Top Gulf Aluminum Producer EGA Halted Output After Iran Strike (Yvonne Yue Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/top-gulf-aluminum-producer-ega-halted-smelter-after-iran-strike
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p97#a260401p97
The blue origin explosion used the same amount of c02 as recycling 8.5 million aluminum cans.
The USA uses 100 billion aluminum cans a year. Of which 46 billion are recycled which saved 5,500 blue origin explosions a year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXVmkurTOgM
US Set to Roll Out Tiered Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Imports (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/us-to-set-25-tariff-on-finished-steel-aluminum-products-wsj
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p107#a260401p107
UAE and Bahrain's main aluminium producers say plants damaged by Iranian attacks
https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/2026/03/29/uae-and-bahrains-main-aluminium-producers-damaged-by-iranian-attacks/…
Can't help but wonder if politicians in Aotearoa are pondering the wisdom of selling off all our food processing (and timber, dairy, aluminium, etc.) to foreign corporations... Given that they can 'increase shareholder value' by moving production to places where they don't have to care for pollution or workers rights, it means we lose fundamental production capabilities to the detriment of the entire population.
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La circulation est momentanément arrêtée entre Champ de Mars et Pontoise Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'alimentation électrique
🤖 01/05 19:21
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and makes a corporate piggy cry: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-may-1-81818d65c077?sk=2655381a44cd5ba695823a78c049a107
Le trafic est perturbé sur toute la ligne en répercussion d'une panne d’alimentation électrique d’un train .
🤖 02/04 11:59