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  • High crimes on the high seas 6 Dec 2009 00:16 GMT
    ... within hours. was transporting 275,000 tonnes of crude valued at US$20mil (RM67.6mil) from Saudi Arabia ... the third tanker and the second carrying oil to be taken by pirates in what ... longer applies. But for now, tankers carrying fuel are a chief concern because with their ...

  • High seas drama 5 Dec 2009 10:51 GMT
    ... booming. On Monday, Somali brigands commandeered an oil tanker with $20 million worth of crude en route from Saudi Arabia to the United ... to the area of ocean between the African mainland and the Seychelles islands, the New ...

  • What to do while the world burns? 5 Dec 2009 09:44 GMT
    ... anomalies early in the 1980s when West Africans and then Ethiopians died in the millions ... — or any supermarket to check food prices. Individuals’ efforts help, but they are not ... and mass transportation along with curbs on oil companies that thwart greener competition. We need education ...

  • What to do while the world burns 4 Dec 2009 18:23 GMT
    ... anomalies early in the 1980s when West Africans and then Ethiopians died in the millions ... — or any supermarket to check food prices. Individuals’ efforts help, but they are not ... and mass transportation along with curbs on oil companies that thwart greener competition. We need education ...

  • What Norway wants from Zanzibar 4 Dec 2009 18:03 GMT
    ... in the island’s strategic location and offshore oil deposits that are behind Norway’s recent flurry ... of Representatives to sensitise them on oil exploration and drilling for an impending Bill on ... the lists the 17 licensed oil and gas exploration companies that operate in Tanzania. Out of ...

  • Supertanker seizure ups stakes in piracy battle 4 Dec 2009 16:44 GMT
    ... Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars. It seems that ... the Cape of Good Hope to circumvent Africa. Independent London-based think tank Chatham House warned ...

  • Paying our climate debt 4 Dec 2009 15:52 GMT
    ... more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground. Among the smartest and ... emitted almost 75 per cent of all greenhouse-gas pollution that is now destabilizing the climate. ... climate, she added, countries like Bolivia cannot fuel economic growth with cheap and dirty energy, ...

  • FACTBOX-Conflict in Somalia 4 Dec 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... 1.5 million, and the chaos has helped fuel kidnappings as well as piracy off the coast. ... off the coast. -- The government and African Union have pleaded with the United Nations ... latest seizure Somali pirates hijacked a Greek-flagged oil tanker 700 miles off the coast of ...

  • Somali Piracy and Counterfeiting Funding Al Qaeda 4 Dec 2009 02:36 GMT
    ... Counterfeiting Funding Al Qaeda Somali marauders operating in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa seized a crude oil tanker making a delivery from Saudi Arabia to the United States The Maran Centaurus was ...

  • Children's futures: up in smoke? 3 Dec 2009 19:34 GMT
    ... long term depletion of minerals of food, oil water and other essentials is equally critical. ... travel by air -- because taxes on fuel will make it too expensive. The world's ... (that is, meaningless) agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while postponing more serious action for ...

  • Indigenous delegates to UN talks in Copenhagen debut video evidence, accounts of climate change 3 Dec 2009 18:13 GMT
    ... the Philippines, the Andes, the Arctic, and Africa. The Kenya video is particularly compelling, documenting ... Territories, Jeanette leads a participatory video project exploring how climate change affects health and wellness. ... in the conflict between Waorani rights and oil development on their ancestral homelands. Moi is well ...

  • Escalate to Exit 3 Dec 2009 17:00 GMT
    ... Pakistan to balkanize both countries, weakening them by design to control the Caspian Sea's oil and gas riches and their energy routes to secured ports for export. The strategy includes encircling Russia, China, and Iran, obstructing their solidarity and cohesion, toppling ...

  • Ocean 'too vast' to stop Somali pirate attacks 3 Dec 2009 16:40 GMT
    ... while it was carrying 275,000 tonnes of crude oil, the ship's owners said. That is equivalent ... million), said Ben Cahill, head of the Petroleum Risk Manager service at PFC Energy. The ...

  • Land grabs: Africa's new 'resource curse'? 3 Dec 2009 14:02 GMT
    ... attempt to secure supplies of food and biofuels to mitigate the impacts of climate change ... one.’ Andreas should know – just as oil giants are subsidised to the tune of ... oil – from 2004-2007, the prices of crude oil and food rose in tandem by ...

  • OPINION | Ethiopia's despot goes hunting for billions in Copenhagen 3 Dec 2009 12:15 GMT
    ... is buried 200 feet under the diaspora soil.Gebito? God bless Zenawi indeed. Yeha I am ... And mind you, it is not a petrolium producing country. So the man is not ... to God u do not command poison gas and weapon of mass destruction, like Mussolini they ...

  • Kenya to Build Huge Wind Farm As Devastating Drought Curtails Hydropower 2 Dec 2009 23:23 GMT
    ... Kenya to Build Huge Wind Farm As Devastating ... different countries are doing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, stop deforestation, and adopt clean energy. ... country's hydroelectric plants. Officials have imported fossil fuels as an emergency stopgap…. This has been ...

  • Hijacked tanker anchors off Somalia 2 Dec 2009 20:10 GMT
    ... pirates in 13 months. The tanker was seized while carrying 275,000 metric tonnes of crude oil, the equivalent to about two million barrels of oil at an estimated value of $US150 million ($A162.20 million). "Maran Centaurus dropped ...

  • EU: Somali pirates seize tanker of crude oil heading to the US from Saudi Arabia 2 Dec 2009 18:43 GMT
    ... - Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in ... Officials could not immediately say how many barrels of oil were on board, but its ...

  • Hijacked super-tanker anchors 2 Dec 2009 18:19 GMT
    ... pirates in 13 months. The tanker was seized while carrying 275,000 metric tonnes of crude oil, the equivalent to about two million barrels of oil at an estimated value of $US150 million ($162.20 million). dropped anchor in ...

  • 12/2 - Hijacked Greek tanker reaches Somali coast 2 Dec 2009 18:11 GMT
    ... — A Greek shipping company says an oil supertanker Somali pirates hijacked four days ago has ... is carrying around 275,000 metric tons of crude oil. Somali pirates have increased attacks on vessels ... have increased attacks on vessels off East Africa for the millions of dollars of ransom ...

  • Hijacked Greek tanker reaches Somali coast 2 Dec 2009 17:45 GMT
    ... NAIROBI, Kenya—A Greek shipping company says an oil supertanker Somali pirates hijacked four days ago has ... is carrying around 275,000 metric tons of crude oil. Somali pirates have increased attacks on vessels ... have increased attacks on vessels off East Africa for the millions of dollars of ransom ...

  • Hijacked Greek Oil Tanker Reaches Somali Coast 2 Dec 2009 17:41 GMT
    ... - A Greek shipping company says an oil supertanker Somali pirates hijacked four days ago has ... is carrying around 275,000 metric tons of crude oil. Somali pirates have increased attacks on vessels ... have increased attacks on vessels off East Africa for the millions of dollars of ransom ...

  • Hijacked Greek tanker reaches Somali coast 2 Dec 2009 17:15 GMT
    ... off the coast of Somalia. The tanker is carrying around 275,000 metric tons of crude oil. Somali pirates have increased attacks on vessels off East Africa for the millions of dollars of ransom that can be had. But does not ...

  • Greek tanker's crew fights off pirate attack 2 Dec 2009 13:37 GMT
    ... and hoses, the crew of a Greek oil tanker fought off a pirate attack Tuesday in ... the United States with $20 million of crude oil. Pirates fired automatic weapons at the Sikinos ... naval warships patrolling off the Horn of Africa are stretched too thin. The problem has ...

  • Business Combination of Kristina Capital and Black Marlin Energy Limited and Subscription Receipt Fi 2 Dec 2009 12:37 GMT
    ... principal business activities are petroleum and natural gas exploration, development and production in Africa (through ... grew further with a farm-in to Africa Oil Corporation's Block 10A in Kenya (20%). Principal ... Boulder Energy International Inc. (Chairman 1997-2001), Qatar Fuel Additives Company Limited - QAFAC (Managing Director ...


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