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“No Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific” Outside Lockheed-Martin in Los Angeles, CA

June 12, 2013 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

Papua New Guinea Mine Watch12 June 2013 Imi Pono Projects As generally reported, the Sunnylands summit between President Obama and President Xi of China this past weekend, cast “sunshine on the U.S.-China relationship.” If this sunshine, refers to new transparency, we should take no comfort in President Xi’s declaration that, “The vast Pacific Ocean has [...]

Protect Oceans. Protect Marine Life. Protect Livelihoods. No Experimental Seabed Mining.

June 9, 2013 | Posted by admin in In the News, Videos| 0 comments

It has been a few months since our last newsletter and as you can see we have moved to a new format that we hope is easier-to-read and share. Feedback is welcome. Although we haven’t been in touch via our newsletter for a while rest assured the campaign has been getting down to the [...]

Mr Chan what has come of the 24,000+ signed petition against Experimental Seabed Mining?

April 7, 2013 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

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 [...]

Is SOPAC in cahoots with the deep sea mining industry?

April 7, 2013 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

SOPAC Expedites New Seabed Mining Legislation for Lockheed Martin FOREIGN POLICY IN FOCUS | Cross-posted from Moana Nui | MARCH 20 2013 Arnie Saiki is the coordinator for Moana Nui Action Alliance, Currently, US military contractor Lockheed Martin is negotiating with Fiji’s Bainimarama administration to fast-track and sponsor new legislation that would allow the private [...]

Kiwis Against Seabed Mining – Loud and Strong!

November 26, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

Another brilliant campaign video from our friends at Kiwis Against Seabed Mining. Making their voices heard loud and strong against the destruction of their seabeds. Also a video update from activist surfer, David Rastovich (S4C) supporting the campaign to stop seabed mining in the west coast of the north island of New Zealand. PART 3 [...]

Reports Regarding Deep Sea Mining Campaign in Papua New Guinea Released

November 24, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

Subsea World News 20 November 2012 During the past months several reports regarding the deep sea mining campaign in Papua New Guinea were released, Swakopmund Matters informed. The campaign coordinator for the Australian-based organization “Deep Sea Mining”, Dr. Helen Rosenbaum, has authored a significant report on marine mining in Papua New Guinea’s coastal waters entitled [...]

Solwara 1 ecology impact bugs Papua New Guinean Government

November 24, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

The National, Papua New Guinea 20 November 2012 Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says his government wants to be fully satisfied on core issues such as environmental impact before it participates in the Solwara 1 deep-sea mining project. Nautilus Minerals, the developer of the project planned for PNG’s Bismarck Sea, last week decided to terminate construction [...]

People power halts greedy experimental mining plans in PNG

November 16, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

Papua New Guinea Mine Watch 16 November 2012 A powerful and still growing coalition of local people, NGOs, politicians, scientists and lawyers has put a stop – at least for now – to the greedy plans of Canadian company Nautilus Minerals to mine the seabed in Papua New Guinea for gold, silver and copper. After [...]

EIS Review: Foreword by Deep Sea Mining campaign coordinator, Dr. Helen Rosenbaum

November 12, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 0 comments

View and Download the EIS REVIEW The Nautilus Environmental Impact Statement for the Solwara 1 Project was submitted to the PNG Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) in 2008. In 2009 DEC issued the final environmental permit for the development of the Solwara 1 project followed by the granting of a 20 year mining lease [...]

MEDIA RELEASE: Oceanographic assessment blows Nautilus out of the water

November 5, 2012 | Posted by admin in In the News| 1 comment

“The modeling is completely unacceptable by scientific standards … The EIS fails to provide the basic information needed to assess the risk of pollution of the environment or the risk to local communities … The People of PNG deserve better. They should be able to feel confident that the approvals process is open and based [...]