Turkey: Gas pipeline deal moves a step closer ... Is it time for energy change

We always look at the Muslim world and we can clearly see that they are being controlled - and very much treated like infants when it comes to information from the outside world - as well as inside of their countries - their press is not free, their internet is heavily restricted and also books and movies are censored - by their so called higher religious authorities :-)

But what is not talked about is how similar we are to the Muslim world when it comes to areas of advanced technology - in the energy field. Here there is good evidence to show that we are also being restricted and treated like children. With the advances in computing - it is strange that energy technology - such as locomotion - and other forms of power generation have virtually stood still.

The result is that we are in conflicts with people in the Middle East - largely societies with little in the way of advanced technologies. It is like the thirteen year old fighting with the five year old - in this case it is in order that a few in the advanced societies (ours) can continue to make profits.

Let's just go to what is known - a few years ago the major car companies rounded up and destroyed (crushed despite protests) all of the electric cars in production - brand new cars or virtually ones. But while the oil lobby that would have been behind this move - made record profits - these car makers found that they were almost sent to the wall - having to beg their respective governments for money just to remain operational.

I am personally shocked at where we are with energy - even nuclear is a glorified steam engine.

The conflict with the Islamic world is partly through the fact that we have met up with a people who are more interested in spreading their religion - than developing new technology - I would hardly think that if Japan had the oil - we would be having these problems. And we so admire Japan's efforts in areas of technology.

This Turkish pipeline is part of this geo-political game - that the EU is being asked to take Turkey as a member partly because of the pipeline - a 1000 year decision - accession already looks like a forced marriage - when shortly after someone could say - its now 'okay' to release this water burning or magnetic technology or some other helpful invention and what would it have all been for?

Like Muslims need freedom from this religious tyranny - we need freedom - to do with energy like we have done with computing. Likewise - we don't want to live under Muslim tyranny and neither should we be forced to live in a backward state - where we are reduced to slaves under this archaic and costly energy system.

The project is backed by several European Union states and the United States.

Ankara, 3 July (AKI) - A key international agreement to approve Turkey's Nabucco natural gas pipeline is expected to be signed in the country's capital, Ankara, in two weeks, European Union officials said on Friday. The 3,300-kilometre pipeline, designed to relieve European dependence on Russian gas, is expected to bring Caspian and Middle East (such as Iran's) gas to Europe as early as 2014.

But the project has been delayed due to a lack of supplies and conflict among stakeholders.

A firm transit agreement due to be signed on 13 July could increase competition between Nabucco and a rival Russian pipeline, allowing the EU-backed project to start work on new accords to enable firms to buy up portions of the pipeline's 31 billion cubic metre capacity.

"On July 13, the intergovernmental accord on Nabucco will be signed in Turkey," Romanian economy minister Adriean Videanu told reporters from Azerbaijan where he is on a two-day visit.

The European Union confirmed it had received an invitation to the 13 July signing ceremony.

"I can confirm that the commission has received an invitation to the signing ceremony of the intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco pipeline in Ankara," a European Commission spokesman told the media.

The signing of the transit agreement was delayed by demands from Turkey, which has few hydrocarbon resources of its own, that it use 15 percent of Nabucco's 31 billion cubic metre capacity for its domestic usage or for export.

Videanu said Turkey's "15 percent issue" was now solved, but gave no details.

The EU executive did not comment on whether the issue had been resolved and the commission spokesman declined to provide details about the agreement, saying only that they would be made public once the agreement between the EU nations involved and Turkey was signed.

The reports came after Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters in Ankara after a recent trip to Russia that the country was technically close to completing negotiations in the Nabucco project.

The gas pipeline project is in direct competition with Russia’s rival South Stream project, developed by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom and Italy’s energy giant Eni, designed to channel Russian gas through Bulgaria to Western Europe under the Black Sea.

The Nabucco pipeline will transport natural gas from Turkey to Austria, via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.

It will run from Erzurum in Turkey to Baumgarten an der March, a major natural gas hub in Austria.

The project is backed by several European Union states and the United States.