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Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America		08 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Well Oil Be Damned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pursues energy treaties in South America Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is on a four-nation swing through South America this week, using his country's oil riches to win friends and influence people. Yesterday, Chavez signed an "energy security treaty" with Nestor Kirchner, the president of Argentina; he will continue o ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, international politics, natural gas, news, Venezuela (all these topics)

A Ruckus in Caracas ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips leave Venezuela over oil dispute		27 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
A Ruckus in Caracas ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips leave Venezuela over oil dispute Say what you will about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the guy knows how to keep things interesting. Tired of multinational oil companies having all the fun in his resource-rich country, he has pushed for state control of the Orinoco Belt, the largest energy reserve in the Western Hemisphere; the area holds an estimat ...
Topics: Big Oil, energy, news, oil and gas drilling, Venezuela (all these topics)

Chavez on food vs. fuel Oil diplomat or man of the people?	Erik Hoffner	07 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On the defensive after George Bush and Lula da Silva of Brazil started getting friendly over ethanol, Hugo Chavez has now backed away from plans for building a massive array of 29 ethanol plants. His rationale tears a page from the nascent biofuel backlash movement, saying that land should be used to feed people, not to fill 'rich people's cars.' As with most things Chavez, this is probably largely about politics and somewhat about people: he doesn't want to be outf ...
Topics: biofuels, energy, Venezuela (all these topics)

You Go, Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation		06 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
You Go, Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation The campaign to fight climate change and reduce global oil use seems to have an unlikely new champion: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In a country where car salesfolk do a healthy business and gasoline is subsidized to 12 cents a gallon -- that's about $3 to fill an SUV -- Chavez's environmental hype has been knocked as rhetoric. But at the very ...
Topics: news, Venezuela, water pollution (all these topics)

The Station Agent Chicago Tribune series traces a gasoline fill-up to its source		01 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Station Agent Chicago Tribune series traces a gasoline fill-up to its source Told that tracking gasoline from a single gas station back to its sources was impossible, reporter Paul Salopek did it anyway. In compiling a multimedia series for the Chicago Tribune, Salopek sourced gas dispensed at a Marathon station in South Elgin, Ill., to the Gulf Coast, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iraq. He then ...
Topics: business, energy, Illinois, Iraq, news, Nigeria, Venezuela (all these topics)

Chavez makes a play New scheme for OPEC would make Venezuela's oil reserves world's largest	David Roberts	05 Apr 2006	Gristmill
There's some big stuff happening in Venezuela these days. In an interview with the BBC, President Hugo Chavez announced a bid that could change the entire world oil situation. He wants OPEC to set its long-term oil target price at $50/barrel. Why? At $50, large portions of Venezuela's copious heavy crude in the Orinoco Tar Sands become economically viable, and Venezuela's official oil reserves automatically skyrocket to 312 billion barrels -- surpassing Saudi Arabia's ...
Topics: international politics, oil, oil sands, Venezuela (all these topics)

His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American Some 738,000 acres of pristine rainforest in southern Chile will get official billing as a nature sanctuary today, thanks to a deal between U.S. tycoon Doug Tompkins and the Chilean government. Tompkins, cofounder of the sportswear company Esp ...
Topics: Chile, energy, international government agencies, land stewardship, mining and drilling, rainforests, Venezuela (all these topics)

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish New Fish Species Discovered in Venezuela		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish New Fish Species Discovered in Venezuela In an era of mass extinction, it's always nice to hear about the discovery of new species. So the members of an expedition sponsored by Conservation International were thrilled to discover 10 new fish species in Venezuela's Upper Caura River. Of the 10 new species, only one has been desc ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Venezuela (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		05 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna In other marine news, a new report released by the federal government has found that dolphin populations in the Pacific Ocean are failing to recover from years of tuna fishing, and that some 3,000 dolphins are still killed by tuna boats every year. The report, by the U.S. Commerce Department ...
Topics: Colombia, Department of Commerce, international government agencies, marine life, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Southwest, United States, Venezuela (all these topics)

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