Weather Report #6: New Fortress Energy Has More Problems, an Ominous Fishing Video Game, a Paranoid Political Thriller, and More

Happy Sunday dear subscriber! It's been a hell of a week I know. Late on Friday, I published a longer-than-I-thought-it-would-be blog about the new Trump tariffs, how stupid it all is, how they might affect Puerto Rico, and how we can – collectively – get through this new calamity. You can find that article here. I'm sure I'll follow up on how those tariffs affect Puerto Rico more specifically in the future.

Also, Heavy Weather has doubled its subscribers from 16 at the start of the year to 32 as of Friday night! I was already at a bar when I got the notification, so I celebrated by drinking several more Modelos. If you're subscribed to this little blog, thank you so much. Your support means the world to me. And if you're a paid subscriber, you're literally the only reason I can keep going this thing running and I am so immensely appreciative to have your support.

I'm trying something different this week in how I order the paywalled content. Media recommendations are going first, followed by the links for articles I recommend you check out.

Here's what's on the docket this week:

1. One podcast and one article I worked on this week.
2. Even more trouble for New Fortress Energy.
3. A Heavy Weather scoop has legs
4. A low poly, cozy atmospheric video game recommendation for the certified fishing freaks in the audience.
5. A deeply paranoid political thriller created as a response to the U.S. government losing public trust in the wake of Watergate.
6. Essays and articles about: why paranoid thrillers don't get made anymore, questioning how the Arab world is presented in video games, Trump's "antisocial state," a comparison between El Salvador's state of exception and the current fascist attack in the United States, and what the US government renditioning migrants to CECOT could be just the start of the horrors.
7. A song about leaving Ohio behind.

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Here's What I Did This Week

Before I get into anything, I want to highlight some of the work that I got into this week.

First, it's the bimonthly (twice a month not every two months) mental health podcast that I record and edit with the local mental health digital magazine Es Mental. This week's episode was about a guy who started drinking to cope with stress from his job who fears that he's getting a little bit addicted. The podcast is only in Spanish.

Cerebrando - Consumo alcohol para relajarme: ¿Cómo puedo buscar ayuda?

Second, is an article about four bills/orders from the Puerto Rican government that are attempting to privatize or actively privatizing Puerto Rico's beaches (which are all legally public except one). The article also comes with an attached video that we filmed on one of the beaches that shows pretty clearly how building even closer to the beach will only result in those structures eventually being destroyed as Mother Nature retakes what is hers.

Coastal Privatization: Four Measures that Threaten Access to Puerto Rico's Beaches

Coastal Privatization: four measures that threaten access to Puerto Rico’s beaches | 9 millones

Puerto Rico’s beaches are among the most beautiful in the world, but their conservation is at risk due to amendments to laws that do not consider climate change

9 millonesBy:Carlos Berríos Polanco

Even More Trouble for New Fortress Energy

As I've talked about on here before, New Fortress Energy is attempting to expand its San Juan Micro-Fuel Handling Facility Project to import even more LNG into the archipelago. I've been following their case with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). And according to the latest filling, NFEnergía, NFE's Puerto Rico subsidiary, is not answering FERC's engineering information request "regarding the current and planned marine vessel operations being inconsistent with [their] application filed with the Commission on September 15, 2021." FERC sent them a strongly worded letter.

This letter came after a Puerto Rican environmental lawyer (rightfully) snitched on them for "importing LNG in tankers five times( or more) the size of those previously announced or referred" to in their FERC application. "There are no known danger zone analysis of Zones 1,2 and 3 (a)for tankers entering and docking at the Bay of San Juan of the Gaslog Singapore size and (b) no known similar analysis for said danger Zones involving accidents of more than one tanker, just as is the situation today, March 28, 2025(AM).(5) FERC has not required such danger Zones analysis and imaging for the larger tankers as it did for the 30,000 cubic meter tankers in January, 2024. You must act to protect public safety," reads the filling.

Moody's recently downgraded NFE's credit rating further into the junk bond category. Like I talked about in the last Weather Report, the company has a lot of debts and trouble paying them off.

Gov't Contractor Who Pleaded Guilty To COVID-19 Relief Aid Fraud Now Cooperating with the Feds

Two weeks ago, I revealed that Jesús Sierra Toro, a government contractor with ties to the PNP, pleaded guilty to COVID-19 relief aid fraud.

Well, now, Sierra Toro is reportedly cooperating with the feds in a criminal case also related to COVID relief aid fraud that involves the brothers of PNP Rep. Jorge "Georgie" Navarro, according to Noticel. The two brothers, who had a development company with public works contracts, are charged with wire fraud conspiracy, bank bribery, money laundering, and concealing that money laundering.

Heavy Weather didn't get credit for the scoop in Noticel's story, which is understandable because this is a baby news site with limited reach. However, I'm proud of my little blog for publishing scoops like that one and others before mainstream media even knew they existed. Since the subscription base is growing, hopefully we can publish continue publishing scoops like those in the future!

If you want to see the brothers' indictment, I've uploaded it to Courtlistener and you can find it below. (Please let me know if you would like me to keep embedding the documents like this in the Weather Reports. I feel like it's a little obtrusive, but I want to know what y'all think).

That's it for this week's free stuff. If you want to access the media recommendations and the links, you can become a subscriber for as low as $3!