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3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - French bank Natixis said it plans to stop financing the trading of Ecuadorian crude oil by 2022, after pressure from campaigners over the trade’s links to environmental damage in the Amazon. FILE PHOTO: Oil field technicians work with a drill at a rig of Ecuador s state oil company Petroamazonas, in Tiputini, Ecuador October 19, 2017. Picture taken October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Daniel Tapia/File Photo The role of European banks in backing the trade came under scrutiny in August, when a report by advocacy groups Stand.earth and Amazon Watch named six European banks as major financiers of Ecuadorean oil exports to U.S. refineries. ....
Things are … not going well. Sure, on the surface, there’s room for reasonable, optimistic reflection: The Cubs are only one-game below .500. It’s still so early. Kris Bryant, Javy Baez, and the bullpen have played well. They get another chance against the Brewers this week! Etc. But dig 3 feet deeper and you find some harsh realities: The Cubs are only one game below .500. Yeah, but they split their first six games with the Pirates, arguably the worst team in MLB, and were outscored 26-19 in the process. It’s still so early. Yes, that’s true. But a lot of the problems we’re seeing this year are identical to the issues we’ve seen over the past 3-4 years. This is hardly a new team. ....
This week, the Chicago Cubs are headed out on the road for their first and second series away from Wrigley, though they’ll face the same two teams they met at home to start the year (the Pirates and Brewers, in that order). As a matter of fact, the first two games of this series against Pittsburgh will be an exact rematch of the last two games in their previous series against the Pirates, both of which were taken by Chicago. The third game, by contrast, will feature a REVENGE matchup of sorts, with Trevor Williams making his first start against his former team. And if it goes half as well as his first game as a Cub, I think we’ll all be over the moon. The Cubs need to win as many early games as possible if they want to keep the band together, so hopefully they take advantage of another winnable set of matchups against one of the weakest teams in MLB. ....
The Triple-A season does not get underway for a month, and given the unpredictable needs of the big league team, MLB had to put together a plan for April. Thus the return of the alternate site squads. At alternate sites, teams can have a Triple-A-ish roster at the ready to call up/send down players as necessary, where they can be a little better safe-guarded against COVID issues. There, the teams will practice, play intrasquad games, and periodically travel locally to play games against other alt site teams. The Cubs will once again be at South Bend. A question I’ve had is, when the Cubs’ roster was finalized, how far would they stretch on sending “prospects” to the alt site, versus keeping them in Arizona to participate in minor league spring training, which is now underway. From the look of the now-released Cubs alt site roster, it looks like the Cubs really tried to keep things pretty traditional in this non-traditional time. That is to say, the roster is mostl ....
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