[IPSM] announcing series "Apartheid Oil under way at the media co-op

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Apartheid Oil?
Announcing a new Media Co-op Series

1.
You may have heard of "Dirty Oil", "Ethical Oil", "Bloody Oil" or even
"Conflict Oil"-- but have you heard of Apartheid Oil? This is the question
that Edmonton based writer and activist Macdonald Stainsby has been asking
himself since he visited the Middle East and Northern Africa earlier this
year.

In a multi-part part series to be release over the next two weeks,
Stainsby examines key shifts in technology and politics that could change
the face of oil extraction in Israel/Palestine, Jordan and Morocco. As an
introduction to the series, The Media Co-op had a chance to talk with
Stainsby about what he learned on his visit, and through the writing
process.

full interview & introduction:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/apartheid-oil/8846

2.
Apartheid Oil: Will Israel use shale to become a regional & global energy
superpower?

JERUSALEM-- Major offshore gas strikes in 2009 and 2010 may soon convert
converted Israel into a gas exporting country with self-sufficient energy.
But perhaps more important than the gas under the sea is the mock crude
trapped in husk dry sands and rock hard shale, reserves which could push
Israel into the upper echelons of recoverable oil on the planet. Israel
has long had a weakness economically and militarily because of their
reliance on others for energy supplies.

full story:
www.mediacoop.ca/story/apartheid-oil/8906

3.
Oil in the Desert
Will water be sacrificed to oil in Jordan?

by Macdonald Stainsby

AMMAN, Jordan--In March of 2011, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan jumped
headlong into unconventional oil extraction, and signed a deal with Karak
International Oil (KIO), a subsidiary of Jordan Energy and Mining Limited
(JEML--a British company) for the commercial mining of oil shale
approximately one hour’s drive from the capital of Amman. Unlike most
countries in the region, if you fill up your gas tank in Jordan, you are
using imported oil— but the Kingdom is touting a future when extreme
extraction will change that, and soon...

Full story:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/oil-desert/8967

Several more articles to appear at the media co-op. Check back over the
next while.

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Macdonald Stainsby
Co-ordinator,
http://oilsandstruth.org
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