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Oil
Prospecting cleared
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2003
Steamrollering objections from lawmakers of various coastal states, the us senate recently approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Hands off Alaska
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2003
the us, it is widely believed, can go to great lengths to lay its hands on oil -- whether this means having to unleash a full-fledged war on faraway Iraq, or throwing open a part of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (anwr) back home. At least in the latter case, its attempt has been foiled for the time being.
Damodar - Ten years after
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2003
Also read: Damodar - Ten years ago
Well-oiled racket
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2003
two incidents of illegal handling of waste oil have come to light recently, underscoring the fact that trade in the hazardous product continues unabated in India. That this is being done in utter disregard of Supreme Court (sc) directives -- and despite India being a signatory to the Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes -- makes the act even more reprehensible.
Perseverance pays
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: Feb 28, 2003
Neurologist Hugo Moser's unveiling of a 10-year-long study into the effects of Lorenzo's oil has shown that perseverance and logic are a powerful substitute to conventional research. When Lorenzo, the son of Augusto and Michaela Odone, was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy (ald), there was no cure for the disease. Unable and unwilling to let their child die, they worked hard at understanding biochemistry.
The slippery lifeline
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2003
Cooking up mustard
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2002
mustard, an integral part of Indian cuisine, has now become the subject of a raging controversy in the top echelons of India's scientific establishment.
Oil that glitters
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2002
The post-war boom had brought gas-guzzling vehicles, expanding highways and mushrooming suburbs in the industrialised countries, especially the US. This boom was fuelled by oil - the industrialised economies depended almost entirely on intensive use of fossil fuels. The world learned about its dependence on oil in 1973. The Yom Kippur War broke out in October 1973 between Arab countries and Israel. The Arab nations embargoed oil export to Western nations that supported Israel and cut down production.
Energised by oil
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2002
"Not since the rise of the railroads more than a
century ago has a single industry [energy] placed so many foot soldiers at the top of a new administration."
- Newsweek, May 14, 2001
The Caspian affair
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2002
The Caspian region has possibly the third largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world (after the Persian Gulf and western Siberia), estimated to be up to 15 per cent of the total reserves of the world. Hardly any of this potential has been tapped as yet, and it is expected that there are much bigger reserves that haven't been assessed as yet.
