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Environmental Impact News 25 June 2025 - 13 October 2025

Deep-Sea Gold Rush? The Metals Company Stock Rockets as Trump Targets Undersea Treasure

Deep-Sea Gold Rush? The Metals Company Stock Rockets as Trump Targets Undersea Treasure

Background: EV Boom Spurs Metal Hunt Electric vehicles and green tech have sent demand for critical minerals surging. Cobalt, nickel, copper and others are essential for EV batteries and have been designated “critical” by agencies like USGS nasdaq.com iea.org. According to the IEA, demand for nickel and cobalt jumped 6–8% in 2024 due to energy applications iea.org. Deep-sea nodules contain these exact metals: “Minerals critical to the clean energy transition have been found in the deep ocean floor,” including cobalt, nickel, manganese and others used in EV batteries weforum.org. With many land-based mines concentrated in a few countries, governments (notably
13 October 2025
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Deep-Sea Mining Goldmine or Fool’s Gold? The Metals Company (TMC) Stock Analysis 2025

Deep-Sea Mining Goldmine or Fool’s Gold? The Metals Company (TMC) Stock Analysis 2025

Key Facts & Figures 📊 The Metals Company Overview: Undersea Minerals for the EV Boom The Metals Company (“TMC”) is a deep-sea minerals exploration firm on a mission to harvest polymetallic nodules – often called “a battery in a rock” – from the ocean floor metals.co investors.metals.co. These potato-sized nodules are extraordinarily rich in critical battery metals: nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese. TMC’s business model is to collect nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean (in international waters between Hawaii and Mexico) and process them into high-grade metals needed for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, renewable energy technology,
4 October 2025
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BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

Project Details and Timeline BP’s announcement marks a milestone in the Gulf of Mexico, a region long known for deepwater oil riches. The Tiber-Guadalupe platform will be located roughly 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, at water depths over 6,000 feet bignewsnetwork.com spglobal.com. BP originally discovered the Tiber field in 2009 and the Guadalupe field in 2014; combining them with six new wells (Tiber) and two tie-back wells (Guadalupe) gives the hub its 80,000 bpd capacity bignewsnetwork.com oilprice.com. First oil is targeted for 2030, after a multi-year construction and commissioning phase. According to BP, the project is fully funded within its
30 September 2025
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EU Declares War on Space Junk: A Deep Dive into the New Space Act, the Starlink Dilemma and the Hidden Climate Costs of Orbital Debris

EU Declares War on Space Junk: A Deep Dive into the New Space Act, the Starlink Dilemma and the Hidden Climate Costs of Orbital Debris

The EU Space Act was presented on 25 June 2025 and would impose EU-wide rules on launch licensing, debris-mitigation, end-of-life disposal, cybersecurity and environmental impact, with fines up to 2% of global turnover. If approved, most provisions would apply from 2030, including special traffic-coordination duties for mega (100+) and giga (1,000+) constellations. The debris crisis features about 40,000 tracked objects orbiting Earth and more than 1.2 million pieces larger than 1 cm, with at least 3,000 new debris fragments created in 2024. Starlink has launched 7,578 satellites, of which 7,556 were operational as of 30 May 2025. SpaceX logged over
25 June 2025
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