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Madang Peoples Forum calls on PNG Minister, Byron Chan to shelve seabed mining
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. [...]
Read moreProtect Oceans. Protect Marine Life. Protect Livelihoods. No Experimental Seabed Mining.
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 [...]
Read moreProtecting Earth’s Final Frontier — The Deep Sea
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 [...]
Read moreThe Pacific Conference of Churches calls for a moratorium on seabed mining
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 [...]
Read moreDr Maebuta: Provincial leaders fail its people
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 [...]
Read moreGreen light given to explore for minerals in Fiji’s seabeds
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 [...]
Read moreDiepzeemijnbouw – Deep Sea Mining
A recent article in Dutch magazine KIJK called ‘Diepzeemijnbouw’ (Deep Sea Mining) quotes Dr. Helen Rosenbaum from the Deep Sea Mining campaign. In summary Dr. Rosenbaum talks about how we cannot predict what the impacts of Deep Sea Mining will be that we already have problems containing mining’s impacts on land and that that it [...]
Read moreMining Extreme Depths
HuffPost Live March 16 2013 Companies around the world are aiming to cash-in on deep-sea mining expeditions. Is this the future, or are the consequences of mining the unknown too great?
Read more“… what proof can you tell me that seabed mine will make a difference?”
Wence Magun, Deep Sea Mining campaign steering committee member recently spoke to Television New Zealand (TVNZ) about why shouldn’y be rushing into deep sea mining in the Pacific. You can see the full transript to the speech here. Wence is also the national coordinator for PNG NGO Mas Kagin Tapani, he recently attended the Second [...]
Read moreMr Chan what has come of the 24,000+ signed petition against Experimental Seabed Mining?
Deep Sea Mining campaign steering committee member, Patric Kaiku refers to a photo from last year of PNG Mining Minister, Byron Chan when a petition coordinated by ACT NOW! and PANG of over 24,000 signatures was handed over to him – still no response from Mr. Chan: “This was the moment in October last year [...]
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