A Look at The Petrostate

When the Petrodollars Run Out - Foreign Policy

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/ Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:01:47 -0700
What will this mean for the future of the petrostates? In many of them, the governments are dependent on revenues from oil and gas. Two years ago, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a paper on budgeting with ...
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Despite Redford's Departure, the Petro State Marches On ...

http://thetyee.ca/BCBlogs/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 14:38:00 -0700
The media seems stunned: why would the premier, who in 2012 beat the odds and won a majority government, only serve half her term? But personal vanities and the difficult political chore of running a petro state ruled by ...
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Andrew Nikiforuk--LNG and Petro State Politics-Video ...

http://richardhughes.ca/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:32:04 -0700
Andrew Nikiforuk–LNG and Petro State Politics-Video. By Richard Hughes, on October 2nd, 2014. Richard Hughes-Political Blogger. Like so many of you my concern about this runaway climate change train wreck that our politicians are ...

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