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Delta Sigh
American filmmakers arrested in Niger Delta |
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15 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 4:58 PM on 15 Apr 2008 Four Americans working on the documentary Sweet Crude, about the impact of the petroleum industry on the economy and environment of the Niger Delta, were arrested in Nigeria this weekend and are still being detained. A Nigerian man accompanying them was also seized. Nigeria is Africa's largest oil exporter and the fourth-largest exporter to the United States, and its petroleum industry is infamous for pollut ... |
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| Topics: energy, insanity, movies, news, Nigeria, oil (all these topics) |
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More oil than man
Is There Will Be Blood a dramatization of peak oil? |
Kit Stolz |
25 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In the realm of art, no interpretation of a work can be final, but intriguing hints from no less than writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson suggest that the stunning movie There Will Be Blood is actually a story not about the rise and fall of a man so much as the rise and fall of a commodity: oil. Of course, even the intentions of the creators -- and in the case of There Will Be Blood, that means principally writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson, star Daniel Day-Lewi ... |
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| Topics: energy, movies, oil (all these topics) |
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There will be oil
Oscar-nominated film depicts oil production realistically |
Joseph Romm |
20 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Anyone interested in oil should see There Will Be Blood, since it is a great film that tells a fascinating and detailed story of the early days of the oil industry in California. Okay, it's Oscar week. I try to see all the Best Picture nominees, which is much tougher now that I have a one-year-old daughter. I missed Atonement [so far], but my wife read the book, so half credit. And lord knows after seeing No Country for Old Men, I don't need to see another down ... |
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| Topics: energy, movies, oil (all these topics) |
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What a Way to Go
A review of a new doomer cult classic |
JMG |
13 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Some years ago I was alerted to the problem of peak oil by a friend from Bellingham, Wash., way up in the upper left corner of the continental U.S. A nuclear physicist and astronomer, the smartest guy I know, and no doubt someone who uses the serial comma, he had this to say about a new movie called What a Way to Go: Life at the end of empire:Before I committed the college to spend $500 for the viewing, I watched a copy a friend had purchased - all by myself. It was so powerful ... |
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On the unity between peak oil and climate destabilization
A reality TV show that will knock your socks off |
JMG |
03 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Crude: a great overview of how, when, where, and why oil is obtained, and a fascinating look at what happens when you burn a bunch of it real fast. Think The End of Suburbia meets An Inconvenient Truth. |
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| Topics: oil, energy, movies (all these topics) |
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Syriana
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Chris Schults |
18 Nov 2005 |
Gristmill |
| Damn, this looks like a good movie. From IMDB: From writer/director Stephen Gaghan, winner of the Best Screenplay Academy Award for Traffic, comes Syriana, a political thriller that unfolds against the intrigue of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film's multiple storylines weave together to illuminate the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and ... |
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