The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb
December 24th, 2022
Via Wired, an article on how a former BP lawyer is going up against Exxon—and her own country—in a bid to stop offshore oil drilling before disaster strikes: IN LATE JUNE, inside a squat concrete building in Georgetown, Guyana, on a noisy street flanked by telephone repair shops and beauty supply stores, two lawyers were waging one […]
Read more »Russia and Central African Republic
December 24th, 2022
Courtesy of the New York Times, a look at how – as Moscow wages war in Ukraine – its mercenaries have already established control in the Central African Republic — with scant Western reaction: In early March, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its third week, a Russian diplomat nearly 3,000 miles away in the […]
Read more »Egypt Is Spending Billions on a New Capital That Egyptians May Not Visit
December 24th, 2022
Via the Wall Street Journal, an article on the new Cairo – a city which is a centerpiece of the president’s plan for modernizing the country: In a desert plain 40 miles east of central Cairo, a sprawling new capital city is taking shape, with skyscrapers, luxury residences and pedestrian malls representing President Abdel Fattah Al […]
Read more »How Greenland’s Mineral Wealth Made It a Geopolitical Battleground
December 24th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at how Denmark’s semi-autonomous territory is coveted by China, the United States, and global mining companies: Angutitsiaq Isbosethsen, 21, sits on a small hill close to Kangerluarsuk, a deep-frozen fjord in Kujalleq in South Greenland. His hometown, Narsaq, with 1,346 inhabitants, is 20 minutes away by boat. Isbosethsen works as a […]
Read more »Gwadar Protest Leader Warns Chinese To Leave Key Belt and Road Port
December 24th, 2022
Via NikkeiAsia, a report on how the Pakistani government faces increasingly confrontational local rights movement to China’s BRI investment: A protest leader in the Pakistani port town of Gwadar, a key hub for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, has warned Chinese citizens to leave by Thursday — turning up the heat on a federal government already […]
Read more »Iran, Russia Building Trade Route That Defies Sanctions
December 24th, 2022
Via The Financial Tribune, a look at Iran and Russia’s efforts to build a trade route that defies sanctions: Iran, Russia Building Trade Route That Defies Sanctions ….. Russia and Iran are building a new transcontinental trade route stretching from the eastern edge of Europe to the Indian Ocean, a 3,000–kilometer (1,860–mile) passage that’s beyond […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.