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Tullow Manager says Uganda PSAs are great, trust me

Written on 11 Feb, 2010 at 10:06 in Featured | viewed times | 4 Comments

02/11/2010 by JR Russell Image via Wikipedia Katherine Haywood in today’s Daily Monitor reports on the controversial and secret Production Sharing agreements in place between Heritage Oil and the Ugandan government. The April 2009 Ernst & Young report compiled for the Government of... (Continue reading)

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Uganda unable to find investors for power plant

Written on 9 Feb, 2010 at 17:17 in Featured | viewed times | 3 Comments

02/09/2010 by JR Russell BusinessWeek reports today that Uganda has decided it has no choice but to finance the building of a new hydropower plant themselves when efforts to attract investors failed. The Karuma hydropower plant will be a 500 watt plant... (Continue reading)

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On Forth.ie: Uganda, It’s not a democracy if you can’t prove it

Written on 6 Feb, 2010 at 5:42 in Featured, World | viewed times | 3 Comments

02/06/2010 by JR Russell I’ve written a piece over on Forth.ie that disusses the direction Uganda is taking with regards transparency, freedom of the press and the much discussed oil deals. The lack of transparency carries over as well into the lies... (Continue reading)

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Uganda Update: loving the Big Oil, locking up the press, and killing the gays

Written on 5 Feb, 2010 at 4:48 in Featured | viewed times | 6 Comments

As such, I'm going to cheat a little and submit an update post to cover the billion or so stories coming out of the busy country called Uganda. Most recently: CNOOC have gone into partnership with Tullow Oil, who have had... (Continue reading)

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Uganda approves Tullow Oil deal

Written on 4 Feb, 2010 at 3:47 in Featured | viewed times | 5 Comments

The Ugandan government has formally approved the deal for Tullow Oil to take over Heritage Oil's share of 2 blocks in the Lake Albert region. This decision ends the bid by Italian company, Eni, to buy out Heritage's share of the... (Continue reading)

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Ugandan court rules Oil contracts to be kept secret

Written on 3 Feb, 2010 at 12:44 in Featured | viewed times | 4 Comments

Kampala's senior magistrate has ruled that the Production Sharing Agreements that Uganda has with Tullow Oil, Heritage Oil, Dominium and Tower Resources will remain confidential.... (Continue reading)

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Tullow’s Uganda deal: Sweet for Tullow, Bitter for Uganda

Written on 1 Feb, 2010 at 4:12 in Featured, News, World | viewed times | 9 Comments

Image via Wikipedia The Ugandan government has trumpeted that the new oil deal with Tullow oil will net them 80% of the total revenue. A new analysis done by a group who managed to get a leaked copy of the closely... (Continue reading)

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Italy’s Eni and Ireland’s Tullow wait on Uganda Oil decision

Written on 31 Jan, 2010 at 8:36 in Featured | viewed times | 11 Comments

Image by Getty Images via Daylife By CanuckJacq The Ugandan government has withdrawn its  objection to Tullow Oil buying out Heritage Oil’s Lake Albert blocks after the company held talks with the president. Now Italian Oil company Eni, who had been favoured... (Continue reading)

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Why I’ll blog about Ugandan gays, and you can’t stop me

Written on 29 Jan, 2010 at 19:30 in Featured | viewed times | 8 Comments

Image by lez get real via Flickr by CanuckJacq Recently I’ve been writing a lot about Uganda’s proposed Anti-Homosexuality Bill. I’ve been accused of racism, of trying to subvert Uganda’s sovereignty, cultural imperialism, and of ignoring the will of the Ugandan people... (Continue reading)

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Harold Ford Mum On Uganda’s Kill The Gays Bill

Written on 29 Jan, 2010 at 17:25 in Commentary, Editorials, Featured, News, Organizations, People, Politics | viewed times | 7 Comments

1/29/10-by Paula Brooks Harold Ford Jr. may or may not be running for the Senate against Kirsten Gillibrand, but he certainly seems to be more than willing to sound like it. Of late he has been telling the LGBT community what a... (Continue reading)

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Uganda fears foreign investor backlash on anti-gay bill

Written on 28 Jan, 2010 at 11:23 in Featured | viewed times | 9 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Ugandan Minister of State for Investment, Aston Kajara, has said in an AP report that Uganda’s government fears a backlash from foreign investors if the Anti-Homosexuality Bill passes. Aston Kajara is also the minister who has been dealing with... (Continue reading)

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Is Tullow Oil a good investment?

Written on 27 Jan, 2010 at 18:01 in Featured | viewed times | 14 Comments

Image via Wikipedia Irish oil company, Tullow Oil (TLW.LN), is hoping for Ugandan Government approval on a deal that would leave them holding 100% of 3 licence blocks where oil was discovered by Lake Albert. To secure the funding they require... (Continue reading)

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Irish Oil, Bill Gates and Coca Cola spend spend spend in Anti-Gay Uganda

Written on 26 Jan, 2010 at 17:19 in Featured | viewed times | 26 Comments

Image via Wikipedia As I reported earlier, Irish-founded company Tullow Oil has just invested in Uganda’s oil interests to the tune of 1.35 billion USD. While this is news, it’s not exactly the kind of news I’d be reading normally. I’m... (Continue reading)

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Ugandans cash in as they move forward with Anti-Gay Bill

Written on 26 Jan, 2010 at 10:56 in Featured | viewed times | 7 Comments

While we hear about Uganda continuing to move forward with passing its Anti-Homosexuality Bill that would criminalise homosexuality, free speech for homosexuals and failure to report a homosexual with anything up to life in prison (formerly included the death penalty),... (Continue reading)

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