[net-gold] BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : ENVIRONMENT: How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the United States into a Third-World Petro-State
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- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 07:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
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BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY :
ENVIRONMENT:
How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn
the United States into a Third-World Petro-State
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How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn
the United States into a Third-World Petro-State
Will North America become not just the next boom continent for energy
bonanzas, but a new energy Third World?
April 1, 2012
Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/story/154787/how_the_big_energy_companies_
plan_to_turn_the_united_states_into_a_third-world_petro-state_/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/ceaw9sy
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Once upon a time, the giant U.S. oil companies -- Chevron, Exxon, Mobil,
and Texaco -- got their start in North America, launching an oil boom that
lasted a century and made the U.S. the planets dominant energy producer.
But most of those companies have long since turned elsewhere for new
sources of oil.
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Eager to escape ever-stronger environmental restrictions and dying oil
fields at home, the energy giants were naturally drawn to the economically
and environmentally wide-open producing areas of the Middle East, Africa,
and Latin America -- the Third World -- where oil deposits were plentiful,
governments compliant, and environmental regulations few or nonexistent.
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Here, then, is the energy surprise of the twenty-first century: with
operating conditions growing increasingly difficult in the global South,
the major firms are now flocking back to North America. To exploit
previously neglected reserves on this continent, however, Big Oil will
have to overcome a host of regulatory and environmental obstacles. It
will, in other words, have to use its version of deep-pocket persuasion to
convert the United States into the functional equivalent of a Third World
petro-state.
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Knowledgeable observers are already noting the first telltale signs of the
oil industrys Third-Worldification of the United States. Wilderness areas
from which the oil companies were once barred are being opened to energy
exploitation and other restraints on invasive drilling operations are
being dismantled. Expectations are that, in the wake of the 2012 election
season, environmental regulations will be rolled back even further and
other protected areas made available for development. In the process, as
has so often been the case with Third World petro-states, the rights and
wellbeing of local citizens will be trampled underfoot.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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