Stock footage available from Christian Aid – Material recorded in Luanda, Angola March 25 May 3 2003
Please contact film archivist, Robin Prime for more details: rprime@christian-aid.org
Angola in southwest Africa is about the size of Germany and France combined, but with a fraction of the population, just 12 million people. Over a third live in the capital Luanda. After a protracted and brutal war, Angola won independence from Portugal in 1975. Since then the country has been torn apart by almost continuous civil war – 27 years of it. In April 2002 the warring sides finally signed peace accords, and Angolans could at last look forward to rebuilding their country in peace.
But they still face enormous problems. Angola is one of the ten poorest countries in the world, where according to UN figures, 82% of people live on less than a dollar a day. And yet its a country with enormous oil wealth, whose government earns more than five billion dollars a year in oil revenues.
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At a townhall meeting in May, Senator John McCain was cool to the idea of ending a federal moratorium on drilling offshore, but he now fully endorses removing federal restrictions on the drilling practice.
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On June 17, API and 15 labor unions announced their partnership to create the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Labor-Management Committee, an organization established to preserve and create jobs by promoting domestic oil and natural gas production. The committee plans to launch a communications effort aimed at providing information about legislation that affects the exploration and processing of oil and natural gas.
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Legendary Texas oilman and chair of BP Capital, T. Boone Pickens, holds an impromptu video question and answer session at ASPO Houston with Global Public Media’s Julian Darley and other journalists. Pickens talks about the peaking of world oil production, which he says occurred in 2006. View the entire video interview at GlobalPublicMedia.com
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March 17 (Bloomberg) — Cornelia Meyer, an independent oil analyst, talks about increased Iraqi oil production coming on stream and its effect on OPEC quotas.
Meyer also discusses the outlook for oil prices. She speaks with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua at the meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna.
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March 17 (Bloomberg) — Bill Farren-Price, chief executive officer of Petroleum Policy Intelligence, talks with Bloomberg’s Francine Lacqua about OPEC oil production levels.
Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Vienna today, agreed for the fifth time since 2008 to keep production limits unchanged. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Die-in and protest at the Royal Bank of Canada RBC Centre Branch in London, Ontario, Canada.
Raw & unedited.
The Tar Sands “Gigaproject” is the largest industrial project in human history and likely also the most destructive. The tar sands mining procedure releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production and is slated to become the single largest industrial contributor in North America to Climate Change.
The tar sands are already slated to be the cause of up to the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet behind the Amazon Rainforest Basin. Currently approved projects will see 3 million barrels of tar sands mock crude produced daily by 2018; for each barrel of oil up to as high as five barrels of water are used.
Since 2007 RBC Royal Bank Canada – has backed more than $16.9 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canadas carbon emissions.
Human health in many communities has seriously taken a turn for the worse with many causes alleged to be from tar sands production. Tar sands production has led to many serious social issues throughout Alberta, from housing crises to the vast expansion of temporary foreign worker programs that racialize and exploit so-called non-citizens. Infrastructure from pipelines to refineries to super tanker oil traffic on the seas crosses the continent in all directions to all three major oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.
The mock oil produced primarily is consumed in the United States and helps to subsidize continued wars of aggression against other oil producing nations such as Iraq, Venezuela and Iran.
Royal Bank of Canada
The Royal Bank of Canada (Banque Royale du Canada in French) is Canada’s largest company.[1] It has over 1,400 branches across Canada, over 70,000 full-and part-time employees worldwide, and offices in over 34 countries.
SNAPSHOT:
Number of employees worldwide: 60,858
Chief executive officer: Gordon Nixon
Website: http://www.rbc.com/
Global Fortune 500 rank: 211
Total revenue: 20.6 billion
Find out more and take action:
http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.ienearth.org/nativeenergy.html
http://ran.org/campaigns/freedom_from_oil/spotlight/tar_sands/
http://climatefriendlybanking.org/
http://www.corpwatch.org
Our objective is to save humanity and not just half of humanity. We are here to save mother earth. Our objective is to reduce climate change to [under] 1°C. [above this] many islands will disappear and Africa will suffer a holocaust. The real cause of climate change is the capitalist system. If we want to save the earth then we must end that economic model. Capitalism wants to address climate change with carbon markets. We denounce those markets and the countries which [promote them]. It’s time to stop making money from the disgrace that they have perpetrated.”
- Evo Morales, December 16th, 2010, Copenhagen Climate Summit
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More offshore crane work taking place.
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The video regards a skill shortage in the global oil & gas industry and how to overcome it by using e-learning courses from Abhisam Software. Visit http://www.abhisam.com/products.htm for details
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March 15 (Bloomberg) — Manouchehr Takin, an analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies, talks about the sustainability of oil prices and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’s production levels.
Takin also discusses Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s oil find at the Piracuca field in Brazil’s Santos Basin. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Maryam Nemazee and Rishaad Salamat in London.
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