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...fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part of the solution to the insatiable demands for more oil from the U.S. and fast-growing China and India. When the country returned to civilian rule under President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, it was pumping around 1.8 million bbl. a day. Daily capacity had expanded to 2.5 million bbl. before the recent attacks; Nigeria is now the sixth biggest oil exporter in the world. Western oil companies, eager for a supply from outside the Middle East, want...
...causing, oil companies have long maintained, most of the local environmental damage as a result). The gangsters have also extorted money by kidnapping oil workers and supplying "security" services in exchange for not attacking installations. In some ways, the situation has been exacerbated since Nigeria's return to civilian rule. According to local lawyers and international human-rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and the London-based Stakeholder Democracy Network, ruling-party politicians have armed local youths - many of them gang members - to ensure that votes go their way. Weapons flooded the region before the 2003 poll, which...
...fighting terrorism, the revelation has only fueled speculation as to what else the government may be doing. Attorney General Gonzales hinted in early April that the President may even have the power to order wiretaps on purely domestic phone calls without court approval. "I'm not going to rule it out," he told the House Judiciary Committee. Says Dale Carpenter, a constitutional-law expert at the University of Minnesota: "If the Administration claims literally bottomless Executive power to defend the country--and it has--then I think we can expect that there are many such secret programs out there that...
...easy stuff to see your way through," Wagoner says. The situation is complicated by the fact that Miller wants better terms for supply contracts with GM, while GM claims it pays too much already. The judge heard arguments over the labor contracts last week and is expected to rule this summer. GM CFO Fritz Henderson said, however, he expects to reach a settlement with Delphi and the U.A.W. within 60 days. GM, meanwhile, is stockpiling parts in case of a strike. "The consequences of our not addressing this effectively are big," says Wagoner. "Nobody wins with a long strike...
...agency. They have family and friends day, which is very well organized, and you visit the hall of heroes, if you want to show your family and friends around,? the agency veteran said. The CIA and Foggo?s attorney, Bill Hundley, declined comment today. ?As a rule, we do not publicly discuss who may or may not have visited Agency headquarters,? a CIA spokesperson said...