Exprimental Seabed Mining

While the multi-national companies are projecting their benefits in Kina and Dollars we have already started "benefiting" by living on stench from the dead marine life. Is this the sign of kind of life we will live with for the duration of this project? Reports of dead fish and other marine life first appeared on social media (PNG Loop) last night and now re-posted here from ramunickel: Dead sea creatures causing awful smell in Namatanai Loop PNG Unusual deep sea creatures and fish and other marine creatures are dying in Namatanai, New Ireland Province, from a cause the local people are yet to find out. Naomi Watong, a local woman from Konos village in the Central New Ireland district of Namatanai told Loop PNG that the sea creatures have been dying since Saturday April 9, 2016 at around 12 midday  until  now (April 13). She said the villagers found out about the dead fishes when alerted by children who went out for a swim on that day. “We went and got the fish...

Recently China passed the country's first law on deep seabed mining that is designed to protect the marine environment and ensure sustainable exploitation of its mineral resources. Now, did Papua New Guinea do this before allowing Experimental Seabed Mining in the Bismarck Archipelago?  Here ramunickle writes briefly on China's law on deep seafloor mining. China Passes Seafloor Mining Law by ramunickel Unlike PNG, China has put a law in place to regulate Experimental Seabed Mining BEFORE licensing any operations - common sense really! The Maritime Executive | 27.02.2016 On Friday, China passed the country's first law on deep seafloor mining. The law is designed to protect the maritime environment and ensure sustainable exploitation of its mineral resources. Xinhua reports that the law stipulates that exploration and development should be peaceful and cooperative, in addition to protecting the maritime environment and safeguarding the com...