The Caspian Sea is drying up - heading the same way as the nearby Aral Sea, which is a mere wisp of its former self.
Conservation efforts are hampered by lack of cooperation between the five countries that surround it, and time to save it is running out...
https://www.dw.com/en/the-sea-that-is-vanishing-in-real-time/a-76813409
Australian taxpayers take on risk for major oil and gas projects
By Gareth Hutchens
Australian governments take on risk to get major resource projects up and running, so why don't they take an equity stake?
#OilandGas #NaturalResources #MiningandMetalsIndustry #MiningEnvironmentalIssues #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalGovernment #IndigenousCulture #GovernmentandPolitics #GarethHutchens
Gas vs beer: How Pocock's 57 seconds caused the government a tax headache
By Evelyn Manfield
David Pocock was struggling to find cut-through on the issue of gas taxes, but then a question about beer excise sparked a social media war of words.
#FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #NaturalResources #OilandGas #Tax #Senate #BusinessandIndustryRegulation #EvelynManfield
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From the Pathology of Plenty to Carbon Metastasis
Lys Kulamadayil's The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law (TPP) offers a fundamental reconstruction of how international law is constitutive of – rather than merely responsive to – the uneven distribution of both the benefits and harms of natural resource extraction. The book demonstrates th
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/from-the-pathology-of-plenty-to-carbon-metastasis/
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Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Resource Wealth
This piece engages with Lys Kulamadayil’s analysis of the so-called “pathology of plenty” by focusing on two aspects that emerge as particularly significant in the governance of natural resources. On the one hand, it examines the role of extractive contracts and the challenges raised by their opacity and li
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/unveiling-hidden-challenges-of-resource-wealth/
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Lys Kulamadayil, The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law
Lys Kulamadayil’s The Pathology of Plenty gives a critical account of the role of international law in governing natural resources, primarily those of the Global South. While readers might be familiar with various existing accounts of the issue of p
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