Eoin Blackwell | AAP
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 do not want Canadian-owned Nautilus Minerals’ Solwara 1 project in PNG’s Bismarck Sea to go ahead.
The project is the first of its kind in the world and will see minerals – mostly copper and gold – extracted from the ocean floor.