Tag: Deep Sea Mining
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This is the Moment to Stop Deep Sea Mining
BY JULIA BARNES Image by TJ Fitzsimmons Can you imagine a mine so large it would span the continental United States? An industrial project this size is currently being planned. It is the first attempt at deep sea mining in international waters. The Clarion Clipperton Zone, an area located between Hawaii and Mexico in the…
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Stop Deep Sea Mining Before it Happens
BY JULIA BARNES This article was originally published in Counterpunch. Image by Julia Barnes Even as the ocean struggles under the assaults of industrial fishing, ocean warming, pollution, and acidification, corporations are pushing to exploit it in a new and dangerous way. Deep sea mining includes plans to extract polymetallic nodules from the sea floor. Commercial exploitation…
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5 Reasons to Ban Deep Sea Mining
BY JULIA BARNES Image by Sebastian Pena Lambarri Exploitation of the deep sea may begin in less than two years. Here’s why it should be stopped. If removed, polymetallic nodules would not recover on anything but a geological timescale. They grow incredibly slowly — at a rate of 10mm per million years. Drawing of a cross…
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The Green Deceit of Deep Sea Mining
BY JOSHUA CLINTON This article was originally published in Counterpunch. Image by Cameron Venti “To build a green future, in the next couple of decades the world will need to mine more metal than we’ve mined in our entire history” says Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company. There’s some truth to that statement — if we…
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