Mining and Electric Vehicles: Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt
Electric vehicle production at scale requires materials we don’t have enough of.
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Book Review: Stephanie Jones-Rogers’ “They Were Her Property”
This important scholarly work paints a vivid portrait of 19th century America’s most significant and devastating system of economic exchange.
Read more...Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been ‘A Disaster’ For Drillers, Investors
“Excluding capital, the big eight basin producers have destroyed on average 80 percent of the value of their companies since the beginning of the shale revolution,”
Read more...Victory Gardens in the World Wars (and in the Neoliberal Era)
A random walk through Victory Garden posters, with commentary, and a recommendation that the government mobilize to recreate them.
Read more...Australia Is at War With Itself Over China
The Australian secuirty services are in open war against the Government over its pro-China policies.
Read more...We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Read more...The Permian Is A Double-Edged Sword For Oil Majors
There are still questions about the profitability of the Chevron’s assets in West Texas.
Read more...UN Backs Seed Sovereignty as Defense Against Multinational-Led GMO Projects
The anti-GMO UN declaration was written by and for peasants from every continent.
Read more...My Theory About Gold as Diversification to the Busted “Everything Bubble”
And over the long term? It gets complicated, as they say.
Read more...G20: You Can Smell Tear Gas in the Streets as the Oil Industry Squabbles
What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Australia’s New Grain Deliveries Plunge Due to Drought
Another sign of climate change induced stress, this one from Australia.
Read more...Something Russia and EU Appear to Agree on – the Euro
The very rational case for Russia and the EU to trade oil in euros.
Read more...The Regulation That Could Push Oil To $200
A measure to clean up maritime fuel oil could cause havoc for oil prices generally.
Read more...Trump Tariffs Hit Largest US Aluminum Company, ALCOA
Tariffs misfire yet again.
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