It is starting to look obvious that the administration doesn't want oil exploration and extraction at home while it is promoting the same exploration and extraction elsewhere -- specifically Brazil and New Guinea. "The Bureau of Ocean Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has assigned only six drilling engineers to process all permit applications pending in the Gulf of Mexico. While Michael Bromwich bemoans a lack of the staff necessary to speed up the process, he's sending his staffers to Papua New Guinea to advise its officials on ways to develop the country's offshore drilling infrastructure. A significant portion of the agency's budget is covered by fees, royalties, taxes, and rents from energy production, so curtailing drilling closes off cash flow, too.
Others have commented on Obama's generosity regarding Brazil's oil wealth and how those actions might help George Soros.
- But focus should now turn towards the exotic land of New Guinea.
- third-largest stock holding in his hedge fund.
- in the wake of its nuclear energy problems.
- The nightmare for short-sellers is when the price of the stock moves contrary to what they hoped, and it moves up. Then the pain and bloodletting starts.
- They laugh all the way to the bank, as the shorts lie bloodied, bruised, and defeated, all but begging for mercy.
- say, the United States of America.
- picking favorites and InterOil is one of them.
- of all places, New Guinea?
- Why aren't the Chinese paying to develop New Guinea's energy wealth?
- never has been on the agenda of Barack Obama.
Reference, 9/28/10, "Tamminen: Want Dinner with Leonardo DiCaprio and George Soros?" CNBC contributor
"In New York last week for the Clinton Global Initiative and United Nations Week, I attended a small dinner party late one night that featured film star Leonardo DiCaprio, billionaire philanthropist/investor George Soros, the President of the central African nation of Gabon and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, among others. What brought this eclectic group together? The economics of climate change."...
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11/7/10, "PNG: Foreign companies profiting from carbon scams" Ash Pemberton
"The government of Papua New Guinea has been awarded Greenpeace’s “Golden Chainsaw” award in response to its corrupt, anti-environment forestry policies.
In a report released on October 25, the environmental advocacy organisation said PNG should not be allowed to take part in the controversial Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon trading program until “safeguards for biodiversity and indigenous and landowners’ rights and ending the corruption and illegal logging” are in place.
Greenpeace anti-logging campaigner Sam Moko said: “The government of PNG is attempting to get its hands on billions of dollars of international REDD funding. But instead of protecting rainforests at home, they are corruptly approving widespread logging and denying the rights of indigenous people who own the land.”
Greenpeace has accused the PNG government of playing a spoiling role during negotiations on REDD at the October United Nations climate meeting in Tianjin, China. The organisation’s claims are supported by an October 7 AAP article that reported representatives from PNG had argued for less scrutiny on the use of REDD funds.
The aim of the Tianjin talks was to set a framework for a UN-regulated REDD scheme for forest-related carbon trading. Similar negotiations took place at the December 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, but ultimately failed. The Tianjin REDD meetings likewise ended in farce after many hours spent debating the inclusion of civil society and indigenous groups in the program, the Center for People and Forests website said on October 7.
The criticisms levelled at the PNG government of PNG by Greenpeace are valid. However, it fails to recognise the causes of the PNG government’s behaviour.
PNG’s long history of corruption is closely tied to the interests of foreign corporations, including logging interests, and therefore its attitude to REDD is the logical behaviour of a corrupt regime operating in a system set up to enrich First World capitalists.
However, even without corruption and lack of regulation, the environmental benefits of REDD are dubious. Carbon trading schemes, including REDD, have been criticised for essentially privatising forests and allowing polluters in rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions.
Such schemes also have a secondary effect of allowing capitalists to cash in on the environmental crisis by speculating on the price of carbon."
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