A legal marathon over oil contamination left by Texaco years before it was acquired by Chevron

Hugo Chavez Cements Control of Venezuela…

South Sudan will fail before it has even been born.

Alan García’s high-handed government faces a violent protest.

The Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions, but the world’s oil giants are not convinced that it will work.

Lawsuits against oil giants should come along with or be subsequently followed by indictments against ferocious dictators, power-obsessed militaries, corrupt officials, irresponsible national companies and mercenary individuals.
But who dares to throw the first stone?!

Will the government’s latest effort to bash the militants get more oil flowing?
Read more: Fighting in Nigeria’s Delta (economist.com)

Africa’s second-largest economy has home-grown problems

“Oil, ethanol, land and water have produced a moment of Brazilian alchemy. Energy is the country’s new brand.”
Roger Cohen, senior IHT-columnist, wants his readers to leave their treadmills of thinking, of judging and of making decisions in a world of changed energy-supply and -demand.
He is fascinated by the Brazilian way of economic development as well as [...]

By Judy Dempsey (International Herald Tribune)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
While governments say it is time to diversify energy sources to reduce dependence on oil, they don’t speak about the direct link between oil and natural gas

By Martin Fackler (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008
Japan’s re-invigorated coal industry is an example of how higher commodity prices are driving a search for resources even in some of the world’s most urbanized and developed nations