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To respond to the growing interest in deep-sea mining (DSM), laws on seabed minerals (SBM) in exclusive economic zones (EEZs) have been introduced recently in Tonga (2014), Tuvalu (2014), Kiribati (2017), and the Federated States of Micronesia (2018); and the Cook Islands (Revised 2019) [1].These laws are necessary for states without mining …
The growing global movement to stop deep seabed mining comprises strong local movements of CSO activists in the Pacific Island region and elsewhere, global conservation …
A new film has revealed the scale and nature of the impacts that deep-sea mining would have on life in the Pacific Island region, from direct damage to seafloor ecosystems, to tailings waste and sediment plumes.
Pacific Islanders live the harsh reality of climate change every day, while the United Nations strives for fair deep-sea mining of crucial green metals. Balancing environmental concerns, equity and economic needs, the International Seabed Authority navigates a complex path, empowering small states like Nauru to develop into commercial ...
A handful of postage-stamp nations in the South Pacific launch an uphill battle against the deep-sea mining of unattached, fist-sized rocks rich in rare earth metals. The stakes are potentially ...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — A moratorium on deep-sea mining established by a group of Pacific island nations has struck a blow to the Solwara 1 project in Papua New Guinea, once poised to be the first …
The story of why the Cook Islands—the tropical paradise my dad emigrated from, where I spent many summers as a child, eating mangoes in the lagoon with my cousins, going for rides in my uncle's cement mixer, and watching my grandma suck the eyes out of fried fish—became a focal point in an emerging extractive industry could be said to begin in 1957.
Expectations that nodule mining would generate social and economic gains for Pacific island economies are based on conjecture and are unsubstantiated. The impacts of nodule mining on communities and people's health and food security are understudied and require rigorous independent investigation.
Opencast mining has exacerbated land degradation in New Caledonia, a French archipelago located in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Developed since the 1880s, mining has become the major economic ...
A concern for many Pacific states is that deep-sea mining in the Blue Pacific will become a new theater of resource conflict as high-income states descend on identified clusters of polymetallic nodules.
Traditional Dimensions of Seabed Resource Management in the Context of Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific: Learning From the Socio-Ecological Interconnectivity Between Island Communities and the Ocean ...
By Lyanne Togiba. SYDNEY/HONIARA/PORT MPORESBY (THE GUARDIAN) — Mining is big business in the Pacific. Guardian analysis of trade data can reveal that each year nearly 11m tonnes of fuel and oil (the equivalent of 1100 Eiffel towers) are extracted from the region, 2m tonnes of copper, nickel, manganese and aluminium are mined, and gold worth US$2.6bn is …
Forests of Asia-Pacific islands have undergone degradation by some of the worst-known selective logging practices in the tropics. It is unclear whether severely damaged forests can return to a pre ...
The Isabel Nickel Project is widely considered one of the largest nickel laterite deposits in the Pacific and is made up of a number of deposits in Isabel Province of Solomon Islands with the key deposits being San Jorge and Kolosori. The Company was granted a formal mining lease for the San Jorge tenement in September 2018.
- Alluvial Mining: PNG, Solomon Islands - Underground mining: e.g. Vatukoula Gold Mine, Fiji - Open pit: e.g. Ok Tedi Copper Mine, PNG; Gold Ridge, Solomon Islands. • Marine mining is a relatively new method of developing mineral deposits and ongoing since the 1960s; • Deep sea mining is a new frontier in mineral development.
With rich deposits of minerals in their exclusive economic zones, deep sea mining promises Pacific islands wealth, enhanced international status and leverage—for example, …
Deep Sea Minerals Potential in the Pacific Islands region. Interests in deep sea minerals within national jurisdiction and in 'the Area'. The SPC-EU EDF10 Deep Sea Minerals Project. …
Pacific Community Cataloguing-in-Publication Data SPC Technical Report SPC00035 An Assessment of the Costs and Benefits of Mining Deep-sea Minerals in the Pacific Island Region: deep-sea Mining Cost-Benefit Analysis / Pacific Community 1. Mines and mineral resources – Management – Oceania. 2. Mining – Oceania. 3.
While some are concerned about the potential harms of large-scale mining, others believe an injection of mining wealth is exactly what the country needs. Louisa Castledine, …
My Pacific Island brothers and sisters are already fighting to ban deep sea mining, to draw a Pacific Blue Line against the latest threat exported from the West. From Vanuatu to Fiji, the Cook Islands to Tonga and Papua New Guinea, activists are sounding the alarm and I stand in solidarity with them.
10 The works that have now drawn upon and extended Hau'ofa's work are numerous, and notable works include Greg Fry, 'Framing the Islands: Knowledge and Power in Changing Australian Images of the "South Pacific"', Contemporary Pacific 9, no. 2 (Fall 1997): 305–44; James Clifford, 'Indigenous Articulations', Contemporary Pacific 13, no. 2 (2001): …
This includes a look at the legislative regimes of several Pacific Island nations, namely, Papua New Guinea, Tonga and the Cook Islands, for whom deep seabed mining may soon become a reality ...
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Pacific Nickel Mines (ASX:PNM) is an ASX listed Direct Ship Ore (DSO) nickel producer, with two projects located on Isabel Island, Solomon Islands. The Company holds an 80% shareholding in both the Kolosori and Jejevo Nickel Projects, with the local landowners associated with each project retaining the reaming 20%.
Cook Islands Prime Minister and former chair of the Forum, Mark Brown is urging Pacific Island leaders to come together on a collective stance on deep-sea mining, ahead of a key talanoa session set for next month.
The island, a tiny dot in the vast South Pacific that lies at the southern tip of Solomon Islands, is home to a few thousand people. ... The carrier, hired by mining company Bintan Mining Solomon Islands, had been attempting to load bauxite from a nearby mine on the island. It spilled 300 tonnes of oil into the pristine bay. The water turned ...
However, a number of Pacific governments including those of the Cook Islands and Nauru have backed exploration activities. Economic strains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the need for Pacific small island developing …
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103881 Corpus ID: 213264613; Deep-sea mining legislation in Pacific Island countries: From the perspective of public participation in approval procedures
Twenty-nine Tuvalu government employees successfully completed a 10 day training workshop in the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) conducted by technical officers from SOPAC from August 4 to the 17th in Funafuti.. SOPAC provides assistance to 19 island countries and territories in the Pacific region through applied geoscience and …
Since August 2012, Paul Lynch has led the Cook Islands' Seabed Minerals Authority, which oversees development of the islands' national seabed mineral resource.A lawyer with over 25 years of wide and varied legal experience in the private sector, Commissioner Lynch is shaping deep sea mining as an industry, both in the Cook Islands and on the international …
