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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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