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Dr John Luick and the Deep Sea Mining campaign dismiss Nautilus defence of EIS
On 6 November 2012, the Deep Sea mining campaign released a new report authored by Oceanographic expert, Dr. John Luick. The report found that the Nautilus minerals Solwara 1 EIS seriously downplays the risks facing local communities and the marine environment in Papua New Guinea. Download Nautilus statement defending the EIS, below is Dr. [...]
Read moreEIS Review: Foreword by Deep Sea Mining campaign coordinator, Dr. Helen Rosenbaum
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 [...]
Read moreNautilus seabed mining project jeopardized again
Mining.com Cecilia Jamasmie | October 24, 2012 Canada-based Nautilus Minerals Inc. (TSX&LON:NUS) sank to fresh lows Wednesday in London, falling almost 5%, hit by the news of a Papua New Guinea’s landowners petition to the Government to cancel the firm’s seabed mining permit. The company, the first to explore the ocean floor for polymetallic massive [...]
Read moreSpeech by New Ireland representative against Nautilus Solwara 1 deep seabed mining project
Respoted from Stop Experimental Seabed Mining facebook page Below is the speech presented by Mr. Oigen Schulze, team leader of New Ireland-based NGO, Zero Inc. He states the position of people in his West Coast New Ireland community. This speech was presented on the 23rd of October at the Holiday Inn, where 24,000 signatures against [...]
Read morePNG locals want to stop seabed mining project
Australian Mining 24 October, 2012 | Vicky Validakis Locals in Papua New Guinea have petitioned the government to stop a seabed mining project along the nation’s coast. A petition with 24,000 signatures was given to Mining Minister Byron Chan yesterday, stating that residents of Madang, Oro and New Britain provinces do not want the project [...]
Read morePNG landowners want seabed mining stopped
The Herald Sun via AAP Eoin Blackwell 23 October 2012 LANDOWNERS in Papua New Guinea have petitioned the government to halt a controversial seabed mining project along the nation’s coast. Mining Minister Byron Chan on Tuesday was handed a petition with 24,000 signatures from residents of Madang, Oro and New Britain provinces who say they [...]
Read moreVIDEO: 24,000 Petitioned Against Sea Bed Mining
EMTV 23 October 2012 A petition containing twenty four thousand signatures to stop the Solwara-1 deep-sea mining project was handed over to the government on Tuseday 23 October 2012
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