT

... Rio Tinto to double thermal coal by 2015 Rio Tinto says it plans ... thermal coal operations by 2015," Rio Tinto Energy and Minerals chief executive Preston Chiaro told ... pursue uranium firm acquisition opportunities, particularly in Kazakhstan. He said Rio Tinto hadn't identified any ...

Rio plans to double uranium output

25 Jul 2008 05:49 GMT

... new opportunities. (ASX: RIO) chief executive of energy and minerals, Preston Chiaro, said the miner ... also in talks for new opportunities in Kazakhstan and Jordan. Rising production costs at its ... said the company planned to double coking coal output by 2015, as well as increasing ...

Kazakhmys plans $2 bln production investment -report

25 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT

... ALMATY, July 25 (Reuters) - Kazakh copper major Kazakhmys (KAZ.L: ) plans to ... smelting and refining facilities. It also owns coal mines and power plants. (Writing by Maria Golovnina; Editing by ...

Arctic may contain 90 billion barrels of oil, USGS says

25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT

... than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined, and enough to supply ... the Arctic's crude, the U.S. report showed. Energy producers such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc ... petroleum remaining on Earth." Russia dispatched a nuclear-powered icebreaker to the Arctic Ocean last year ...

Insights | The Carbon Curtain

25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT

... how things look to one very knowledgeable energy analyst, Vinod K. Dar, who runs Dar ... farms, fertilizer plants, steel mills, highways and power plants. Oil and coal are the only ... it will get coal and uranium from Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia. Australia has huge reserves ...

Obama's pro-Israel stance no surprise to Arabs

25 Jul 2008 04:39 GMT

... 20, a student in Beirut, citing the power of the Jewish lobby in America. The ... - although Obama said on Wednesday a nuclear Iran would pose a grave threat. 'It ... Obama is elected,' said Iranian analyst Abdolreza Tajik, citing the Democrat's softer tone. 'But America's ...

Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One

25 Jul 2008 04:35 GMT

... Supreme Court's most important decision on presidential power ever. He is now the first defendant ... small army of jihadis to fight alongside Tajikistan's Islamic insurgency against its Russian-backed government. Hamdan ... the Northern Alliance soldiers hog-tied him with electrical wire, placed a hood over his head ...

Panel urges UN to consider anti-terrorism agency

25 Jul 2008 02:54 GMT

... influx of foreign jihadi fighters from Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East, in one ... counterterrorism along the lines of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. It also recommended that the U.N. ...

The Carbon Curtain

25 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT