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Protect 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 [...]

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Dr Jack says no to seabed mining

Solomon Star By Elliot Dawea | Tuesday 16 April 2013 Photo: http://blogs.oceanswatch.org/solomons-png/?m=201108 A lecturer in education at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Solomon Islands Campus has petitioned the Temotu Provincial Government against underwater mining. Dr Jack Maebuta made the petition through online appealing for all members of the Temotu Public Forum on facebook [...]

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New Ireland Communities Angry with Mining Minister

‘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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Questions come up about Deep Sea Mining, Papua New Guinean parliament

EMTV The Sea Bed Mining issue came up again, this time during questions in Parliament yesterday. The questions centred on the negative impacts, this project may have on the environment. For answers, views and comments, the Department of Environment and Conservation will host a forum in the coming months.

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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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PNG government petitioned to stop seabed mining

Radio New Zealand 24 October 2012 Landowners in Papua New Guinea have presented a petition to the government calling for a controversial plan to mine the seabed to be stopped. A petition with more than 20,000 signatures has been given to the Mining Minister Byron Chan by residents from the provinces of Madang, Oro and [...]

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