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Letter to the Department of Environment and Conservation in Papua New Guinea

Solwara 1 is a unique project of worldwide significance but key aspects of its approvals process remain “behind closed doors”. In the interests of transparency and informed debate, the Deep Sea Mining Campaign have called upon the DEC (via the Acting Secretary) to release at a minimum the full data set behind the EIS, the [...]

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Reports Regarding Deep Sea Mining Campaign in Papua New Guinea Released

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 [...]

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Solwara 1 ecology impact bugs Papua New Guinean Government

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 [...]

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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. [...]

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EIS 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 [...]

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Nautilus 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 [...]

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Speech 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 [...]

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PNG 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 [...]

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PNG 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 [...]

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VIDEO: 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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