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The Chagos Islands – A New Frontier for Mauritian Deep-Sea Mining?
A Dispute of Sovereignty The Chagos Islands have, until this week, been referred to as the British Indian Ocean Territories. On Thursday (October 3), the new UK Government agreed to cede their disputed claim and return sovereignty to Mauritius. The dispute dates back to the decolonization and independence of Mauritius…
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The Rio Choapa Intervention
A Case Study in Preventive Environmentalism: The Critical Role of Literature Review EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In May 2018, our founder was commissioned by Poseidon Offshore Mining to plan a sampling survey on the coastal lagoon and mouth of Rio Choapa in Coquimbo, Chile. Poseidon provided data on gold occurrences in the…
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Deep-Sea Mining in a Changing Political World
“There is a sense, a dawning sense, that the past structure of international relations has become irretrievable” Very recently, I had an interesting conversation with Professor James Scourse (University of Exeter), a leading proponent of the United Kingdom’s Moratorium on Deep-Sea Mining: and, although our position on exploration differs, we…
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Norway Approves Deep-Sea Mining Exploration Licence
In 2018, I visited the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU), for a conference on Deep-Sea Mining. During the Q&A, I remember a minister standing to ask “how long until we can get these nodules?” to support the Norwegian Governments’ drive towards wind power. In the last few days,…
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