Does Trump Want Putin To Get Ukraine’s $26 Trillion in Gas and Minerals?
December 19th, 2024
Via The Washington Post, commentary on Kyiv’s vast gas and mineral deposits, and whether President Trump want those flowing west, or to Russia and China? Donald Trump often says that liberating Iraq without getting its oil resources was one of America’s biggest foreign policy blunders. He has a chance to avoid a similar mistake in Ukraine. Ukraine […]
Read more »The Investors Punting On A Ukraine Economic Renaissance
September 5th, 2024
Via The Asia Times, an article examining the investors looking for a Ukraine economic renaissance, a group which includes Italy’s Fincantieri (way with Odesa port plan) while Wall Street giants Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR all angling for pieces of Ukraine’s action Fincantieri—Europe’s largest shipbuilder, based in Italy’s Trieste—is quietly working to transform defunct Ukraine government-owned […]
Read more »The Green Treasure Chest Buried in Ukraine
June 11th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a slightly dated report on how war-torn Ukraine holds large deposits of critical minerals used in green technology Ukraine is sitting on a treasure chest to fuel the energy transition. Another week, another wave of depressing news from Ukraine. As Kyiv launches its counteroffensive, striking against targets such as the […]
Read more »Lithuanian Investor To Pay Ukranian Farmers To Trap Carbon In Their Soil
May 2nd, 2024
Via The Next Web, a report on a Lithuanian investor who plans to pay Ukrainian farmers to trap carbon in their soil: Lithuanian climate investment firm HeavyFinance has added over 700,000 football pitches-worth of farmland in Ukraine to its soil carbon credit programme. Modern agriculture has taken its toll on soils. Centuries of plowing, cutting, […]
Read more »How Fast Food’s Global Takeover Was Underwritten by Development Banks
April 24th, 2024
Courtesy of TruthDig, a report on how – from South Africa to Ukraine – five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United […]
Read more »The Final Countdown: Will Russia and Ukraine Renew Gas Transit Deal?
February 15th, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, analysis of the potential for Russia and Ukraine to renew its gas transit partnership: Extending the transport of Russian gas via Ukraine after 2024 would likely benefit both Russia and Ukraine. Stopping the flow of gas, on the other hand, would be painful for whichever side initiates it. At […]
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.