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PNG PM Silent on Environmental Risks of the Solwara 1 Deep Sea Mine
Thursday 28 February 2013 Australia / Papua New Guinea. Last December the Deep Sea Mining Campaign sent a letter to Papua New Guinean Prime Minister, Peter O’Neill. The letter outlined specific environmental concerns about the Solwara 1 mine and requested that documents relating to the approvals process of Nautilus Minerals Solwara 1 deep sea mine be made publicly available. The campaign is still awaiting a response from the PNG Government. … read more

PM recognizes Solwara 1 environmental impact as a Core Issue: What steps will the PNG Government now take?
Thursday 6 December 2012 Australia / Papua New Guinea. Today the Deep Sea Mining Campaign will deliver a letter to the Prime Minister of PNG. The letter welcomes Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s recent statements recognizing the environmental impact of Solwara 1 as a “core issue” … read more

Oceanographic Assessment Blows Nautilus Out of the Water
Tuesday 6 November 2012 Australia / Papua New Guinea. A new report finds that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) for Nautilus Mineral’s Solwara 1 deep sea mining project seriously downplays the risks facing local communities and the marine environment … read more

EU funding for SOPAC’s Reckless Approach to Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific Under fire
Wednesday 16 August 2012 Australia / New Zealand / London. Civil Society highlights SOPAC’s corruption of the precautionary principle and questions EU support for a reckless approach to development that would be unacceptable in its own member countries … read more

Nautilus seabed mining experiment falters
Wednesday 20 June 2012 TORONTO. Today Canadians are standing in solidarity with civil society in the Pacific against deep sea mining. Canadian company, Nautilus Inc, is leading the rush to mine the sea floor in the Pacific … read more

World Oceans Day – save our seabeds from destructive experimental mining
Friday 8 June 2012 WORLD OCEANS DAY: Groups in the Pacific are calling for our oceans to be protected from all seabed mining The ‘Solwara 1′ mine proposed by Canadian-owned Nautilus Minerals Inc is the first commercial deep sea mining project in the world … read more

SOPAC framework on deep seabed mining will disenfranchise Pacific Peoples’
Wednesday 15 February 2012 – NGO’s across the Pacific, criticise The Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SOPAC) proposal for a legislative and regulatory framework for deep sea mineral exploration and mining … read more

Report details unacceptable impacts from deep sea mining by Canada’s Nautilus
November 24, 2011 – Port Morseby, Papua New Guinea/ Ottawa, Canada/ Melbourne, Australia. The Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and MiningWatch Canada and have released a new report called “Out of Our Depth.” … read more

IN THE NEWS

For ongoing news on deep sea / experimental seabed mining please visit Papua New Guinea Mine Watch

Papua New Guinea Mine Watch (PNG, online)

Papua New Guinea Mine Watch was originally established to track the progress of the Ramu nickel mine in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, but has since been expanded to cover the whole mining sector in PNG including deep sea mining. This expansion has been as a result of three factors. Firstly, the overwhelming interest shown in the blog – with more than 50,000 visits in the first nine months; secondly, the multitude of issues affecting other mines in PNG; and, thirdly, the rapid expansion of the mining sector in PNG with several new mines under construction and many more in the planning stages.

12 March 2012: BHP rejects seabed mining as not meeting its own environmental standards
12 March 2012: New Zealanders protest against experimental seabed mining
11 March 2012: Costs a game changer for experimental seabed gold and copper mining?
6 December 2011: Experimental seabed mining making waves in regional media

Radio 3CR, National Program: Earth Matters (Australia)

2 Feb 2012: On this edition of Earth Matters we hear about the new deep sea mining project, solwara 1, off the coast of Papua New Guinea. We speak to Dr. Helen Rosenbaum, author of Out of our Depth, and Wence Magun, from the Stewards of the Sea organisation about the potential impacts of deep sea mining on precious marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them
http://podcast.3cr.org.au/pod/3CRCast-2012-02-19-82693.mp3