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As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
Mongabay News on MSN2d
With deep-sea mining plans in limbo, Norwegian companies fold or dig in
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. BERGEN ...
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How Trump Could Boost Deep-Sea Mining
Credit - Carolyn Cole—Getty Images The Trump Administration is reportedly considering ... Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in ...
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How Trump Could Boost Deep-Sea Mining
Nations are currently negotiating a “road map” that would govern any potential deep-sea mining in international waters. If the U.S. were to move forward with plans to support mining in the ...
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The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images “The Authority is being influenced by a faction of States allied with environmental NGOs who see the deep-sea mining industry as their ‘last ...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean. Pallava Bagla / Corbis via Getty Images Fifty years after his life-changing canoe voyage, Kahoʻohalahala ...
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Norwegian owner of UK deep sea mining company goes bankrupt
Today’s news comes as protestors disrupted a deep sea mining conference in Bergen (images here). Haldis Tjeldflaat Helle, a campaigner for Greenpeace Nordic, said: “On the same day that we shut down a ...