Energy Security
Admin - Mar 30, 10
OTTAWA, Mar. 29th (Toronto Star) - Canada took a kicking as it hosted a five-nation Arctic summit that left three other countries and the Inuit that live at the top of the world out in the cold.
Admin - Mar 24, 10
WHITEHORSE, Mar. 23rd (UPI) - A survey of the arctic's biodiversity reports a 26 percent decline in species, including caribou and lemmings, in the past 34 years.
Admin - Mar 24, 10
Mar. 23rd (AFP) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has met a senior US defence official to discuss fighting terrorism amid a warning of Al-Qaeda maritime attacks, the official Saba news reported.
Admin - Mar 17, 10
March 16th (BBC News) - The "disappointing" outcome of December's climate summit was largely down to "arrogance" on the part of rich countries, according to Lord Stern.
Admin - Mar 12, 10
Mar. 12th (Montreal Gazette) - A day after the U.S. Coast Guard's top commander declared the Arctic a region of "extreme focus" for the U.S. — by announcing plans to bolster the American icebreaker fleet by bringing an aging icebreaker out of retirement — a Liberal senator and a leading Arctic expert are calling for stronger commitments from the Canadian government to project the country's presence in the polar realm.
Admin - Mar 12, 10
Mar. 12th (BBC News) - China's demand for oil jumped by an "astonishing" 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
Admin - Feb 25, 10
Feb. 24 (Montreal Gazette) - In a further sign of the ongoing transformation of the melting Arctic into a new strategic base for military and commercial activity, U.S. lawmakers are pushing for the construction of a deepwater sea port in Alaska near the western entrance to the disputed Northwest Passage.
Rick Rozoff - Feb 24, 10
On February 22 two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and Great Britain started drilling for oil 60 miles north of the Falklands Islands, known as Las Malvinas to Argentina.
Michael Carmichael - Feb 22, 10
U.S. House of Representative Alan Grayson led a Congressional delegation that just happened to be in Niger at the time of the recent military coup last Thursday that deposed the legitimate elected government of the Uranium-rich nation.
Admin - Feb 17, 10
Feb. 16 (BBC News) - President Barack Obama has announced more than $8bn (£5bn) of federal loan guarantees to begin building the first US nuclear power stations for 30 years.
