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Commodities Trading: Profit from pollution

Posted March 28, 2008

"As always, crisis breeds opportunity in some areas and poses long-term risks in others." — Andrew Mickey

by Andrew Mickey

Baltimore – (TFN): It’s hard to believe, but true. An environmental “dead zone” has killed off everything in a 7,000 square-mile radius.

Worse still, I’m not talking about some over-polluted region in Mongolia. This isn’t some far off Asian province packed with coal-fired power plants to meet China’s insatiable power demand. It’s right in America’s back yard.

That’s right. While the Greenpeace folks are out saving baby seals off the coast of Newfoundland, these environmental warriors seem to have completely overlooked a real problem.

So just where is this dead zone? It’s right off the southern coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico. And it puts a $26 billion industry in harm’s way.

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Commidities Trading: The Gulf of Mexico goes dead

This Gulf of Mexico dead zone is bad. Very bad. But I’m not here to blather on about how you and I accidentally created it and need to start driving hybrid cars. Not at all. My concern is there are companies that are going to pay the price for this dead zone. I want to show you how to avoid investing in those companies — and how to find others that will profit from it.

Dr. Nancy Rabalais, a marine scientist at Louisiana State University, has actually swum in the dead zone. As Dr. Rabalais says, “Anything that can’t move out eventually dies.”

Pretty bad, eh? And that’s just the environmental side. Jim Giattina, director of the Gulf of Mexico Program, says that “Fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico have an annual catch of 1.7 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, worth $26 billion. We’ve seen what can happen in other places in the world with ‘dead zones’… We don’t want to see a collapse of this fishery.”

As always, crisis breeds opportunity in some areas and poses long-term risks in others. Let’s take a look at how this happened. Read on to learn how you can find profit in the "dead zone."

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