Why Pacific Island States Are Concerned About Deep-Sea …
A concern for many Pacific states is that deep-sea mining in the Blue Pacific will become a new theater of resource conflict as high-income states descend on …
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Mining in the Pacific | 11 | Principles and practices for …
This chapter gives an overview of past mining practices in the Pacific, drawing on notorious 'onshore examples' with poor regulation including in Papua New Guinea (gold and copper mining) and phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba. ... regulatory systems across the region despite some advances by jurisdictions like Cook Islands, PNG, and Fiji ...
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In the race to mine the seabed, China takes a hard line
That's when the Pacific island nation of Nauru kicked off a contentious countdown by triggering a rule requiring regulations be enacted within two years. The ISA missed that deadline on July 9 ...
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Development of the Legal Framework for Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific
Abstract: Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are making a great effort to introduce legal infrastructure associated with deep sea mining in order to balance their obligations to protect the environment and further develop their economy. However, the extent and scale of this progress related to legal infrastructure vary country to country. To examine the …
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Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the …
Even with those partners — the Pacific islands of Nauru and Tonga, which have a combined population of 120,000 and are nowhere near the mining zone — the firm has maintained nearly complete ...
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Pacific Islands | Countries, Map, & Facts | Britannica
Pacific Islands, geographic region of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises three ethnogeographic groupings—Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia—but conventionally excludes Australia, the Indonesian, Philippine, and Japanese archipelagoes, and the Ryukyu, Bonin, Volcano, and Kuril island arcs beyond Japan.
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Nauru: An Island Country Destroyed by Phosphate Mining
Nauru is a small island country, a speck in the Pacific Ocean, with an area of only 21-square-kilometers. It is the smallest state in the South Pacific and third smallest state by area in the world. ... Mining also affected marine life surrounding the island as silt and phosphate runoff contaminated the waters. The site of secondary mining of ...
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Mining in the Pacific: Past History, Present Practice, …
Those Pacific mining history studies there are make up in quality for this lack of quantity. The most important are Ion Idriess's and Edmond Demaitre's 1930s classics, ... 5 R. W. Robson, The Pacific Islands Year Book (Sydney 1944), 282. Quoted in …
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Protect Our Ocean | The Pacific Blue Line
The Pacific Blue Line is a statement declared by five Pacific civil society activist groups against Deep Sea Mining.
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Seabed Mining in the Pacific Ocean: To mine or …
Deep seabed mining under the Pacific is a trending topic and proponents promise new riches and less dependence on terrestrial mining while detractors point to the potential known and unknown environmental …
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The Tiny Nation at the Vanguard of Mining the Ocean Floor
Two ships arrived in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific in March of last year. One was a familiar sight: a massive cruise ship, bringing hundreds of tourists to the pristine shores of this ...
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Wildcatting the Pacific: Seabed mining and the Pacific islands
Since July 2023, the mercurial business of deep-sea mining in international waters has been trapped in an uncertain regulatory environment — and some of the Pacific Islands stand to benefit.
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Seabed mining a disturbing new threat to the Pacific
My Pacific Island brothers and sisters are already fighting to ban deep sea mining, to draw a Pacific Blue Line against the latest threat exported from the West. From Vanuatu to Fiji, the Cook Islands to Tonga and Papua New Guinea, activists are sounding the alarm and I stand in solidarity with them.
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Climate Finance and Geostrategic Interests in the …
The Pacific Islands Region: While Pacific Island countries occupy a land mass of only 300,000 square miles, their total exclusive economic zone spans 7.7 million square miles of ocean.
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Mining on the Resource-rich Island of Fiji's Viti Levu
Fiji's Viti Levu is rich in minerals and relatively underexplored, making the South Pacific island nation a top frontier mining jurisdiction. Fiji's prime location along the Pacific Ring of ...
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'Blue Peril' reveals how deep-sea mining would …
A new film has revealed the scale and nature of the impacts that deep-sea mining would have on life in the Pacific Island region, from direct damage to seafloor ecosystems, to tailings waste and sediment …
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Prohibiting Deep Seabed Mining in the Pacific Ocean: An …
The growing global movement to stop deep seabed mining comprises strong local movements of CSO activists in the Pacific Island region and elsewhere, global …
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Pacific Islands Forum 2024: Deep Sea Mining, …
How does Deep Sea Mining Affect Australia? Australia, as a close neighbour and significant player in the Pacific region, has a vested interest in the outcomes of the Pacific Islands Forum. With its …
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Understanding the Precautionary Principle
mining both within EEZs and the International Seabed Area (the Area). In 2011 SPC, with funding provided by the EU, began implementation of a four year project: Deep Sea Minerals (DSM) in the Pacific Islands Region: A Legal and Fiscal Framework for Sustainable Resource Management. The key objectives of the project are:
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High-level regional political group on deep sea mining …
Thursday, 14th April 2022: The Pacific Parliamentarians' Alliance on Deep Sea Mining (PPADSM) has been officially launched as a high-level political voice that will advocate …
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SEA FREIGHT TO THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
"Shipping Containers to the Pacific Islands for over 20 years" ... depending on the shipping line routing. CargoMaster provides on-forwarding services to almost anywhere in The Pacific. If needed, CargoMaster will organise customs clearance and door delivery of your consolidated cargo too. ... (and on flat racks) including, mining machinery ...
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The Threat of Mining on Deep Sea Ecosystems
Where mining goes, death follows. From sediment plumes to ecosystem disturbance, deep sea mining is a disaster waiting to happen. Deep sea mining would risk marine life, ecosystem balance, and human lives and livelihoods for an unnecessary endeavor. A Closer Look at Deep Sea Mining Operations Impact on Pacific Island …
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11.4: The Pacific Islands (2 Days)
TEKS Regional Unit 11 Oceania: Chapter 11.4 The Pacific Islands. WG.1A Analyze the effects of physical and human geographic patterns and processes on the past and describe their impact on the present, including significant physical features and environmental conditions that influenced migration patterns and shaped the distribution …
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Precautionary Management of Deep Sea Mining …
To date, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu have granted deep sea mining exploration permits, and the Cook Islands is part-way through a minerals …
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The Cook Islands (South Pacific) experience in governance …
The Cook Islands (CI) is a self-governing small island developing state in the South Pacific region. It comprises 15 separate islands or island groups spread over an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of around 2 million km 2 (Fig. 1) Cook Islands EEZ is situated between latitudes 6° and 25° South and Longitudes 155° and 168° West.The …
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Pacific island of Nauru sets two-year deadline for U.N. deep-sea mining
The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has notified a U.N. body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority (ISA) two years to complete long-running talks on ...
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Dynamics of Logging in Solomon Islands: The Need for …
Worldwide, tropical forests are highly vulnerable to industrial exploitation. During the past century, tropical Asia-Pacific islands, ranging from Malaysia to the Solomon Islands and westward across the equatorial Pacific, have experienced severe forest loss and degradation, exacerbated by some of the worst-known land-use …
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Pacific Islands remain divided on deep-sea mining as trial …
Pacific countries remain divided as a deep-sea mining company prepares to test a system to extract minerals and metals from the ocean floor.
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