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New Report Exposes Risks In Digital Twin Technology For Deep Sea Mining

Saturday, 2 November 2024, 6:41 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

The new report highlights that the application of Digital Twin Technology and Adaptive Management Systems to DSM is fraught with risks due to the limitations of the technology and significant gaps in knowledge about deep sea ecosystems. More >>

Outrage In PNG As Deep Sea Mining Finance Illegally Mines 180 Tonnes Of Seabed

Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 10:09 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

According to sources, the vessel extracted 180 tonnes of material from the West Coast of the New Ireland Province and has stockpiled even more without authorisation. More >>

TMC Banking On Science Fiction, Not Fact

Sunday, 4 August 2024, 4:57 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

DSMC is concerned that the Digital Twin Technology promoted by TMC as “providing eyes and ears to the regulator and stakeholders” is its latest in smoke and mirrors. More >>

Civil Society Groups File A Formal Complaint Against The Metals Company

Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 8:40 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Letter to the U.S. SEC alleges seriously misleading information in The Metals Company 2023 Annual Report More >>

Three Major Insurers Exclude Deep Sea Mining Reflecting A Growing Industry Trend

Friday, 19 July 2024, 4:16 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Deep Sea Mining Campaign Finance Advocacy Officer Andy Whitmore says “The stance of these major insurance companies to exclude DSM sends a powerful message to the entire financial sector about the viability of DSM. More >>

The Metals Company Thwarted In Its Rush To Mine The Deep Sea

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 7:18 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

After three weeks of negotiations at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) no regulations on deep sea mining were adopted despite wannabe-miner The Metals Company (TMC) and its sponsoring state Nauru attempting to rush the process. This session ... More >>

Australia Can Protect The Ocean By Saying NO To Deep Sea Mining

Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 10:22 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Civil society calls on the Australian government to support a ban or moratorium on deep sea mining as countries from around the world convene at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica to negotiate rules and regulations on deep sea ... More >>

The Metals Company Loses Second Major Investor As Maersk Divests

Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 8:31 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Bad news mounts for the floundering would-be miner The Metals Company (TMC) with The Wall Street Journal reporting the divestment of Danish shipping company Maersk. This follows the divestment last December by Norway’s largest private asset manager, ... More >>

Investors Take Flight From The Metals Company

Thursday, 23 September 2021, 1:07 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Pacific civil society warns that prospective deep sea miner, The Metals Company (TMC) may well go down the same path as the failed Nautilus Minerals . Formed by the merger of DeepGreen Metals and Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp (SOAC), ... More >>

DeepGreen Hell Bent On Forcing Deep Sea Mining On The World At Any Cost

Friday, 3 September 2021, 6:15 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Admits risks to biodiversity “may never be completely and definitively known” 2 September 2021 The prospective deep sea mining company, DeepGreen Metals, is hoping Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corp (SOAC) shareholders will approve the business ... More >>

Greenwash + Blank Check Company Environmental, Social, And Corporate Governance

Saturday, 6 March 2021, 6:23 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

DeepGreen Metals attempts environmental facelift to boost lagging investment  In a further attempt to distance itself from the significant environmental and social costs of deep sea mining, DeepGreen Metals merged with a special purpose acquisition ... More >>

New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining Danger To Pacific Ocean And Island Nations

Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 8:52 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

A new report analysing over 250 peer reviewed scientific articles finds that the impacts of mining deep sea polymetallic nodules would be extensive, severe, and last for generations, causing essentially irreversible species loss. The report, Predicting ... More >>

GAME OVER! Nautilus' Solwara 1 experiment fails

Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 4:13 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Nautilus’ aspirations to be the world's first deep sea miner sink to the bottom of the ocean on news that the project support vessel critical to the development of Nautilus’ deep sea mining project in Papua New Guinea has been purchased for ... More >>

Nautilus are you nuts!

Friday, 12 October 2018, 10:51 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Nautilus are you nuts! Second large earthquake near proposed Solwara 1 site Friday 12 October 2018 More >>

The writing is on the wall for Solwara 1

Wednesday, 17 January 2018, 11:14 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Former Attorney General of Papua New Guinea: The writing is on the wall for Solwara 1 - PNG should withdraw its investment before it's too late. More >>

Papua New Guinea Contests Experimental Seabed Mining

Tuesday, 3 October 2017, 11:30 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Coastal Communities in Papua New Guinea have formally requested that the PNG Government make public key documents relating to the licensing and the environmental impacts of the Solwara 1 deep sea mining project by October 18 or face ... More >>

Apple's Commitment to a No-Mining Future

Tuesday, 2 May 2017, 10:51 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

Scientists and civil society organisations from around the world welcome Apple’s 2017 Environment Responsibility Report announcing the communication technology giant’s goal to “stop mining the earth altogether”[1]. They call on other companies to ... More >>

Public Right to be Informed on Experimental Seabed Mining

Tuesday, 22 November 2016, 12:27 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

PAPUA NEW GUINEA | NGOs and civil society in Papua New Guinea demand that the PNG government and Nautilus Minerals make public key documents relating to the licensing of the Solwara 1 deep sea mining project. This follows a recent decision from the ... More >>

World’s first deep sea mining proposal ignores impacts

Wednesday, 30 September 2015, 12:12 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

As the deep sea mining industry chases investors at the Asia Pacific Deep Sea Mining Summit , a new critique by the Deep Sea Mining Campaign reveals indefensible flaws in the Environmental and Social Benchmarking Analysis of the Solwara project commissioned ... More >>

Deep Sea Mining is not the answer

Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 9:07 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign

PACIFIC | Civil society groups across the Pacific criticise SOPAC and its development of a regional regulatory framework on deep sea mining (DSM). They argue that it facilitates and pre-empts DSM before Pacific Island communities have had the opportunity to debate ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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