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Please help stop a new disaster in the Pacific - seabed mining

On 16 Feb, 2012 By Effrey

There is a new environmental and human rights catestrophy looming in the Pacific and we need to stop it happening!

Experimental seabed mining is being pushed by foreign companies despite the risks of an environmental disaster and the fact it is not a sustainable development option for indigenous peoples.

Civil society groups across the Pacific, inclusing ACT NOW!, are calling on our leaders to slow down on this dangerous and untried new industry - but we need YOUR support.

SOPAC has no mandate from Pacific island people to push experimental seabed mining

On 30 Jan, 2012 By Effrey

By Effrey Dademo, ACT NOW! Program Manager

SOPAC, a division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), is pushing ahead with a European Union funded project to promote experimental deep-sea mining in the Pacific region without first consulting with communities about whether this form of mining is environmentally, socially or economically appropriate.

Campaign to prevent experimental seabed mining goes global

On 20 Jan, 2012 By Effrey

The campaign to prevent environmental damage from experimental deep-sea mining has gone global, reflecting the mounting worldwide concern about this new form of mineral extraction.

Care2, an on-line community of more than 17 million people, has launched an on-line petition [1] asking the United Nations to stop experimental deep-sea mining until the potential impacts are known.

The petition has attracted more than 10,000 signatures in just a few days - more than double its original target of 5,000 - and it is still growing.

SPC/SOPAC project on experimental seabed mining disenfranchises Pacific people

On 12 Dec, 2011 By Effrey

By Effrey Dademo

The Deep Sea Minerals Project of the SPC (Secretariat of the Pacific Community) disenfranchises indigenous people and promotes the interests of big mining companies at the expense of local communitiies.

Tell Pacific governments to slow down on experimental deep-sea mining

On 01 Dec, 2011 By Effrey

Pacific civil society is calling on all non-government organisations and concerned citizens to help support a petition on experimental seabed mining at a crucial time in the Pacific.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) in collaboration with the Government of Fiji and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) SOPAC Division is currently hosting an International Workshop on the Exploitation of Deep Sea Minerals, from 29 November to 2 December 2011.

Will we benefit from mining windfall?

On 09 May, 2011 By rait man With 1 Comments

Warke Isaac

Papua New Guineans are being exploited by Australians and other foreign countries.  We are treated as cheap labour and are forced to look on as bystanders as Australian mining companies mine our natural resources.

 Due to the lack of vision and political will of our leaders, many foreigners are taking advantage of our lack of enforcement. 

Our oil, natural gas and gold will continue to be exploited by others. 

Resource Development: Why the hurry?

On 04 Apr, 2011 By rait man

BY ARTHUR WILLIAMS*

QUITE A FEW DECADES ago PNG started logging for export revenue rather than building homes for its people or making furniture. It was explained at the time that commercial logging would benefit the nation as well as the communities that allowed it on their land.

In the 1980s, Pedi Anis, one time Premier and now entrepreneur and friend of the Asian loggers, told the citizens of Lavongai Island that the only way forward for development was to embrace timber felling (despite knowing it was a very poorly regulated industry).

Prominent private lawyer calls for law to govern sea mine

On 31 Mar, 2011 By Effrey With 4 Comments

By TODAGIA KELOLA

THERE must be a specific legislation governing the recent approval by the Government for the world’s first offshore mining project in the country, a senior lawyer has said.

Camillus Narokobi who has written a thesis on the Bismarck Archipelago seas while doing his Masters degree on the studies on law of the sea, said PNG doesn’t have any legislation governing the mining of our seabed.

Pacific should not be used as a testing ground

On 01 Mar, 2011 By Effrey

ACT NOW! and the Fiji based, Pacific Network on Globilization, have joined forces to denounce plans for the Pacific to be used as the testing ground for deep-sea mining.

ACT NOW! and PANG say the Pacific region has already suffered the negative social and environmental impacts of industrial mining on land and should not take further risks with the marine environment.

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