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Insight Into Morocco’s Solar Power Growth

Posted on October 16th, 2012 by Ivy Cada

Said Mouline, director of the new Moroccan agency of development for renewable energies and energy efficiency (ADEREE), discusses his country’s solar power growth and how other[...]

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Why Chinese Companies Are Opening Offices In San Francisco

Posted on September 14th, 2012 by Ivy Cada

Darlene Chiu Bryant of China SF, discusses how she recruits Chinese companies to build an office in San Francisco.

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Richest Governments Won’t Act on Climate Change until 2020

Posted on December 21st, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and members of the European Union have all revealed that there will be no treaty signed at the[...]

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Startling the Global Community, Canada Withdraws from the Kyoto Convention

Posted on December 16th, 2011 by John Daly

Canada has announced its intention to withdraw from the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), sandbagging the other signatories to the convention. The Kyoto[...]

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Apocalypse Redux? U.S. Natural Gas Find off Vietnam Could Raise Tensions with China

Posted on November 4th, 2011 by John Daly

First, the good news… U.S. oil company ExxonMobil is reporting a “potentially significant” gas discovery off the coast of Vietnam, stating in a press release,[...]

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Solar Energy Companies Worldwide Threatened by Cuts in Government Subsidies

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 by John Daly

In any country, at the end of the proverbial day, both energy utilities and consumers are finally interested in the technologies that generate a kilowatt[...]

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Considering China for Manufacturing Alternative Energy Solutions

Posted on October 19th, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

China has long been thought of as low cost manufacturing location for all kinds of products.  In fact many of the Fortune 500 companies have[...]

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Pakistan’s Energy Crisis and U.S. Interests

Posted on September 13th, 2011 by John Daly

On 7 October 2001, the opening phase of “Operation Enduring Freedom” U.S. military campaign began, which quickly drove the Taliban and its al-Qaida affiliates from[...]

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The Return of Gazprom

Posted on August 3rd, 2011 by John Daly

The December 1991 collapse of the USSR was an unmitigated disaster for all 15 nations emerging from the desiccated carapace of the Soviet Union. Now,[...]

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Iran Opens Oil Bourse – Harbinger of Trouble for New York and London?

Posted on August 3rd, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

The last three years of global recession have dealt a major blow to American capitalist ideas trumpeted throughout the world on the value of “free[...]

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Could Energy Resources Cause Russia to Spark a Naval War in the Caspian?

Posted on July 29th, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

In the past three decades the Islamic Republic of Iran has developed a well-earned sense of paranoia. First, in September 1980 Saddam Hussein invaded Iran[...]

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China Winning the Race for Central Asia’s Energy Riches

Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new “Great Game, except this time around, Russia[...]

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Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors

Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

China’s omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its[...]

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U.S.- Venezuelan Relations- Just “Frozen” or Beyond Repair?

Posted on June 27th, 2011 by Priyanka Samant

According to the U.S. Energy Administration, two months ago the United States total crude oil imports averaged 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), with the[...]

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