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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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The Conversation Sara Bice | 15 April 2013 Photo: Amid global demand for rare earth minerals, there has been a strong interest in deep sea mining. Flickr\gnews 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 [...]
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‘We want Ministers and a government that believe in a new development model. One that works for PNG and for local people. We want investment in local agriculture, local people, local skills. Not more of these big foreign owned activities that just steal our resources and leave us to suffer the costs.’ [via Papua New [...]
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Too late’ for Govt to vote on saving seabed NZ Herald Jamie Morton | March 8, 2013 Exploration permits already issued to miners. The Government says it was “too late” to vote to protect deep ocean habitats from the threat of seabed mining at the world’s largest conservation congress because it had already issued prospecting [...]
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EMTV 05 March 2013 Deep Sea Mining Activists and concerned groups are still awaiting a response from Prime Minister on environmental impact data.
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National Geographic News Meghan Miner | 1 February 2013 A mile beneath the ocean’s waves waits a buried cache beyond any treasure hunter’s wildest dreams: gold, copper, zinc, and other valuable minerals. Scientists have known about the bounty for decades, but only recently has rising demand for such commodities sparked interest in actually surfacing it. [...]
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Inter Press News Agency Catherine Wilson | 17 December 2012 SYDNEY, Dec 17 2012 (IPS) – The world’s first deep sea mineral (DSM) mining venture in the Bismarck Sea off the northern coast of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific has come to a halt after two years of development. While the mining company [...]
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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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