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Platts: Russian Gas Giant Mines U.S. Energy Data
Russia’s state-owned natural gas company says the U.S. shale-gas boom is economically unsustainable — and it’s buttressing its claim with financial data collected by an American consulting firm located less than 20 miles from the White House. Moscow-based Gazprom, the world’s largest gas company, is working with Pace Global Energy Services, a consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia, to analyze how much money U.S. gas companies are spending on hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Gazprom, citing the Virginia company’s data, says the true costs of U.S. shale-gas production are upwards of 150% higher than the revenues its practitioners have been reaping in the last few years. Gazprom says this will ultimately lead to the demise of fracking-based shale-gas drilling in the US and other countries that are considering adopting it. But Gazprom’s critics say the company and its unlikely Washington-area ally are spreading “myths and misconceptions” about the U.S.-led shale-gas gas boom so that European and Asian countries will not develop their own shale plays, and will instead continue to buy conventional Russian gas.
Tags: Oil; gas; natural resources; fraud; oil wells
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Plunder in the Pacific
"Plunder in the Pacific," an eight-country investigation, revealed how Asian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated what was once one of the world’s great fish stocks. Jack mackerel in the South Pacific has decreased from around 30 million tons to less than three tons in just two decades. We found that national interests and geopolitical rivalry for six years blocked efforts to ratify a regional fisheries management organization that could impose binding regulations to rescue jack mackerel from further collapse. Bound only by voluntary restrictions, fleets competed in what amounted to a free-for-all in no man’s water.
Tags: Pacific; ocean resources; fisheries
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Glamour Beasts: The dark side of elephant captivity
The zoo industry claims that elephants are thriving inside U.S. zoos. But that’s not true. It never has been. The Times found that elephants are dying out inside zoos. For every elephant born, on average two others die. Just 288 elephants are left inside 78 accredited U.S. zoos. Captive elephants may be demographically extinct within 50 years – there won’t be enough females left to breed. The Times conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis of 390 elephant fatalities for the past 50 years. In a desperate race to make more baby elephants, Seattle’s Woodland Park has tried to artificially inseminate their Asian elephant, Chai, at least 112 times, sometimes adopting crude and reckless procedures. As nearly two dozen zoos have shutdown or plan to close elephant exhibits, nonprofit sanctuaries with thousands of acres represent one option for retired or unwanted elephants. But a zoo industry trade group is fighting a bitter battle to thwart sanctuaries and punish zoos that give up their elephants.
Tags: zoo; elephants; zoo industry
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"The IMF & 'Trojan Horse': Secret U.S. Documents on the Korean Financial Crisis"
After years of reporting, the KBS was able to obtain secret documents regarding the "Korean financial crisis" that were "produced by the U.S. Treasury, State Department and CIA." An analysis of the documents examines how "key decisions were made" as well as the intent in regard to the "emergency situation" of the financial crisis.
Tags: Asian Monetary Fund; IMF; Korean financial crisis; Seoul; Lim Chang-yuel; Vice-Minister of Finance; Deputy Prime Minister for Economy of Korea
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Power Failure; Food Fight
"Working class immigrant reidents are forced to evacuate thgeir apartments due to an electircal fire- an incident which revelas unsafe wiring at their nonprofit-run building."
Tags: Ali Algahim; Tenderloin; Asian Inc.; Danny Dang; Michael Can
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Paper Pushers
During the 2003 election Mayor Richard M. Daley won by reaching out to all corners of Chicago: white to black, Latin to Asian citizens. Before the election took place, he had people mostly of white and Latin descent along with many city workers petition his signatures, which led to his victory.
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Central Asia: Trouble in Fergana Valley
Gannon examines the influence of religion on the Central Asian region known as the Fergana Valley. The stories also examined how repressive tactics that Uzbekistan used contributed to the sense of desperation in the poverty stricken area. Gannon also profiled the Akramis and their community connections.
Tags: Fergana Valley; religion; Uzvwkistan; Akramis; Andijan
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Jenkins Photo Proof of Kidnapping?
The web report address the practice in North Korea of kidnapping citizens of other Asian nations and holding them against their will in North Korea. The story focuses on the case of a Thai woman.
Tags: North Korea; espionage; Thailand; Anocha Panjoy; Kidnapping; Robert Jenkins
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Damming the Angry River
The reporters, students at the University of California, Berkeley, investigated the effort to stop the Chinese government from building 13 dams along the NU River as part of that nation's quest for energy. Originally broadcast on KTSF, a TV station broadcasting in Cantonese and Mandarin that serves the Northern California Asian communities
Tags: Environment; hydroelectricity; China; Nu River; energy; dams
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"Segregation Persists in NY"
A study of racial breakdown of census data by voting tract shows that racial shifts are evident in the city area.