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Pacific Conference of Churches congratulates Vanuatu MP for mining stand
PACNEWS 18 June 2013 SUVA, Fiji — Pacific leaders should follow the example of Vanuatu Lands Minister Ralph Regenvanu and introduce legislation which will protect communities from the ravages of extractive industry. The Pacific Conference of Churches General Secretary, Reverend Francois Pihaatae, said Monday that Regenvanu’s bid to ensure that the principal of free informed [...]
Read moreChurches say No to Deep Sea Mining
Island Business 18 June 2013 SUVA, Fiji — The Pacific must not be allowed to become a testing ground for deep sea mining and regional governments must stop issuing licences immediately. Pacific Conference of Churches Treaties Adviser Murray Isimeli said yesterday the region could not afford damage to the environment from testing. “There is no [...]
Read more“No Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific” Outside Lockheed-Martin in Los Angeles, CA
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 [...]
Read moreMadang Peoples Forum calls on PNG Minister, Byron Chan to shelve seabed mining
Papua New Guinea Mine Watch 12 June 2013 Madang People’s Forum (MPF) is calling on the Mining Minister Byron Chan to follow Vanuatu’s lead and shelve experimental seabed mining in Papua New Guinea. Spokesman Mr Alfred Kaket said, this project must be stopped until our government has all the information it needs regarding this project. [...]
Read moreVanuatu Minister calls on Pacific govts to respect people’s wishes on experimental seabed mining
[Related Articles: Island Business, PAC News, Radio New Zealand International, Radio Australia, Papua New Guniea Mine Watch, ABC News and Vanuatu Daily Digest] Papua New Guinea Mine Watch 10 May, 2013 From the Opening address by the Hon. Ralph Regenvanu, Minister for Land and Natural Resources, Government of the Republic of Vanuatu at the Regional Training [...]
Read moreProtect Oceans. Protect Marine Life. Protect Livelihoods. No Experimental Seabed Mining.
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 [...]
Read moreProtecting Earth’s Final Frontier — The Deep Sea
Huffington Post 31 May 2013 Richard Steiner It may be understandable that a terrestrial primate such as ourselves would pay little attention to a world so foreign, inaccessible, and inhospitable as the deep sea, but with growing threats to the region, it’s time we do so. Historically, most human interaction with the ocean world [...]
Read moreProspects of riches in the deep
The National David Crossland 31 May 2013 Strewn across the Pacific seabed lies a vast treasure worth thousands of billions of euros. And it is there for the taking. It just needs to be scooped up. No drilling required. The greyish-black, potato-sized rocks, known as “nodules”, do not look very inspiring. But they are packed [...]
Read moreBBC News: Deep sea mining ‘gold rush’ moves closer
BBC News 18 May 2013 The prospect of a deep sea “gold rush” opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer. The United Nations has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called “nodules” – small mineral-rich rocks – from the seabed. A technical [...]
Read moreThe Pacific Conference of Churches calls for a moratorium on seabed mining
Island Business 29 May 2013 SUVA, Fiji — The Pacific Conference of Churches has renewed its call for a stop to all sea bed mining research in line with a resolution by regional church leaders in Honiara last month. PCC General Secretary Reverend Francois Pihaatae made the call after regional governments began to design laws [...]
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