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EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions boosts jihadist groups
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19.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida affiliate, consolidates position as scramble for control of wells accelerates
The EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and pipelines in rebel-held areas and helped consolidate the grip of jihadist groups over the country's key resources.
Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated with al-Qaida and other extreme Islamist groups, control the majority of the oil wells in Deir Ezzor province, displacing local Sunni tribes, sometimes by force. They have also seized control of other fields from Kurdish groups further to the north-east, in al-Hasakah governorate.
As opposition groups have turned their guns on each other in the battle over oil, water and agricultural land, military pressure on Bashar al-Assad's government from the north and east has eased off. In some areas, al-Nusra has struck deals with government forces to allow the transfer of crude across the front lines to the Mediterranean coast.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Energy Exports Are Good!
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18.5.2013 |
NY Times: Editorials |
| Op-Ed Columnist: Energy Exports Are Good! |
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Two food cities: Restaurateurs compare Minneapolis and St. Paul
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18.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| It's a tried-and-true topic here — the differences between the two non-identical Twins. Familiar truisms abound — St. Paul is more tradition-minded, more respectful of its past, more Catholic, more "Eastern" (as in possessing neighborhoods, like Cathedral Hill, that put you in mind of Boston's South End). Minneapolis is more "Western" — more Denverish — more Lutheran, more restless and trendy.
There's some truth to this set of contrasts, as well as some overemphases and some strong emerging counter-trends. We thought that it might be interesting to get a food-business point of view on this perennial topic, so we asked owners and managers at three locally based restaurants with locations in both St. Paul and Minneapolis how the two towns were different, from a foodie's perspective.
No Twin Cities restaurateur, of course, would ever tell a reporter which city he or she likes better; it's like asking which of their kids they like better — and it's commercial suicide too. But people in ... |
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Annise Parker: The Modern American Boomtown
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18.5.2013 |
Wall St. Journal: Opinion |
| Houston's mayor—an openly gay Democrat friendly to business—talks about why her city is the country's fastest growing and most diverse. |
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Obama's Arctic strategy sets off a climate time bomb | Nafeez Ahmed
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17.5.2013 |
Guardian: Science |
| US National Strategy for the Arctic Region prioritises corporate 'economic opportunities' at the expense of everyone else
One week ago, the Obama administration launched its National Strategy for the Arctic Region , outlining the government's strategic priorities over the next 10 years. The release of the strategy came about a week after the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President at the White House Complex hosted a briefing with international Arctic scientists .
Despite giving lip service to the values of environmental conservation, the new document focuses on how the US can manage the exploitation of the region's vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources in cooperation with other Arctic powers.
US hinges success of Arctic strategy on diminishing sea ice
At the heart of the White House's new Arctic strategy is an elementary but devastating contradiction between what President Obama, in the document's preamble, describes as seeking "to ... |
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U.S. government unveils latest version of fracking rules
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17.5.2013 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| The government unveiled its latest version of hotly fought rules for fracking on federal land — 440 million acres nationwide, 20 million in Colorado — trying to protect mountains, forests and prairies from the downside of drilling. |
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Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says
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17.5.2013 |
MSNBC |
| Natural gas industry has a 'fracking' wastewater problem, study says |
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New Interior Department drilling rule relies on industry-sponsored database
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17.5.2013 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief
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17.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Massachusetts |
| Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief |
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Senate confirms physicist Moniz as energy chief
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17.5.2013 |
AP Politics |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Physicist Ernest Moniz won unanimous Senate confirmation Thursday to be the nation's new energy secretary.... |
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China gains observer status on the Arctic Council
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16.5.2013 |
New Scientist: Being Human |
| China gains observer status on the Arctic Council |
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As Europe struggles, the Franco-German alliance turns testy
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16.5.2013 |
MinnPost |
| Photoshopped images of German Chancellor Angela Merkel dressed in Nazi uniform have become a common sight at angry protests across Europe , especially in southern countries that disagree with her budget-cutting prescription to lead the Continent out of its debt crisis.
But it is a far less provocative message of European discontent, coming from the ruling party of France , that has some more worried.
In a recent draft document, French Socialist politicians blamed Ms. Merkel’s “selfish intransigence,” and dubbed her the “chancellor of austerity,” with some even publicly picking a fight with the German leader. In doing so, they are putting to the test one of the cornerstones of the European Union : the Franco-German alliance.
The relationship between the two powers has always been fraught due to their profoundly different political systems and cultures. And today the cohesion of the 27-member EU is founded on much more than just the relationship between the two biggest economies of the ... |
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Tri-State calls for renewable mandate veto
(Cached)
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16.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| DENVER x2013 The company that supplies coal-powered electricity to rural Colorado is waging a media campaign to try to convince Gov. John Hickenlooper to veto a renewable-energy bill.Itx2019s the biggest political advertising blitz since last fallx2019s election, and it included a full-page ad and half-page ad Sunday in The... |
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Hess, Elliott reach deal, end fight
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16.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Business & Technology |
| Hess has reached a deal with a major investor to end a bitter fight over the management and direction of the oil and gas company. |
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Letters: No plans for new investment in coal
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16.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| Your article ( European energy chief puts forward case for funding coal , 12 May) says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has "hinted it may expand funding of high-carbon coal projects despite mounting pressure from climate change campaigners to rule out such investments". This suggestion is wrong. The EBRD is not considering an expansion of its funding of coal projects. The EBRD has been pioneering in its development of a sustainable energy initiative which is actively promoting energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources across the regions where it invests. The EBRD may, on a selective basis and taking into account the lack of availability of alternative sources of energy, consider financing coal-fired projects that would replace highly polluting existing plants with new state of the art ones, thus improving energy efficiency and lowering emissions. But there is no consideration of a policy of expanding its funding for coal projects.
Anthony Williams
European ... |
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China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council
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16.5.2013 |
International Herald Tribune: Americas |
| China Granted Observer Seat on Arctic Governing Council |
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Climate change activists say they blocked freighter from delivering coal to Mass. power plant
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15.5.2013 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Climate change activists say they blocked freighter from delivering coal to Mass. power plant |
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Amnesty for undeclared dollars divides Argentina
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15.5.2013 |
Seattle Times: Nation & World |
| A plan to get Argentines to pull their undeclared U.S. dollars from under their mattresses and out of illegal tax havens, and deposit them in the banking system is eliciting warnings that it will turn the country into a magnet for money launderers and organized crime. |
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India enters Arctic Council as observer
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15.5.2013 |
Hindu: News |
| China, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore are the other observers to the body of eight Arctic nations |
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Oil and gas products: pumped prices?
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15.5.2013 |
Financial Times: Energy |
| The European Commission probe into concerns about anti-competitive behaviour should be taken seriously |
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