...There have been disputes between miners and locals, bankruptcies and bribery attempts, lawsuits, even a kind of intensifying guerrilla warfare between local utility crews and a shadowy army of bootleg miners who set up their servers in basements and garages and max out the local electrical grids....
An earthquake in Papua New Guinea rattled ExxonMobil’s gas project on the island nation to the tune of $19 billion, and a backlash against the U.S. company’s activities is becoming more difficult to contain.
It's worth noting that nobody was touting American "energy dominance" when the net energy import number last hovered around this value in the early 1980s.
The U.S. Navy has increased its Mediterranean fleet, just a couple of weeks before Exxon is due to send two surveying vessels to explore offshore Cyprus near the area where Turkey blocked an Eni drilling ship from prospecting in February...
What do cobalt, uranium, helium, titanium, and fluorspar have in common? ...according to the U.S. government, these are all minerals that are deemed critical to both the economic and national security of the country.
"Given the increase in seismic activity recorded on the island of La Palma, the Ministry of Sustainability and Security, in application of the Special Plan for Civil Protection and Emergency Care for Volcanic Risk, has convened to assess the activity and evolution forecast..."
The DAX legged lower, led by sliding shares of Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler after Germany’s top administrative court ruled German cities have the right to ban diesel cars, a move which could have far-reaching consequences for the 12 million vehicles in Europe’s largest auto market.
Several major oil and gas operators were forced to shutter operations on Monday after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake rattled Papua New Guinea's energy-rich interior, causing landslides and cutting off communications...
"...the upgrades...will ensure that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault can continue to offer the world’s gene banks a secure storage space in the future... to safeguard all the genetic material that is crucial to global food security."
