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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 [...]
Read moreQuestions 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.
Read moreNautilus 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 [...]
Read moreSpeech 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 [...]
Read morePNG 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 [...]
Read morePNG 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 [...]
Read moreVIDEO: 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
Read morePNG 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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