ABC Background Briefing Program - DEEP SEA MINING
Reporter: Ann Arnold
A project to dig minerals from the sea bed off Papua New Guinea could signal a new era of mining in the world’s most remote and least understood environment, the deep sea.
Mining companies are excited, ecologists are worried, and struggling island nations are watching with interest.
See ABC - October 2013
abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2013-10
Back in December 2012 the Solomons Islands deputy prime minister Manasseh Maelanga has appealed to resource owners not to support under-water mineral exploration.
Radio New Zealand International
rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=72908
and
Solomon Star News
solomonstarnews.com/news/national/16710-be-wary-of-under-water-exploration-maelanga
A collection of information about
Surfing in the Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands.
Further to this story:
ReplyDeleteSOLOMON STAR NEWS
Dr Jack Maebuta added such study needs to be undertaken by an internationally reputable independent body so as to maintain ethical and neutral reporting.
“Temotu is a sea of mostly atoll islands, you mine our seabed you mine our life.”
http://www.solomonstarnews.com/news/national/17860-dr-maebuta-provincial-leaders-fail-its-people
FROM THE BBC
It is because the area is geologically unstable that they want to mine there.
A podcast from the BBC:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/discovery/discovery_20130520-2000a.mp3
and the page it came from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/discovery