Issue Papers
Many of East Timor's concerns discussed in this CD are similar to those facing other countries. Here are some papers on local and global issues. Within each topic, the listings are in chronological order.
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Timor-Leste-specific
| ESCAP/UNDP 2002 study Natural and Mineral Resources Inventory, Policy and Development Strategy: East Timor. Executive Summary. We also include two of the annexed consultants' reports in full:
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| Many other papers were presented at a Dili conference in March 2003. The most important are:
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| The last frontier: Australia’s maritime territories and the policing of Indonesian fishermen by Ruth Balint, 1999 | ||||||||
| Timor-Leste National Workshop on Climate Change, UNDP, November 2003 | ||||||||
| Aid, Trade and Oil: Australia's Second Betrayal of East Timor by Tim Anderson, Journal of Australian Political Economy, December 2003 (PDF) | ||||||||
| Statement by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri at Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative conference, London, June 2003. | ||||||||
| Can Timor Leste Avoid the Resource Curse? by Charles Scheiner, La'o Hamutuk. PowerPoint Tetum PowerPoint. TAG Workshop, Dili, March 2004. | ||||||||
| Draft legislation and public consultation relating to management and taxation of petroleum in Timor-Leste, August-September 2004, including La'o Hamutuk submission with extensive commentary about transparency. | ||||||||
| Public Consultation regarding discussion paper about Timor-Leste Petroleum Fund, October-December 2004, including submissions from La'o Hamutuk and others about transparency, accountability and other issues. | ||||||||
| Oil in Timor-Leste: An exploration of economic, ecological and moral debt. By La'o Hamutuk for Oilwatch, September 2005 | ||||||||
| The Oil Resources of Timor-Leste: Curse or Blessing? by Mats Lundahl and Fredrik Sjoholm, October 2006 | ||||||||
| Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges, La'o Hamutuk, February 2008 | ||||||||
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Global issues
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| Security vs. Sovereignty, Oilwatch Declaration at World Social Forum III, January 2003 |
| Alternatives to Oil: Toward A Global Energy Transition by Ross Gelbspan (PDF). Petropolitics conference, Washington, January 2004 |
Oil and Poverty
| Pumping Poverty: Britain’s Department for International Development and the oil industry, Platform research, March 2005 |
| Poverty Reduction in Resource-Rich Developing Countries: What have Multinational Corporations Got to Do with it? By Uwem I. Ite, UK, 2005. About Shell in Nigeria, and the need for government to represent society. |
Energy use and supply worldwide
| International Energy Outlook, U.S. Energy Information Administration, June 2006 |
| BP World Energy Review 2007: Full report, workbook, slidepack, June 2007 |
| Half Gone: The coming global energy crisis, its conflation with global warming, and the implications. By Dr Jeremy Leggett, October 2005 |
Transparency and Accountability
Because OilWeb includes many items on this important issue, they are listed in a separate index page.
Oil, Politics, Human Rights and War
| Oil and War: The Artifices of 20th Century History (Oilwatch background paper, 2002) |
| How Does Natural Resource Wealth Influence Civil War? (PDF) |
Abstract: According to several recent studies, a country’s natural resource dependence is highly correlated with the likelihood it will suffer from civil war. The mechanisms behind this correlation are not obvious: different scholars offer different theories but with little evidence. This paper uses a novel "medium-N" approach to examine the causal mechanisms behind this correlation. It begins by describing nine hypotheses about how resources may influence a conflict; it specifies the observable implications of each; and it reports which of these implications can be observed in a sample of 13 conflicts. The paper finds that resources can have a variety of effects on conflict, not all of them harmful; that resources tend to play different roles in separatist conflicts and non-separatist conflicts; that resources that are "lootable" have a different impact than resources that are "non-lootable"; and that the emergence of a futures market for post-combat resource rights – a "booty futures" market – has contributed to the initiation or duration of several conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa.
| Oil, Drugs, and Diamonds: How Do Natural Resources Vary in their Impact on Civil War? (PDF) |
| Blood Diamonds and Oil |
| Fuelling poverty: Oil, war and corruption report by Christian Aid, December 2003. Full report PDF. |
| Oil & Politics: Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World’s Oil By Michael Klare (PDF). Petropolitics conference, Washington, January 2004 |
| Oil & War: Fueling Conflict by Michael Renner (PDF). Petropolitics conference, Washington, January 2004 |
| Crude designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq's Oil Wealth, Platform, IPS and others, Nov. 2005 |
| A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds and Civil War by Michael Ross, February 2006 |
| Oil, Islam and Women by Michael Ross, August 2007 |
| Blood Barrels: Why Oil Wealth Fuels Conflict by Michael Ross, May 2008 |
Climate Justice and Environment
| Oil: A life cycle analysis of its health and environmental impacts. Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School, March 2002. |
| Climate Justice (Oilwatch background paper, the Bali Principles of Climate Justice, 2002) |
| Moratorium on new oil development (Oilwatch background paper, 2002) |
| Timor-Leste National Workshop on Climate Change, UNDP, November 2003 |
| Introduction to Climate Change (Presentation by Prof. Rodel Lasco, Dili Conference on Climate Change, November 2003) |
| Oil: A Life Cycle Analysis of its Health and Environmental Impacts by Paul R. Epstein and Jesse Selber of the Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment, 2003. |
| Oil & Climate Change: Global Warming Backgrounder By Tom Athanasiou (PDF). Petropolitics conference, Washington, January 2004 |
| Marine Geophysical Safety Manual, International Association of Geophysical Contractors, Edition 9, 2004. |
Liquefied Natural Gas
| Global LNG Market Status & Outlook, U.S. Energy Information Administration, December 2003. |
| Australia's LNG Capability, Commonwealth Dept. of Industry, Tourism and Resources presentation to US LNG Summit, December 2003. |
| 2004 Corporate Social Responsibility Report from Atlantic LNG, Trinidad, June 2005. |
| Australian LNG Industry fact sheet from ISR Website, September 2005. |
| LNG Development Question Becomes "How" Rather than "Whether", press release from Cambridge Energy Research Associates, November 2005. |
| LNG: Understanding the Basic Facts, U.S. Department of Energy, February 2006 |
| The Geopolitics of Natural Gas by Michael Klare, The Nation, January 2006 |
| What is LNG? Fact Sheet from Chevron's Gorgon Project, October 2006 |
| Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges, La'o Hamutuk, February 2008 |
| Shell floats LNG production unit, March 2008 |
| LNG capacity seen up 400% by 2030, March 2008 |
| See also countries with LNG plants: West Papua |
Other
| Phasing Out International Financial Institutions Financing for Fossil Fuel and Mining Projects: Demanding Local Community Self-Determination, by Friends of the Earth International, January 2002. |
| Enhancing the Social Performance of Engineering Services Contractors: Learning from AMEC’s Oil and Gas Asset Support Operations in the Asia-Pacific Region, with case-study on the Shell ‘Malampaya’ Gas-to-Power Project by Engineers Against Poverty and Overseas Development Institute, November 2004 |