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Diepzeemijnbouw – Deep Sea Mining
A recent article in Dutch magazine KIJK called ‘Diepzeemijnbouw’ (Deep Sea Mining) quotes Dr. Helen Rosenbaum from the Deep Sea Mining campaign. In summary Dr. Rosenbaum talks about how we cannot predict what the impacts of Deep Sea Mining will be that we already have problems containing mining’s impacts on land and that that it will be much harder in the ocean, we don’t know where the critical ecosystems are that we need to protect. Nautilus Minerals has claimed 500,000 sq km to exploit, if mining starts to happen on that scale it will have enormous consequences. The technology that is based on deep sea oil drilling and that the BP disaster teaches us the technology is not fool proof.
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Mining Extreme Depths
HuffPost LiveMarch 16 2013
Companies around the world are aiming to cash-in on deep-sea mining expeditions. Is this the future, or are the consequences of mining the unknown too great?
Is the next mining boom on the ocean floor?
The ConversationSara Bice | 15 April 2013 Sara Bice a Senior Associate of the Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility and Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne raises concerns about the potential impacts of deep sea mining in the Pacific. Photo: Amid global demand for rare earth minerals, there has been a strong interest in deep sea mining. Flickr\gnews
Defence behemoth Lockheed Martin’s recent announcement of a venture into deep sea mining (DSM) reflects growing interest in exploiting virgin mining territory.
In what is being described by some as a “deep sea mining bonanza”, the British arm of the US defence firm hopes to exploit rare earth minerals from the seabeds between Mexico and Hawaii. The announcement comes as the world’s first DSM project in PNG is mired in legal and financial strife and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is finalising a three-volume series detailing the potential social and environmental impacts of this new mining frontier.
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Dr Jack says no to seabed mining
Solomon StarBy Elliot Dawea | Tuesday 16 April 2013 Photo: http://blogs.oceanswatch.org/solomons-png/?m=201108
A lecturer in education at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Solomon Islands Campus has petitioned the Temotu Provincial Government against underwater mining.
Dr Jack Maebuta made the petition through online appealing for all members of the Temotu Public Forum on facebook to submit their names for support.
Dr Jack said many people are ignorant about the likely impacts of such mining and thus the Temotu provincial government should not prey on our people’s ignorance as leverage into rushing off the implementation of the project.
Read moreNew Ireland Communities Angry with Mining Minister
‘We want Ministers and a government that believe in a new development model. One that works for PNG and for local people. We want investment in local agriculture, local people, local skills. Not more of these big foreign owned activities that just steal our resources and leave us to suffer the costs.’
[via Papua New Guinea Mine Watch]
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“… what proof can you tell me that seabed mine will make a difference?”
Wence Magun, Deep Sea Mining campaign steering committee member recently spoke to Television New Zealand (TVNZ) about why shouldn’y be rushing into deep sea mining in the Pacific. You can see the full transript to the speech here. Wence is also the national coordinator for PNG NGO Mas Kagin Tapani, he recently attended the Second Regional Training Workshop on Deep Sea Mining Law and Contract Negotiations in Tonga.
WATCH VIDEO HERE
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Mr Chan what has come of the 24,000+ signed petition against Experimental Seabed Mining?
Deep Sea Mining campaign steering committee member, Patric Kaiku refers to a photo from last year of PNG Mining Minister, Byron Chan when a petition coordinated by ACT NOW! and PANG of over 24,000 signatures was handed over to him – still no response from Mr. Chan:
“This was the moment in October last year 2012. Mining Minister Byron Chan, alongside Philip Samar from MRA received petitions of well over 20,000 inhabitants in the coastal communities in Papua New Guinea, calling for Nautilus and the State (DEC, MRA, and so forth) to halt proceedings in the experimental seabed mining ventures in PNG. Almost five months has passed and here we are, in the Year of the Snake (Chinese)/2013 with nothing coming from the mouth of Junior Chan. We hear and read about his sojourns to far-off places like Beijing, Toronto, Sydney and little else about the petition. Come on Chan …”
