257 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
De La Pedraja, René
