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A message for the PNG government: Keep calm and stop experimental seabad mining

 

Source: PNG Mine Watch

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Vanuatu Women: No to Seabed Mining

Source: PNG Mine Watch

The President of the Vanuatu National Council of Women (VNCW) Mrs. Blandine Boulekone, has said that women in Vanuatu totally disagree with the Deep Sea Mining in Vanuatu Waters.

In a statement to the Daily Post yesterday morning, Mrs. Boulekone strongly expressed the Vanuatu Women’s opposition to such projects.

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Solwara 1 Project: A long term disaster for PNG

Source: Pacific Business News

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Pacific Indigenous people address World Leaders on Experimental seabed mining

Source: EMTV online

Pacific indigenous people made their stand clear on seabed mining at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Speaking on behalf of the Pacific indigenous people, Dr Samson Viulu from the Solomon Islands addressed the world leaders, reiterating the facts of the lifestyles of Pacific people and their dependency on the marine environment.

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Seabed mining impact on whales unclear

 

Source: Radio New Zealand

Whale Watch Kaikoura says seabed mining in the Chatham Islands should not be approved until its effect on whales is researched.

Exploration company Chatham Rock Phosphate has already gained a permit and now needs permission from the Environment Protection Authority in order to mine 1.5 million tonnes of phosphate a year for fertiliser.

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Seabed mining presentation focuses on the environment


Gerald McCormack, Director of the Natural Heritage Trust. The Cook Islands’ exclusive economic zone contains 10 billion tonnes of manganese nodules like those inset, according to a geological assessment.

Source: Cook Islands News

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Pacific Islanders against seabed mining

Source: Solomon Star

PACIFIC Indigenous peoples have voiced their united stand against any proposed seabed mining.

Solomon Islands Dr Samson Viulu who spoke on behalf of the pacific indigenous peoples made it clear before world leaders during the UN General Assembly in New York.

He said its important to halt any plans to carryout seabed mining in the pacific.

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Protected Corals could be wiped out by deep sea mining in NZ

Source: PNG MIne Watch

Mining phosphate from the seabed of the Chatham Rise would remove a protected coral species crucial to the local ecosystem, an Environmental Protection Agency hearing into a seabed mining proposal was told this morning.

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NZ bid to stop Seabed Mining

Source: PNG Loop

A hearing began in Wellington, New Zealand today on Chatham Rock Phosphate’s (CRP) application to mine 5000 square kms of the seabed on the Chatham Rise, in the waters off New Zealand’s east coast.

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Stop Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific

STOP EXPERIMENTAL SEABED MINING IN THE PACIFIC MESSAGE ON THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES

Carlos Kleeman and Arnie Saiki at the So Cal Climate Action 350 rally in Los Angeles

Source: PNG Mine Watch

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