The Ukrainian Minerals In Donald Trump’s Sights
February 18th, 2025
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on the the estimated deposits of lithium, titanium and rare earths such as scandium in the Ukraine that have caught the eye of President Trump: Donald Trump’s “minerals-for-aid” offer to Ukraine last week has put the spotlight on the country’s vast and rare mineral resources, to which Washington […]
Read more »Trump Urges Trading Ukraine’s Rare Earth Minerals for More U.S. Aid
February 5th, 2025
Via The New York Times, commentary that Ukraine has already emphasized that by supporting its war effort, the U.S. could get access to the country’s wealth of critical minerals like lithium and uranium: President Trump said Monday he wants to strike a deal with Ukraine whereby Kyiv would supply the United States with rare earth […]
Read more »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 »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.