Secret Biofuels
An investigation into the biofuel industry’s ownership chains, geographic footprint, and the documented and proposed infrastructure behind the transition from petroleum to algae, palm, and other biological feedstocks — with attention to who benefits, who is displaced, and what the public record will and will not say.
Alcoa and the Algae Nightmare
The documented Alcoa mercury contamination of Lavaca Bay (1965-1981, 67 pounds per day for 16 years) and the speculative thread connecting that 64-square-mile dead zone to long-term proposals for Gulf algae biofuel production.
Tallow — Global, Local, Energy Services
The Chinese tallow tree as biofuel feedstock — invasive species or strategic crop, the global firms positioning around tallow oil, and the Gulf Coast geography that makes the question regionally specific.
Oily Palmers
Palm oil as biofuel feedstock, the deforestation and labor record of the global palm industry, and the specific corporate actors building palm-oil-derived biodiesel infrastructure in the Western hemisphere.
Dilemma — Investment Morality
ESG investing, biofuel investment vehicles, and the question of moral exposure when capital flows into an industry whose displacement effects are documented and whose clean-energy claims are contested.
The Musk of Soros
The documented investment positions of two of the most influential public-figure financiers in energy, biotechnology, and infrastructure — and the structural overlap between their portfolios and the Gulf Coast biofuel transition.