The Chevron Plant That Broke the Fertilizer Market — And...
Chevron's Wheatstone LNG plant outage triggered a global fertilizer crisis, driving urea prices up 50% amid China and Russia export bans. Analysis of market impact through 2024.
https://theboard.world/articles/energy/chevron-plant-broke-fertilizer-market-not-war-zone
The Boarman family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt.
But why was this happening? For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-polluted-drinking-water-boarman-family?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oklahoma #Pollution #Water #Environment #Health #Safety #Oil
NEW: An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries.
At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ambani-reliance-industries-america-first-refining-texas
90-Day Famine Clock: The Global Food Crisis Nobody Sees
How QatarEnergy's LNG force majeure triggers a fertilizer crisis that threatens global food security. The Haber-Bosch connection nobody is covering.
https://theboard.world/articles/energy/90-day-famine-clock-lng-force-majeure-global-food-crisis
Markets🚨are finally waking up to the gravity that the conflict poses to global #oil costs.
ClearVw expects:🚨global supply deficit of 3M/bbl/day in Mar, & ~7M bbl/day in Apr. Just confronting that shortfall would drain 300M bbls from global crude inventories.
Tankers🚨can’t transit the Strait for fear of atks,⬆️insur costs... #Iran can continue to disrupt shipping at low cost to itself. How soon will the Strait open? Nobody in the Trump admin has a good A.
#IranWar #USPol
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/09/oil-markets-iran-war-trump/
How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
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A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/carbon-capture-storage-fossil-fuel-sally-benson?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Oil #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #Science #Research
NEW: Trump Plans to Protect Methane-Leaking Stripper Wells. This Billionaire Donor Will Benefit.
Oil tycoon Jeffery Hildebrand gave millions to Donald Trump’s 2024 election campaign. He is set to reap a financial windfall as the EPA moves to weaken restrictions on wells like his that produce very little energy but release vast amounts of methane.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-jeffery-hildebrand-hilcorp-oil-regulations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oil #Climate #ClimateChange #Methane #Trump #EPA #Gas #Regulation #Environment
What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
I've been kind of waiting for this video to come out, so I'm glad to see it arrive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13gQAt7OzxE
tldr; the war isn't affecting fertiliser costs in the US. Trump's trade war, however, as been for over a year. But farmers are still with the shitstain, so won't touch the real problem, and this is hot and convenient.
Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.
We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-injection-wells-oil-regulators-database?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Oil #Gas #Environment #Oklahoma #Data #EPA #Regulation
Iran-US tensions put markets on edge as oil jumps again and Labour conference kicks off
Markets are set for volatility in the UK and globally as investors watch closely for signs of escalation…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iran #andyburnham #Equities #FTSE100 #Inflation #JohnHealey #labour-party #Markets #MiddleEast #Oil
https://www.europesays.com/iran/310166/
Iraq’s oil exports to Jordan completely halt
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s oil exports to Jordan have completely stopped since the end of December 2025, despite…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iraq #Amman #Baghdad #crude #Iraqicrude #Jordan #Oil #oilsupplies #somo
https://www.europesays.com/iran/310273/
The Strait that holds the world hostage: Why Hormuz remains the global economy’s weakest link
Editor’s note: Abulfaz Babazadeh is a scientist, a scholar of Japanese studies, a political observer, and a member…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #PersianGulf #energy #gas #Hormuz #Iran #Israel #maritime #MiddleEast #navigation #Oil #qatarenergy #usa
https://www.europesays.com/iran/300511/
Commodities Trader Outlines 4 Things to Watch As Energy Markets Teeter https://www.byteseu.com/2384983/ #baird #barrel #China #Conflict #day #DemandDestruction #Energy #EnergyMarket #Iran #month #oil #RecordPrice #refiner #strait #StrategicPetroleumReserve #thing
"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."
As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.
~ Dan Froomkin
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump
Iraq Oil Ministry clarifies September crude exports average 2.6M bpd
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Iraq’s Ministry of Oil clarified on Monday, September 21, 2026, that the country’s daily crude…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Iraq #energy #Iraqcrudeoilexportaverage2.6millionbpd #IraqMinistryofOilSeptemberexports2026 #Iraqoilexports4millionbarrelsperdayclarification #Oil #Qayyarah #SOMOQayyarahcrudetankerexports #StraitofHormuzclosureIraqoilexports
https://www.europesays.com/iran/300424/
https://www.europesays.com/3264670/ Halliburton Signs Deals to Expand Venezuela Energy Presence #CrudeOil #CrudeOilPrice #Eneva #halliburton #oil #OilPrice #OilfieldServices #Petroleum #upstream #Venezuela #WESCA
As Trump touts Hormuz oil flows, can the US outlast Iran?
United States President Donald Trump has been projecting comfort with the status quo in the conflict with Iran.…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #StraitofHormuz #Hormuz #Iran #Oil #trump #UnitedStates #US-IsraelwaronIran
https://www.europesays.com/iran/301245/
Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.
#News #EPA #Environment #Oil #Gas #Energy #Government #Methane
"My Front-Row Seat to the Making of Michael Wolff—and the #Epstein Predators"
I attended their schools, went to their parties ..It’s time to talk about what I saw. Some may get mad, I’m naming names. If they do, too fucking bad. They took a path that's brought us to the brink
https://www.blueamp.co/p/my-front-row-seat-to-the-making-of?r=j0lyx #us #epsteinfiles #donaldtrump #trump #ai #usa #culture #politics #news #tv #iran #israel #middleeast #media #eu #europe #america #unitedstates #oil #china #war #economy #tech #stockmarket #press #socialmedia
Fifteen laws in 11 states that could immunize the fossil fuel industry from climate-related legal claims have either been passed or are being debated.
Many bills are part of a coordinated effort by groups linked to right-wing activist Leonard Leo.
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #FossilFuels #Oil #Gas #Climate #Environment #ClimateChange #Law
RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mz6oqvpoqs2p
No, a full accounting would recognize that the Iranian lives lost and the damage done to Iran. A full accounting would recognize that the Iranians are human beings that are being attacked BY US. A full accounting would recognize that the US and Israel were the aggressors against Iran.
The media and political leadership of the Global North is engaged in constant propaganda in its descriptions of this conflict.
And, sadly, I see very few of my fellow USians expressing concern for the Iranian lives lost or the damage inflicted upon their homes/cities. The few mentions of the war against Iran are always framed in terms of the US election cycle and the resulting economic hardship. Occasionally some express brief horror at Trump's threats of annihilating Iranian society but those concerns don't get more than momentary air time.
Shit, I see more upset about fucking #AI than I do about the #warcrimes carried out during the #US #Israel #war against #Iran.
#Oil #Energy #Imperialism
https://www.europesays.com/3271338/ Europe Trades Two Oligarchs for a Three-Year Freeze as Washington Aims at Russia’s Oil Buyers: Who Wins, Who Pays? #economics #Economy #EconomyOfEU #EconomyOfEuropeanUnion #EconomyOfTheEU #EconomyOfTheEuropeanUnion #EUEconomy #Europe #EuropeanUnion #FinanceOfGeopolitics #Oil&Gas #Russia #USA
NEW: For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas.
Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas.
One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #Environment #Research #Science #Academia
NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper.
#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Environment #Research #Science #Academia #Princeton
