Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Speaking of impending resource crises...

China lands new oil assets in Sudan deal despite Darfour crisis

LONDON — China's strategic partnership with Sudan has yielded a new deal to develop offshore oil in a blow to international efforts to block financing for the ongoing conflict in Darfour.

The state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. has been awarded a contract to develop a Sudanese offshore oil block with Indonesia's PT Pertamina.

The accord, which includes exploration and development, was signed on June 28 in Khartoum, Middle East Newsline reported.

On July 2, the China Petroleum Daily reported that the exploration phase would last six years. CNPC would also be granted a 20-year concession for future oil production.

The contract was disclosed amid an international effort to block foreign companies from developing Sudan's oil sector.

Western governments have asserted that Sudan was using oil revenues to finance the war in Darfour.

Since Sudan’s government started the ethnic cleansing of its own people in 2003, at least 200,000 have died and more than two million have become displaced. Despite multiple campaigns of concern by the international community, the Islamic rulers in Khartoum have effectively blocked serious UN peacekeeping efforts to stem the violence.

Think they are worried about Soros's Human Rights Watch? Amnesty International? They NEED that fuel to make energy and drive their economy. That's it. Any conscience in any nation will be dulled by that need given time.

We have to move past fossil fuels in america. We will never conserve our way to prosperity, and political freedom on the international side by riding bicycles in the winter and freezing in the dark.

What's DARPA's budget at major universities in the USA for this?

Someone IS going to solve this riddle, and it had better be us.

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