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Is the fate of our deep sea environment in the hands of the mining companies?

Cook Islands News 18 Mar 2023
For some, the issue of seabed mining is not yet on their radar ... Less than 1 per cent of the Cook Islands seabed has been studied. We are only at the very beginning stages of researching our own deep sea now entering a five- year exploration phase for three companies through the Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority.
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Uncrewed Ocean Mapping Vehicle Closing Gaps in Remote Waters

The Maritime Executive 17 Mar 2023
Aurora Elmore, Cooperative Institute Manager at NOAA Ocean Exploration ... The global Seabed 2030 initiative and the National Strategy for Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization (NOMEC) of the US EEZ have set ambitious seafloor mapping goals, which cannot be achieved with the current global survey fleet alone.
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Norway's Loke buys UK deep-sea mining firm from Lockheed

Reuters 16 Mar 2023
The ISA has yet to finalise long-debated regulations that will govern seabed mining in international waters. Norway is also considering opening ocean areas on its extended continental shelf in the North Atlantic for seabed mineral exploration.Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis Additional reporting by Helen Reid in London Editing by Mark Potter.
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Norway’s Loke buys UK deep-sea mining firm from Lockheed

Mining Dot Com 16 Mar 2023
Companies that also hold exploration licences for swathes of the sea floor in the CCZ include Global Sea Mineral Resources (GSR) and The Metals Company ... Norway is also considering opening ocean areas on its extended continental shelf in the North Atlantic for seabed mineral exploration.
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High-stakes talks on seabed mining and mineral exploitation begin in Jamaica

The News International 16 Mar 2023
The talks began in Kingston, Jamaica, seat of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the 167-nation body that regulates exploitation of minerals on the sea floor outside national jurisdictions ... The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea grants authority to ISA to control seabeds outside territorial waters of nations.
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A landmark treaty none too soon

Deccan Herald 15 Mar 2023
There will be designated routes for navigation and restrictions on activities like explorations and mining, especially in the waters and the seabed deeper than 200 metres below the surface ... for exploration and use of the genetic, mineral and other resources in the high seas.
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DC Environmental Film Festival returns in person with docs narrated by Angela Bassett and Jason Momoa

Wtop 15 Mar 2023
We’ll host these programs at 20 different venues ... The film explores a deep ocean threat as a secret organization plans to extract seabed metals to address the world’s energy crisis ... Directed by Ryan White and narrated by Angela Bassett, the film follows Opportunity, the�Mars Exploration Rover affectionately dubbed Oppy by NASA ... Source .
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First market engagement on Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage launched in UK

SAFETY4SEA 10 Mar 2023
The two organisations have issued a joint survey to industry stakeholders to explore and understand market requirements for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development ... “CCUS development is key to how we unlock the full potential of the UK seabed and its contribution to building a net zero future.
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UK Launches Market Study on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage

The Maritime Executive 08 Mar 2023
The Crown Estate and Crown Estate Scotland today started the first round of formal engagement with developers on Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), launching a joint survey to explore and understand market requirements for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development.
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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone: New UN treaty aims to make ...

Phys Dot Org 08 Mar 2023
For 15 years, UN member states have been negotiating rules that will apply to the ocean lying more than 200 nautical miles from coastlines, including the seabed and the air space above, referred to as the "high seas." ... It does not establish an administrative body comparable to that created for seabed mining, however.
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Nine years on, families urge new search for missing Malaysia plane MH370

Arab News 08 Mar 2023
KUALA LUMPUR. Families of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared mysteriously nine years ago, called on the Malaysian government on Sunday to allow US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity to mount a new search for the missing plane ... But its operation came up short ... ($1 = 1.4775 Australian dollars) ....
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LOOK: Families of those on board MH370 urge new search for missing plane

Independent online (SA) 08 Mar 2023
In 2018, the Malaysian government had engaged US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity to search for the aircraft in the southern Indian Ocean, offering to pay up to $70 million if it found the plane, reports CNN. But its operation came up short ... File picture. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters ... File picture. Atar/AFP ... IANS .
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Murder-suicide, shot down by the US... or stolen by Russia and flown to Kazakhstan: On ...

The Daily Mail 08 Mar 2023
The crew last communicated with air traffic control 38 minutes after takeoff, around halfway between Malaysia and Vietnam ... Families of those on board MH370 called on the Malaysian government on Sunday to allow US seabed exploration firm Ocean Infinity to mount a new search for the missing plane, in the hope of finally putting the matter to rest ... .
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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone – a new UN treaty aims ...

The Conversation 07 Mar 2023
For 15 years, UN member states have been negotiating rules that will apply to the ocean lying more than 200 nautical miles from coastlines, including the seabed and the air space above, referred to as the “high seas” ... It does not establish an administrative body comparable to that created for seabed mining, however.
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New treaty plots conservation course for high seas

Urdu Point 06 Mar 2023
The Area comprises just over half the planet's seabed ... Chief among these are regional fisheries bodies and the International Seabed Authority, which currently oversees permits for deep sea mining exploration in some areas and may soon make the controversial move of allowing companies to begin mining.

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