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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers--that's...
3) Eclipse
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English
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The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case--the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murdering three PetroGlobal workers.
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Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A five-alarm documentary that explores the shocking realities of the impending oil crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maverick energy experts and thinkers, they debunk the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb and more.
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against a backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world.
7) Blowout
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Series
Nate Osborne and Ashley Borden volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When a top-secret research team is hired to develop a clean energy source to minimize America's dependence on foreign oil, Sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden investigate a saboteur's attack on the experimental power station.
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