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...stake in Burma predates the 1997 sanctions, and thus is not a “new investment,” Chevron can keep its stake in the joint venture under federal law. In fact, the joint venture has continued to expand production in Burma since 2005. It added another wellhead platform last year, generating new natural gas revenues that enrich and entrench the country’s junta...
...intended to keep clear for grazing cattle and hunting deer. The law obliged him to give the drilling company access to his land, even though his compensation for the "surface disturbances" amounts to just $20,000. CMS and other drillers, on the other hand, were making serious money. Wellhead prices for gas were shooting up--from $1.75 per thousand cu. ft. in February 1999 to about $5.84 in February 2001. The boom...
Howard Rheingold, author, gardener and painter of his own shoes (moons, planets, stars, etc.), may be the wellhead of this social spirit. Certainly his site, Electric Minds www.minds.com) which opened last week, is the quintessence of online community. "The idea is that we will lead the transformation of the Web into a social Web," Rheingold says. Electric Minds is one-stop shopping for netniks who just like to commune--especially about the impact of technology on life. A "virtual community center" provides pointers to every online klatsch in cyberspace, from The Club for First Wives to alt.shoes.lesbians...
...Vergil's Georgics--was still very much a part of French art. Its greatest exponents, Nicolas Poussin and Lorrain, were French, and their work still cast a long shadow. But it existed alongside a newer appetite for natural vision, the direct recording of the facts of landscape, whose wellhead was the English artist John Constable...
...made up the drop in domestic production by supplying 43% of U.S. oil consumption. On the other hand, the public has not benefited from the drop in natural-gas prices, as pipeline companies and distributors have gobbled up the savings before the fuel reaches households. Though prices at the wellhead have tumbled from $2.66 to $1.16 since 1984, household users in Charlotte, N.C., still pay a rate of $6.14, only 51 cents less than they did 8 years...