RIGHTS:   Social Setbacks as Big Oil Expands Pipelines
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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The boom in Gulf of Mexico oil  exploration since the 1970s made New Orleans a hub of the U.S.  energy industry, but the devastation caused by Hurricane  Katrina in 2005 has led some oil companies to move out, a  mini-exodus that could grow.
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As locals, volunteers, and soldiers continue to clean a week after a 10,000-ton spill, some wonder if a faster government response could have mitigated the disaster.
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PORT FOURCHON, La. - U.S. energy security depends as much on a 17-mile-long, sea-level stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 as on any pipeline, and the state needs more federal help to improve and protect it, local officials said Monday.
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The absolute price of oil has reached a new high. The growth     of the economies in China, India and the rest of Asia are increasing the demand     for oil. There are production problems in Venezuela (strikes and sabotage), Norway (strikes), Nigeria (civil war), Iraq (sabotage) and Russia (internal politics). Hurricane Ivan and other hurricanes this year disrupted     production in the Gulf of Mexico and transportation of oil in the Atlantic.     In the next decade Eastern Europe will also require more oil to feed its growing economies. The price of crude oil has led to     prices of above $55 a barrel and lifted heating oil to a record and     natural gas to a 20-month high. Though prices may eventually fall a bit, they are likely to remain higher than we were once     accustomed.    However, all is not gloom and doom.
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It appears that yet another muscular government is having its way with Western oil companies.
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NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- TomÃÂ¡s Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call Block 1AB.
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By Penix, Matthew  Oil and gas infrastructure was left mangled when Hurricane Katrina rambled through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. Vast amounts of work needed to be done by engineering firms already short on employees.
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Record-setting natural gas and oil prices are teaming up to create a winter of discontent for many households. With crude oil breaking $50 a barrel and continuing to climb, it is time to consider how to offset
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By Scott Miller, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  May 26--BLOOMINGTON -- Opponents of a proposed crude-oil pipeline in Central Illinois face a costly uphill battle.   Mark McCormick of Woodstock knows.
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The Middle Kingdom can't find enough oil to meet booming domestic demandÂand the world is paying the price at the pump
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - A federal judge issued a   preliminary ruling on Thursday that temporarily blocks the U.S.   administration's plan to allow oil development in the sensitive   wetlands near vast Teshekpuk Lake in Arctic Alaska.
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The U.S. Congress comes back to town  next week to sift through the pieces of the latest oil patch  disaster -- pipeline corrosion that threatened to shut down the  giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska.
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The Department of Energy issues a report detailing how continuing the current energy policy will increase our oil dependence for decades to come. In Autopia.
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Aida Edemariam on how the world's biggest oil rush is tearing apart a frontier town in Alberta and its people
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Energy company Harvest Natural Resources encounters problems in Venezuela.
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Lease sales could produce 15 billion barrels of oil, but environmentalists say drilling would threaten already melting habitat.