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November 27, 2014
By Михаил Соколов
Category Archives: Energy Security
The Case for Keystone XL
Wall Street Journal
November 27, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The most important change needed for transporting crude throughout North America is the approval and construction of the fourth phase of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL is an existing transnational network segmented into phases that cross Canada and the U.S. The first phase travels through the provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba before traveling to Steele City from north to south and from Alberta to Nebraska and continue to Illinois, Oklahoma, and Texas.
WHY ‘ENERGY INDEPENDENCE’ SOUNDS BETTER THAN IT IS
The Wall Street Journal
November 26, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
“Energy independence” has become a buzzword too closely associated with U.S. neo-isolationism. It is true that calorie by calorie, the U.S. can become “energy independent,” especially if it fully taps its massive fossil-fuel resources.
THE ABSURD GRIDLOCK OVER SPENT FUEL
The Wall Street Journal
November 25, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The most difficult challenge to American civilian nuclear energy is spent fuel.
How East-West Competition Turned Balkan Energy into a Geopolitical Football
Journal of Energy Security
November 20, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
Europe’s dependency on Russian gas, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, has become a major strategic liability for the West. This is especially true as the war in Eastern Ukraine has brought relations between Moscow and Brussels as well as many of the European capitals to new lows.
The Astronomic Costs of Reversing Climate Change
The Wall Street Journal – The Experts October 3, 2014 By Dr. Ariel Cohen ARIEL COHEN: While energy experts love to discuss climate change, they often disregard the actual costs and benefits of this phenomenon. As political violence rises globally, addressing, let alone reversing, climate change, is becoming increasingly challenging. Whether climate change is man-made
Let’s Open Federal Lands for Energy Exploration
If I could pass one energy policy, what would it be?
I would open federal lands and offshore acreage for hydrocarbon prospecting.
OBAMA INACTION ON UKRAINE COULD IMPEDE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
The Washington Times September 1, 2014 By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro Ariel Cohen, director of the Center for Energy Natural Resources and Geopolitics at the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, said the situation “looks like a disaster for Ukraine, but more importantly, it looks like a disaster for the cause of nonproliferation. “This is
ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN: ON THE BRINK OF WAR?
The National Interest
August 7, 2014
By Dr. Ariel Cohen
The messy business of post-imperial disintegration is not over. The eruption of Russian-Ukrainian hostilities is not the only case in point. The former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan are at it again, too.
THE ISLAMIC STATE: BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID
OilPrice.com
July 15, 2014
By Claude Salhani
If you think the oil industry is already too powerful, imagine that power under the control of already powerful terrorists whose aim is political supremacy over multiple territories.