Govt upset with ONGC`s poor recovery (Business Standard India: Fri, 05 Jan) Petroleum secretary attributes this to absence of partners with cutting-edge technology. The country's largest upstream company - Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) - appears to have fallen foul of the government.
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Peak Oil Action Group to meet (The Eureka Reporter: Sun, 31 Dec) A "Whole Humboldt Catalogue" resource meeting will be held in the Senior Room at the Arcata Community Center on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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Commissioner calls for more local power (Stuff: Tue, 02 Jan) Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Morgan Williams is calling for a more coordinated approach to make local power generation a reality.
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Energizing America (Sierra Club: Fri, 29 Dec) {Editor's Note} In the following pages, Sierra explores what our nation can do to meet the challenge of global warming. "Everything hinges on our ability to somehow gracefully make the jump from fossil fuel to ... something else," says author Bill McKibben in our opening story. But to what?
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(12/27/2006) One Year Older, One Year Wiser. (Willamette Week: Wed, 27 Dec) News (NEWS STORY) As we close out 2006, WW learns by revisiting three cover stories that predictions can be dangerous, one Portlander can make a difference and there is life after war.
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Mark Green: W & Iraq - and the "Luck" of Democracy (HuffingtonPost: Wed, 20 Dec) In his recent book on democracy, scholar Alan Wolfe concludes that while democratic governance is superior to other forms, our American democracy works "mostly [as] a matter of luck." Our luck is running out. First was the coin toss of a presidential election in 2000 - where the winner was precisely the wrong person for the new global economy and global terrorism requiring leaders who ...
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