The small, palm-fringed fishing town of Palma was meant to become a symbol of Mozambique’s glittering future, transformed by one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas projects. But construction has fallen far behind schedule and the town’s fate is uncertain after gas prices fell and the government became engulfed in a $2 billion debt … Read more
Italy, Israel, Greece and Cyprus pledged Monday to move ahead with the world’s longest undersea gas pipeline from the eastern Mediterranean to southern Europe, with support from the European Union. If carried out as planned, the long-discussed $6.2 billion pipeline would take gas from Israel and Cyprus’s recently discovered offshore gas reserves to Europe and … Read more
No doubt the vetting was the best I have ever seen especially given the composure, preparedness and depth of answers given by the nominee to many questions posed to him by the very astute Minority Chief Whip and Minority Leader. It was rather disappointing that the Chairman of the vetting committee had exercised his autocratic … Read more