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Deadly Clashes Break Out Over Armenia And Azerbaijan’s Borders

Deadly Clashes Break Out Over Armenia And Azerbaijan’s Borders

A deadly clash has broken out along the oil-rich border of Armenia and Azerbaijan. The skirmish has claimed the lives of both military personnel as well as civilians. According to Reuters, at least a dozen people have been killed in the fighting. The area sits along the Nagorno-Karabakh border, which is internationally recognized as part […]

4y ago

Controversial Keystone XL Oil Pipeline To Begin Construction In April

Controversial Keystone XL Oil Pipeline To Begin Construction In April

TC Energy, a Canadian natural gas company, announced on Tuesday, March 31, that it will move forward with the Keystone XL pipeline according to the Associated Press. Construction of the oil sands pipeline, which cuts across the Midwest, is currently slated for April. The controversial pipeline is heavily opposed by environmentalists and some Native American […]

4y ago

Donald Trump Claims ‘We’ve Taken Control Of The Oil’ In Syria, But Video Shows Russians Control Major Oil City

Donald Trump Claims ‘We’ve Taken Control Of The Oil’ In Syria, But Video Shows Russians Control Major Oil City

On Friday, Donald Trump made a claim about the conflict in Syria that baffled foreign policy and energy industry experts, according to a Bloomberg News report. Trump told reporters that the United States had “taken control of the oil in the Middle East.” A video posted online this week, however, shows Russian mercenaries in control […]

5y ago

Trump Pushing Offshore Oil Drilling Expansion To After 2020 Election, Sources Say

Trump Pushing Offshore Oil Drilling Expansion To After 2020 Election, Sources Say

Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is pushing its offshore oil expansion plans until after the 2020 election. According to two unknown sources, the decision is in response to opposition from coastal Republications in the southeast U.S. and a legal defeat. While the plan aims to expand oil drilling into the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific […]

5y ago

Passport Photos Of Alleged Khashoggi Killers Obtained

Passport Photos Of Alleged Khashoggi Killers Obtained

When the disappearance of American resident Jamal Khashoggi became public, officials in Turkey came forward to present information they learned through their own investigation. Khashoggi, a journalist who was outspoken against the current Saudi royal ruling family, walked into the Saudi consulate in Turkey on October 2. It was the last time he was seen […]

6y ago

Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Has Close Ties To Saudi Prince

Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Has Close Ties To Saudi Prince

And the plot thickens. Donald Trump has taken a firm pro-Saudi stance in the wake of the disappearance and presumed death of American resident Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who was vocally critical of the Saudi ruling royal family. That royal family also has close ties to the Trumps by virtue of Jared Kushner, Ivanka’s […]

6y ago

Haitian Prime Minister Resigns Amid Riots

Haitian Prime Minister Resigns Amid Riots

According to NPR, Haiti’s Prime Minister, Jack Guy Lafontant, resigned Saturday amid the nation’s protests over the recent oil price hike. Haitian President Jovenel Moïse tweeted his acceptance of Lafontant’s resignation, adding that he will begin searching for a new prime minister. “I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Lafontant,” Moise tweeted, “and the members […]

6y ago

Iran Warns OPEC Members Against Oil Production Increase After Trump Tweet

Iran Warns OPEC Members Against Oil Production Increase After Trump Tweet

Iran has issued out a warning to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members to “refrain from any unilateral measures” to increase oil production, following Donald Trump’s tweet about Saudi Arabia increasing its oil production to two million barrels, USA Today reports. Donald Trump pulled the U.S. from the Iran deal in May […]

6y ago

Pope Francis Tells Oil Execs ‘Energy Use Must Not Destroy Civilization’

Pope Francis Tells Oil Execs ‘Energy Use Must Not Destroy Civilization’

The world’s leading oil and finance executives gathered at the Vatican for a two-day conference about ways to make the change to clean energy across the globe. Pope Francis, an outspoken advocate for taking action against climate change and for fighting poverty, took advantage of his captive audience of about 50 people by telling them […]

6y ago

Gas Prices Are Going Up This Summer, To The Tune Of 14 Percent, According To Government Forecasts

Gas Prices Are Going Up This Summer, To The Tune Of 14 Percent, According To Government Forecasts

Gas prices will be going up this summer, possibly by as much as 14 percent or higher, CNN Money is reporting. That means that Americans, on average, can expect to pay an average of $2.74 per gallon — or more in some parts of the country. Gas prices can be expected to go up every […]

6y ago

Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Over Pipeline

Environmental Groups File Lawsuit Against Donald Trump Over Pipeline

Several environmental groups filed a single lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday in response to the president’s decision to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. The six groups said in their federal complaint that Donald Trump relied on outdated information when he gave the U.S. State Department the okay to grant a […]

7y ago

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Set To Expand

Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Set To Expand

Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline, a key component in transporting oil from Alberta to the coast in British Columbia since 1953, is set to double in carrying capacity thanks to a decision from the Canadian government to proceed with a proposed expansion. The pipeline decision was originally scheduled for later in December, but Prime Minister Justin […]

8y ago

Saudi Arabia Warns Trump Against Fulfiling Campaign Threat To Stop Saudi Oil Imports

Saudi Arabia Warns Trump Against Fulfiling Campaign Threat To Stop Saudi Oil Imports

Following threats issued by the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump during the election campaign that if he is elected as president, his administration would block oil imports from Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter has warned Trump to consider his policies carefully before taking drastic action because of possible consequences to the U.S. and […]

8y ago

Why Iraq Disqualifies Hillary Clinton From The Presidency

Why Iraq Disqualifies Hillary Clinton From The Presidency

Hillary Clinton has done many evil things that we know of, and probably still other evil things that we’ve yet to learn about, but her support of the Iraq invasion alone proves her unfit for the presidency. Let’s take a little wander through recent history. This Time article from the end of the year 2000 […]

8y ago

Civil Disobedience: Tri-State Pipeline With Safety Issues Being Forced On Residents Without Proper Oversight

Civil Disobedience: Tri-State Pipeline With Safety Issues Being Forced On Residents Without Proper Oversight

There has been growing interest over the oil pipeline protest in North Dakota over the last several weeks, to the point where the Obama administration had to jump in, ordering a halt to the pipeline’s construction and requesting that the company consider the view of the native tribes in the area, who are playing a […]

8y ago

Hillary Clinton, Champion Of The Patriarchy

Hillary Clinton, Champion Of The Patriarchy

History has been made. A landmark for feminist achievement around the world. Trump is actively sabotaging his own campaign, and at long last the world’s highest political office will in all probability be held by a woman. A woman who has dedicated her entire political life to propping up the sickest aspects of masculine dominance […]

8y ago

Giant Sinkholes Threaten To Swallow Two Tiny West Texas Towns, Oil Production May Have Destroyed Towns

Giant Sinkholes Threaten To Swallow Two Tiny West Texas Towns, Oil Production May Have Destroyed Towns

The very existence of two West Texas towns is being threatened by two giant sinkholes that continue to expand, and other holes that are starting to form, as the ground under their very feet dissolves away. The citizens of Wink and nearby Kermit have become used to the giant sinkholes in their towns; but, now, […]

8y ago

Iran Oil Sanctions: New ‘Fall-Back’ Policy Will Allow Foreign Tankers To Ship Iran’s Oil Without Worrying About U.S. Sanctions — Greece, India, China, And Japan To Hop On Board

Iran Oil Sanctions: New ‘Fall-Back’ Policy Will Allow Foreign Tankers To Ship Iran’s Oil Without Worrying About U.S. Sanctions — Greece, India, China, And Japan To Hop On Board

Over 20 European and Asian-owned supertankers are shipping crude oil from Iran. According to data gathered by Reuters, at least 21 foreign tankers are buying cargo from Iran with the capacity to ship around 25 million barrels of oil. The move is met with mixed feelings by many. Dynacom Tankers Manager, Odysseus Valatsas said, “Charterers […]

8y ago

Oil Companies Abandon Arctic Drilling, Dump $2.5 Billion Worth Of Drilling Rights

Oil Companies Abandon Arctic Drilling, Dump $2.5 Billion Worth Of Drilling Rights

Oil drilling and exploration efforts in U.S. Arctic waters have ground to a halt, as some of the biggest oil companies in the world relinquished their leases in the area earlier this month. Drilling rights worth more than $2.5 billion were dropped by companies like Royal Dutch Shell and ConocoPhillips just ahead of the May […]

8y ago

S&P Strips ExxonMobil Of Perfect Credit Rating – Was One Of Only Three Companies Left In U.S. With Perfect Credit

S&P Strips ExxonMobil Of Perfect Credit Rating – Was One Of Only Three Companies Left In U.S. With Perfect Credit

The perfect credit rating of ExxonMobil is no more as Standard and Poor’s decided to downgrade the company — who held the title of AAA for nearly 70 years — earlier today. S&P had placed ExxonMobil on its watch list back on February 3 of this year and says that they made the decision to […]

8y ago

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