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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 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.
Read morePhosphate mining threatens marine life
Namibian’s speak out against seabed mining. “Marine phosphate mining has never been done anywhere else in the world and Namibian coastal waters are now facing the threat of being the testing ground. These concerns have not yet been adequately considered in Namibia.” – Marcia Stanton, Director of the Earth Organisation Namibia
Read moreNamibia – new wave of diggers now targeting the oceans
Claims Australian mining will destroy Namibian fishing You can listen to Riaan Erksteen from Namibian environment group, Swakopmund Matters on ABC Radio’s PM show, Wednesday 27 June 2012. Riaan talks about how Australian miners UCL and Minemakers seabed proposals will destroy the marine environment, and with it the country’s vital fishing industry.
Read moreNamibian letter to Australian Prime Minister against Australian seabed miners gaining attention
Our Namibian friends at Swakopmund Matters are getting media attention in Australia in regards to their recent letter to Australian PM Julia Gillard. You can read their letter here
Read moreUpdates on campaigns against seabed mining
As a small and growing campaign we not only want to highlight the Deep Sea mining campaign but also the work of people through the Pacific including New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea and the growing resistance to seabed mining in Namibia. Below are a couple of our updates over the past year. Please [...]
Read moreMEDIA RELEASE: Nautilus seabed mining experiment falters
Dispute with PNG government, opposition by Pacific and Canadian citizens, financing woes TORONTO. Today Canadians are standing in solidarity with civil society in the Pacific against deep sea mining. Canadian company, Nautilus Inc, is leading the rush to mine the sea floor in the Pacific. If it goes ahead, its Solwara 1 project in the [...]
Read morePacific Women Activist bear witness in global protest in Rio de Janeiro
SOURCE: PANG/PACNEWS By Online Editor 3:50 pm GMT+12, 20/06/2012, Brazil Women activists from around the world took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to bear witness to the growing inequality within and between nations, ecological and economic injustices and gender injustice across the globe. Activists took to the street to bring the human face [...]
Read moreLetter from Namibian environmental groups against seabed mining
Below is a letter from environmental organisation Swakopmund Matters in Namibia to the Australian government raising serious concerns from Namibian community about Australian companies wanting to mine their seabeds. OPEN LETTER TO: Hon Julia Gillard MP Prime Minister of Australia Hon. Tony Burke, Minister of Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. MARINE PHOSPHATE [...]
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