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RA in Upstream: Confronting Resource Nationalism
Robert Amsterdam was profiled in the new issue of Upstream magazine, an energy trade magazine, on how international energy companies can and should defend their rights in resource nationalist market...
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Shell’s Nigerian Withdrawal Underscores Human Rights-Energy Gap
The year 1995 was very tragic for Nigeria: after years of starvation and exploitation, the ethnic minority in Ogoniland, an area rich in oil and gas, began mounting a peaceful civil society movement...
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Africa Raises the Infrastructure Bar on Investors
It’s a familiar story, and I won’t be the first one to tell you. As documented widely, the rapid industrial rise of the BRIC economies has created an unexpected demand crush on natural resource...
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A Terminal Disagreement Between Poland and Germany
Many question the legitimacy of German trepidation regarding the building of an energy terminal in northwest Poland as further proof positive of heavy Russian influence in both Berlin and throughout...
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Polish Villages Eye Shale to Break Coal Addiction
Polish rural communities largely depend on low-cost but dirty coal for their heating, but under pressure from Brussels to provide cleaner energy, Warsaw is proposing controversial shale gas wells as an...
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Shale Gas Producers Facing Increased Scrutiny
North American natural gas producers are facing tougher scrutiny and regulation from government, with the U.S. industry warning that new rules proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could...
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Mozambique’s Coming Resource Boom
To describe the recent discovery of natural gas deposits off the Southern coast of Mozambique as “transformational” might be an understatement. Until recently, this East African country of about 23...
View ArticlePolish Researchers Find Shale Gas Fracking ‘Environmentally Safe’
Oil and Gas Eurasia has recently published significant findings from the Polish Geological Institute that could very well shake up the geopolitical debate on shale energy and environmental degradation....
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Shale Boom in Europe Fades as Polish Wells Come Up Empty
While shale could help Poland lessen dependence on Russian supplies and cut its gas bill, a government proposal for a levy on production threatens to curtail investment. Europe’s best hope for a...
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US Business and Human Rights in Myanmar
Thein Sein, background center, and Obama, right, at the 2011 US-ASEAN Summit in Bali.(Photo: Washington Post) Last month the Obama administration eased financial and investment sanctions on Myanmar,...
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