Energy Politics in Colombia

ISBN-13: 9780367012700 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 257 str.

René De La Pedraja

Opis

This book, covering the period since 1920, attempts to answer Colombia's failure to properly utilize its vast reserves of coal, hydroelectricity, and petroleum. It examines Colombia's policies concerning a broad range of representative energy development projects.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Petroleum and Natural Gas -- The First Nationalistic Campaign -- The Alliance with the Foreign Oil Companies -- New Winds -- The Oil Companies Counterattack -- The Last Nationalistic Backlash -- The Final Outcome -- Electricity -- The U.S Utilities in Colombia -- The Private Colombian Utilities at Bay -- From Municipal to Central State Action -- The Decisive Clashes -- Slowing Down the State -- Toward a National Electrical System -- In the Provinces and the Countryside -- Coal -- Coal: Ebb and Flow -- Epilogue

O autorze

De La Pedraja, René