District of Columbia Circuit holds it lacks appellate jurisdiction under "collateral offshoot" principle to review denial of Exxon's motion to dismiss based on Political Question doctrine in case where Indonesian villagers have accused Exxon of crimes and torts committed by its security forces in Indonesia.
Exxon Mobil Corporation and several of its subsidiaries (jointly "Exxon") have long been running a natural gas extraction and processing facility in the Aceh province of Indonesia. In June 2001, Villagers from Aceh brought the present lawsuit, alleging that Exxon's security forces have been committing acts of murder, torture,...

Country Profile: Peru.
Two centuries ago, Italian explorer Antonio Raimondi wrote that Peru is like a 'beggar seated on a bench of gold'. Today, nearly half the population lives on less than two dollars a day despite billion-dollar mining, oil and natural-gas extraction. But Raimondi's ancient and cynical metaphor does not reflect...

Katrina's national security impacts: a hint of dreadful possibilities.
The Patriot Act of 2001 contains the U.S. government's most recent definition of critical infrastructure: "Systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national...

Sun, oil.
Sun, Oil World energy production from oil, 2003 148 quadrillion Btu* Energy production from "new" renewable 6 quadrillion Btu sources (excludes large hydroelectric power plants) Energy production from all renewables 33 quadrillion Btu (includes large hydro) World annual average growth in wind +28 percent generating capacity, 2000-2004 Annual average...

Hexion Expanding Production Network as Demand for Resin Technology Increases.
ENERGY RESOURCE-29 January 2009-Hexion Expanding Production Network as Demand for Resin Technology Increases(C)2009 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. today announced that its Oilfield Technology Group (OTG) is expanding its North American production and distribution network to meet demand for resin coated proppants used to enhance...

Embarrassment of riches.
WHAT Sen. "Nene" Pimentel would likely call Malacanang's "imperialism," to which he and Lito Osmena would pit a federalist system of government, is dramatized by the contretemps between the province of Palawan and the national government over the projected proceeds from the Camago-Malampaya natural gas project. Governor...

The new frontier: zoning rules to protect marine resources.
Nearly a century after zoning was introduced to prevent the ravages of uncontrolled land development, the concept is moving offshore to protect ocean resources. From Canada's Scotian Shelf to the state waters of Massachusetts and the entire ocean territory of New Zealand, ocean managers are increasingly looking to large-scale...

Malampaya project wins major int'l sustainable development award.
Byline: PRISCILA R. ARIAS The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday awarded Shell Exploration Philippines B.V. a major recognition for its work on sustainable development. Awarded at the 2nd Earth Summit on Sustainable Development meeting, the biggest gathering...

Regional incidence of the costs of greenhouse policy/L'incidence regionale des couts d'une politique concernant les gaz a effet de serre.
Abstracts A regional CGE model of Canada is developed to estimate the effect on aggregate welfare and the welfare of individual provinces of achieving Canada's Kyoto target using alternative climate policies. We consider a domestic carbon tax, international permit trading, as well as the Liberal federal government's...

Double trouble.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For years, green groups have warned that the increasing petroleum development of the tar sands in Alberta could pose one the greatest environmental mistakes of the century. Al Gore--seeking to place the development in the context of our society's petroleum addiction--has likened extracting oil from...