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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The hydrogen economy: savior of humanity or an economic black hole?
SKEPTICS SCOFF AT PERPETUAL MOTION, FREE ENERGY, and cold fusion, but what about energy from hydrogen? Before we invest trillions of dollars in a hydrogen economy, we should examine the science and pseudoscience behind the hydrogen hype. Let's begin by taking a hydrogen car out for a spin. ...

Effects of seismic lines on the abundance of breeding Birds in the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary, Northwest Territories, Canada.
ABSTRACT. Current plans to increase oil and gas exploration and extraction in the Canadian Arctic include development in the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary, Northwest Territories. Various studies have shown impacts of seismic lines on vegetation, but the effects on bird abundance in the Arctic are poorly known. We evaluated...

The rule of capture - an oil and gas perspective.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE LEADING CASES A. The "Pure" Form of the Rule of Capture B. The Indiana/Kentucky, Approach: Correlative Rights. C. The Choice Between Correlative Rights and the Pure Rule of Capture III. THE MODERN APPLICATION, MISAPPLICATION, AND NON-APPLICATION OF THE RULE OF CAPTURE IN OIL AND GAS...

Drilling the West.
Byline: The Register-Guard During a recent interview with The Register-Guard's editorial board, Interior Secretary Gale Norton recited one of her favorite mantras - that the Bush administration has done an exemplary job of balancing the need for energy production with those of recreation, conservation and wildlife protection...