Alan Russell

The situation that any nation which is dependent on external source of energy wants to avoid is one in which it becomes reliant on one source for all of its energy needs.  For reasons of national security, a nation has to have a range of energy feedstocks that can supply its needs and a...
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It is a fact that membership of the European Union has been mutually beneficial to both the UK and the EU. Nevertheless, in recent years, the dynamics have changed and the country is gradually being brought down as it loses its ability to carve out a sovereign socio-economic policy aimed at improving the lives...
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We have to navigate between the idealistic objective of having a world free of conflict and the realistic acceptance that there will always be conflict. At the same time we have to strive to avoid the catastrophe of widespread destruction and loss of life through states driven by ideology – political or religious, rather...
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  Now more than at any time in the past, it is essential that OPEC’s objectives of ‘steady income’ and ‘fair return’ are achieved for a secure energy future.  Love it or loathe it the world needs oil to function.  The reserves of easily accessible crude on land are being depleted rapidly and have...
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