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Is the next mining boom on the ocean floor?
The Conversation Sara 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 [...]
Read moreBritain uses the world’s largest defense contractor to join the rush to plunder the deep seas in the Pacific
Britain uses the world’s largest defense contractor, American owned Lockheed Martin, to join the rush to plunder the deep seas in the Pacific … meanwhile SOPAC is questioned by leading Pacific NGO about their role in Lockheed seabed mining bid. In the following news articles they talk about the minerals that Lockheed will be aiming [...]
Read more8000 sign PANG petition in bid to block Pacific deep seabed mining
Pacific Scoop Rachel Reeves 28 August 2012 A petition bearing more than 8000 signatures is being circulated among Forum participants this week as part of a regional effort to arrest seabed mining projects in the Pacific. A coalition of non-government organisations, which includes the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) and Act Now! PNG, is here [...]
Read moreCampaigners urge Forum to look at moratorium on sea-bed mining
Radio New Zealand Anti-seabed mining campaigners have urged Pacific Island Forum members meeting in Rarotonga to place a moratorium on the activity. Maureen Penjueli of the Pacific Network on Globalisation says the governments should take a cue from Australia’s Northern Territory which has placed a three year ban on the activity. Ms Penjueli says mining [...]
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: International Law Supports Moratorium on Experimental Seabed Mining
27 August 2012
Read morePacific groups to launch legal opinion on Precautionary Principle and seabed mining
Media Advisory: Our Large Ocean Islands States Vision: Regaining a Sacred Custodianship; Avoid Undermining Our Pacific 27 August 2012
Read moreDeep Sea Mining Campaign in The Guardian
Papua New Guinea’s seabed to be mined for gold and copper The Guardian Oliver Milman Monday 6 August 2012 Government approves world’s first commercial deep-sea mining project despite vehement objections over threat to marine life.
Read moreAvaaz.org hosts Stop Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific petition. SIGN IT NOW!
Sign the Petition on Avaaz.org – ‘Stop this treacherous experiment and help thousands of indigenous pacific people protect their marine environment and their way of life!’ SIGN NOW The Pacific Network on Globalisation to Pacific leaders at a regional forum later in the year.
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