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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 >>
Moratorium on Seabed Mining Sets International Standard
Tuesday, 24 September 2013, 4:04 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign
“The Deep Sea Mining campaign applauds the Namibian government’s decision to impose a moratorium for 18 months on marine phosphate mining” said Natalie Lowrey, communications coordinator for the Deep Sea mining campaign. More >>
Nautilus:: Economic Viability & Environmental Risks
Thursday, 27 June 2013, 3:24 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign
ASIA PACIFIC. Deep sea miner, Nautilus Minerals held it's shareholder meeting yesterday in Toronto, Canada and were questioned by concerned citizens from Papua New Guinea, Canada and Australia about the viability and environmental risks of the company's ... More >>
PNG PM Silent on Environmental Risks of Deep Sea Mine
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 9:14 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign
Last December the Deep Sea Mining Campaign sent a letter to Papua New Guinean Prime Minister , Peter O’Neill. The letter outlined specific environmental concerns about the Solwara 1 mine and requested that documents relating to the approvals process ... More >>
PM recognizes Solwara 1 environmental impact as a Core Issue
Monday, 10 December 2012, 12:11 pm | Deep Sea Mining Campaign
PM recognizes Solwara 1 environmental impact as a Core Issue: What steps will the PNG Government now take? More >>
Oceanographic Assessment Blows Nautilus Out Of The Water
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 9:07 am | Deep Sea Mining Campaign
A new report finds that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) for Nautilus Mineral’s Solwara 1 deep sea mining project seriously downplays the risks facing local communities and the marine environment. More >>
