{"id":3822,"date":"2014-03-21T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2014-04-26T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T12:35:44","slug":"one-thing-we-have-learnt-this-week-libya-is-on-the-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=3822","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week-Libya is on the brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While attention in the news is quite legitimately on Crimea and MH370 the country of Libya is on the brink of something very nasty.\u00a0 The latest from Reuters today is that Rockets have been fired at Tripoli airport. To give an update of what has happened over the last week or so.\u00a0 Rebels seized a ship loaded with oil in Cyrenaica.\u00a0 The Libyan navy is at the bottom of the Mediterranean\u00a0 due to Nato action in 2011.\u00a0 The airforce was in open revolt and it was left to the US navy to seize the (North Korean) ship back and return it to the Libyan government who the oil belonged to.\u00a0 At the same time the Prime Minster fled in a private jet.\u00a0 There is a real threat that the country might fall into civil war and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/16\/libya-partition-looms-fight-oil-tanker\" target=\"_blank\">break up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does that Libya is on the brink matter?\u00a0 I think it does for three reasons.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, there is a humanitarian issue.\u00a0 In Syria we have seen a huge humanitarian crisis that we have not been able to solve.\u00a0 At least one hundred thousand people have died, many of them women and children.\u00a0 Do we really want to see more carnage?\u00a0 Is that a Christian response?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Second, we will have a refugee crisis much closer to Europe.\u00a0 The Syrian crisis has been appalling with 2million plus people displaced.\u00a0 Libyan will want to go to Europe which will cause all sorts of ructions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lastly the raison d&#8217;etre of this blog, energy security.\u00a0 The graph below shows the oil and gas production for Libya (source BP statistical review of world energy 2013).\u00a0 The Italian gas network is supplied by Libya, but ultimately the whole EU gas network is one (with the UK on the end with very little gas storage).\u00a0 With relations with Russia getting worse by the day and the Russians very willing in the past to use energy supply disruption as a political weapon, this is another reason for us to do what we can to help Libya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Libyan-oil-and-gas-production.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Libyan-oil-and-gas-production-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Libyan oil and gas production\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Libyan-oil-and-gas-production-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Libyan-oil-and-gas-production.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we wrote in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eden.co.uk\/shop\/no-oil-in-the-lamp-4033616.html\" target=\"_blank\">book<\/a> at the end of the section on the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>This is where we are in the unfolding story of oil: dangerously dependent, with a finite supply, and a host of uncertainties to boot.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What can we do?\u00a0 Western governments need to try to get the Libyan groups talking and encourage the\u00a0disarmament of militias.\u00a0 They also need to do everything they can to build civil society and encourage the central government not to be too heavy handed in its dealings with regional groups.\u00a0 Not easy, or certain of success, but we have to try.\u00a0 Contact your representatives and pray.\u00a0 At the same time we need to get off fossil fuels using energy conservation and renewables.\u00a0 Our lent guide will help you do this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/No-oil-in-the-lamp-Lent-guide.pdf\">No oil in the lamp &#8211; Lent guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Libya is on the brink- it does matter.<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attention in the news is quite legitimately on Crimea and MH370 the country of Libya is on the brink of something very nasty.\u00a0 The latest from Reuters today is that Rockets have been fired at Tripoli airport. 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