Energy Efficiency

The Queensland Labor Party has never heard of the old Navajo Proverb ‘only when the last tree has been cut down, when the last fish has been caught, when the last river has been poisoned, only then will we realize we can’t live on money as they sign away the Darling Downs as an important [...]

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A giant deepwater oil discovery in the Tiber field (Gulf of Mexico) is likely to increase BP’s oil footprint in the region; about 8% of the oil and gas BP produces comes from the U.S. Gulf. BP is the biggest producer in the Gulf, to the tune of 400,000 barrels of crude oil and natural [...]

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America is on the ropes and its ‘trainer’ – China – is also struggling. Just as Kevin Rudd is weighing up borrowing more money to pump into the economy to make it look like its business as usual, so too is China wondering how much more money to pump into the American economy to buy [...]

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While Russia sees the future, the ‘old guard’ (America and England) – with little to offer and tied to corporate government – cling to the past … first Mr. Putin’s speech and then some less than convincing words from Mr. Brown. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speech at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum [...]

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Long before the fossil fuel era, tribes and countries around the world sought to control tracts of land in the precursors of ‘corporate government taxation’; wars have been fought over slaves, spices, gold and even salt; today the main source of conflict is fossil fuels while a secondary one for water is – for now [...]

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