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Tag Archives: oil
Reflecting the Niger Delta: Tolu Ogunlesi on Tings Dey Happen
On 3 Quarks Daily Tolu Ogunlesi writes about American Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen. Dan Hoyle was inspired to write a one man play about Nigeria and the oil industry after being a Fulbright scholar in at the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Scenarios
Tagged art, Dan Hoyle, Nigeria, oil, theatre, Tings Dey Happen, Tolu Ogunlesi, video
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Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Edward Burtynsky’s Oil Alberta Oil Sands #6, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007. From Foreign Policy magazine’s website A decade of photographs exploring the impact of oil from the acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. The collection will be on display at … Continue reading
Posted in Visualization
Tagged art, Edward Burtynsky, oil, photography, Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery
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Photos of Oil’s dominion
Foreign Policy magazine’s September issue is focused on oil. The issue, Oil: the long goodbye, includes an article Scenes from the Violent Twilight of Oil by Peter Maass along with an accompanying photo essay.
Oil Pirates of Nigeria
From the BBC Fighting for Nigeria’s oil wealth: The Niger Delta, a region the size of England, is littered with violence and gas flares – the offshoot of oil extraction – whose roar and heat you can feel for hundreds … Continue reading
Posted in General, Inequality
Tagged black globalization, Niger Delta, Nigeria, oil, piracy, Port Harcourt
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Mapping US Oil Imports over Time
Rocky Mountain Institute has created an animated map of US oil imports from 1973 to the present using google maps. The map uses data from the Energy Information Agency’s to show oil flows from exporting countries in terms of volume … Continue reading