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. [...]
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[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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Solomon Star Wednesday 29 May 2013 University of the South pacific (USP) lecturer Dr Jack Maebuta said Temotu provincial government (TPG) has failed to consult the people when the Blue Water Metal mining company undertake their prospecting. In a statement yesterday Dr Maebuta said many people are ignorant about the likely impact of such mining [...]
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As the first world obsession continues to grow for high-tech gadgets like smart phones and computers, tin has suddenly shot from just being the ordinary tin can to a high-tech mineral. But resistance is growing as the environment and local communities are placed at great risk with seabed mining of tin. A recent report released [...]
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The push to mine the seabeds of Fiji has now become a reality with the granting of licences to Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology or KIOST, Nautilus Minerals and Bluewater Minerals Australia. This is despite Fiji NGO, Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) getting legal advice on Fiji’s draft seabed mining legislation which highlighted [...]
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