A Trio of Powerful Storms Slam into North America
AI-generated overview
The roundup leads with three storms affecting North America: Isaias caused deaths and outages along the U.S. Gulf Coast and forced much Gulf oil and gas production offline, while Rachel damaged Long Beach’s boardwalk and Simon struck Mexico. It also reports Trump’s claimed diesel-export deal with Russia and energy ceasefire, alongside deadly attacks in Riyadh. Other items cover Representative Jared Huffman’s criticism of efforts to limit scrutiny of permitting reform; Mighty Earth research linking European automakers to coal-fired steel; Kazatomprom shareholders’ contrasting votes on Chinese and Russian uranium deals; and China’s green-ammonia shipping and hydrogen-pipeline advances. A Wood Mackenzie analysis found four-hour batteries cheaper than open-cycle gas turbines across 43 modeled markets, with a caveat about the cost metric used.
What’s discussed
- Hurricane Isaias caused power outages along the Alabama and Florida coasts and left at least four people dead, according to the article.
- Hurricane Isaias forced nearly two-thirds of U.S. oil and gas production in the Gulf offline, and refineries paused operations.
- Tropical Storm Rachel caused severe damage to Long Beach’s boardwalk, while Hurricane Simon struck Mexico’s west coast as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds above 150 miles per hour.
- Donald Trump posted that he had reached a deal with Vladimir Putin to lift Russian restrictions on diesel exports and release nearly 2 million tons of diesel onto the market.
- Trump later claimed that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an immediate energy ceasefire.
- The article reports that Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s main airport killed at least a dozen people and injured hundreds.
- Mighty Earth’s analysis traced coal-fired blast-furnace steel purchases in France, Spain, Germany, and Italy to vehicles made by Ford, General Motors, Honda, Stellantis, Tata Motors, Toyota, and Volkswagen.
- Nearly 89% of Kazatomprom shareholders voted to approve a uranium-supply deal with China’s State Nuclear Uranium Resource Development Company; roughly 88% abstained on the proposed deal with Russia’s Uranium One.
- A green-ammonia-powered dry bulk vessel made its maiden voyage from China to Australia, and China’s first long-distance pipeline dedicated to green hydrogen was approaching its first trial run.
- A Wood Mackenzie analysis found four-hour battery storage less expensive than open-cycle gas turbines in all 43 markets where both technologies were modeled.
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