U.S. President Donald Trump penchant for tariffs has signalled doom and gloom for many a Canadian company relying on trade partners and customers south of the border. But things are suddenly looking up for a controversial Vancouver-based firm that wants to mine the depths of the ocean floor for a resource it likens to “a battery in a rock.”
For The Metals Company and its scruffy-chic chief executive, Gerard Barron, Trump could be the disruptive catalyst flashing a long-awaited green light to begin retrieving potato-sized “nodules” that scatter the seabed and contain critical minerals that could be key to a clean-energy future.
“We’re encouraged by the growing recognition in Washington that nodules represent a strategic opportunity for America — and we’re moving forward with urgency,” Barron said in a recent statement posted to the company’s website.
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