North Sea Oil Shake-Up Could Give £200bn Boost
Up to an extra four billion barrels of oil could be recovered under changes put forward by Sir Ian Wood, a retired oil tycoon. His review is being published on the ...
Current News
Norway REFUSES to bow to EU’s bid for control over North Sea oil industry
Help Support my Channel https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-real-thing-tv No means NO: Norway REFUSES to bow to EU's bid for control over North Sea oil ...
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Schapiro Lecture: The Would-Be Federation Next Door – What Next for Britain?
Helen Thompson reflects on the changing nature of the EU as a federation and will seek to map post-Brexit options for the UK within this history.
Chatham House
Tony Benn seeks public control of North Sea oil
Video from BBC News article 'Government figures wanted to buy BP oil fields', by Kevin Keane. 14 September 2011. Original source: ...
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Budget 2015: North Sea incentives will benefit oil explorers longer term
Paul Smith, a partner at chartered accountants Blick Rothenberg, explains how the oil explorers will benefit from the tax breaks unveiled by Chancellor George ...
Proactive
Scots Independence: Warning Over North Sea Oil
David Cameron has warned Scotland the future of the North Sea oil and gas industry is at risk if it votes for independence. The Prime Minister on Sunday ...
Current News
A Net Zero North Sea: the oil & gas industry's role in the energy transition
The Committee on Climate Change's Further Ambition scenario illustrates that the UK will need a mix of offshore wind, gas power, blue and green hydrogen, and ...
Institution of Mechanical Engineers - IMechE
How The United States Got Hooked On Foreign Oil
The United States is predicted to become a net energy exporter by 2020. This will be the first time since 1953 that the country exports more fossil fuels than it ...
CNBC
Gavin McCrone - North Sea Oil and the Economics of Scottish Independence
A Lords Committee in the UK Houses of Parliament takes evidence from Professor Gavin McCrone on the economic results of Scottish independence. He states ...
RigInterGrater
Q&A - Developing the Oil and Gas Industry around the North Sea
Olie Gas Danmark
Dutch proposal to dam the North Sea
Scientists from the Netherlands and Germany have proposed to construct two massive dams to protect some 25 million people from rising sea levels.
CaspianReport
Stopping North Sea Oil and Gas Part 2
Mike Downham, representing Scot.E3 reflects on the importance of stopping north sea oil and gas exploitation in the context of a just transition to a zero carbon ...
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World map of Peak Oil Production
This animated map is an excerpt from a conference presentation by Randy Park. It shows the peaking of oil production (peak oil) for countries around the world.
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The collapse of Venezuela, explained
Venezuela is in chaos. How did we get here? Correction at 1:58: The Supreme Court tried to strip the country's National Assembly of its powers in March 2017 ...
Vox
Can These Companies Solve The Plastic Waste Problem?
Plastics are useful. They're used to help make lifesaving medical supplies, lightweight, fuel-efficient car parts, and insulation for our homes. But nearly half of all ...
CNBC
Oil and ruin — exodus from Venezuela | DW Documentary
Venezuela is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Hunger is widespread and there is a severe shortage of medicines. The UN estimates that ...
DW Documentary
Philippines dispute Chinese maritime expansion at South China Sea | DW News
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte is gearing up for a face-off with China. Ahead of his fifth visit to China, he is facing pressure from back home to raise the ...
DW News
Better brain health | DW Documentary
Chocolate reduces stress. Fish stimulates the brain. Is there any truth to such popular beliefs? The findings of researchers around the world say yes: It appears ...
DW Documentary
The true cost of fast fashion | The Economist
Millions of tonnes of clothes end up in landfill every year—it's one of the fastest-growing categories of waste in the world. How can the fashion industry continue ...
The Economist
How to tackle low productivity and growth
Why is the UK's rate of growth so low? What can be done to solve the 'productivity puzzle?' How can the government close the UK's regional economic divides?
Institute for Government
Yanis Varoufakis with Ruth Wishart at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 18, 2018 | DiEM25
DiEM25
Francis Fukuyama on the Importance of Good Governance
For more on FSI's governance impact, see here: http://fsi.stanford.edu/impact_governance -------- Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the ...
Stanford CDDRL
What Can be Done to Reduce Inequality?
Can inequality be reduced? How? In his 2015 book, Inequality. What Can Be Done?, Professor Sir Tony Atkinson set out a portfolio of policies for reducing ...
LSE
UK and Scottish leaders set out competing visions for North Sea Oil
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and British Prime Minister David Cameron set out competing visions for the future of North Sea oil production on Monday.
AP Archive
NATO’s southern flank security around the Mediterranean Sea
Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, among other provocative actions, NATO's gaze has been steadily focused on its eastern flank. However ...
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
The Holberg Laureate LIVE: Prof. Paul Gilroy in conversation with Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Conviviality in a Seamless World How can we live together? What could be causes of optimism at a time riddled by frictions, suspicion, xenophobia and ...
Holberg Prize
Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course World History #32
Mongols Shirts and Crash Course Posters! http://store.dftba.com/collections/crashcourse In which John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably ...
CrashCourse
VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray
A World in Disarray, a VICE special report, is a feature-length documentary that explores the disorder in today's international landscape and how it plays out in ...
Council on Foreign Relations
The Chernobyl of the East: Aral Sea Disaster
The Aral Sea is shrinking rapidly. What remains in place is another Chernobyl with a geopolitical fallout that is yet to come. Support CaspianReport ✓ Patreon ...
CaspianReport
Why nations fail | James Robinson | TEDxAcademy
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Why do some states enjoy wealth, security, health and nutrition ...
TEDx Talks
China's territorial claims | The Economist
Suspicions between the People's Republic of China and its neighbours bedevil its boundaries to the east, south and west. Added to ...
The Economist
James Stavridis: Power Dynamics at Sea
While many are likely to see land as a symbol of power, water could easily rise to a greater level of importance when thinking about global power and regional ...
World Affairs
Governing the Arctic Seas: Fisheries, Oil and Environment
Panel Discussion: Oran Young, UC Santa Barbara; Niels Einarsson, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland; Fiona McCormack, University of Waikato, NZ; and Ross ...
Dartmouth
Impact of Russian Supply on East Asian Markets and Oil Geopolitics 2
Oct. 25, 2003 This event addresses the impact of Russian supply on energy pricing, geopolitics, and oil and gas supply strategies for East Asia.
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Carbon Democracies? Politics, Money and the Pursuit of Oil
On October 9, 2013, "Carbon Democracies? Politics, Money and the Pursuit of Oil" was hosted at the Graduate Center, CUNY by the Committee on Globalization ...
The Graduate Center, CUNY
AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain | LMEI, SOAS University of London
The panel discussion "AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain" with David Wearing (Royal Holloway), Iona Craig (New America), Owen Jones (author) ...
SOAS University of London
China’s Impact on Conflict Dynamics in the Red Sea Arena
Over the last decade, China has become more engaged internationally, including in conflict zones and fragile states of strategic interest to the United States.
United States Institute of Peace
From Caspian Sea to Arctic to MidEast, How Oil Pipelines Threaten Democracy & Planet's Survival. 1/3
http://www.democracynow.org - We spend the hour looking at politics, money and the pursuit of oil, from the series of pipelines originating in the oil-rich Caspian ...
Democracy Now!
RUSSIA: BAKU: HUGE OIL RESERVES DISCOVERED IN THE CASPIAN SEA
Russian/Eng/Nat As the world's major oil supplies dry up or are threatened by war, the huge oil reserves of the Caspian Sea have caught the eye of international ...
AP Archive
American Imperialism: Crash Course US History #28
In which John Green teaches you about Imperialism. In the late 19th century, the great powers of Europe were running around the world obtaining colonial ...
CrashCourse
How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Eminent political scientist Robert Putnam discusses his book, The Upswing, with co-author Shaylyn Romney Garrett, exploring the economic, social, and political ...
National Constitution Center
Bleak oil outlook cuts $17.5 billion off BP assets
BP has written down its assets by $17.5 billion after concluding that oil prices will stay weaker than it expected for a long time Subscribe: ...
Reuters
