Scientists fear that even before one of the last frontiers of exploration, the ocean deep, has been properly studied it will already have been exploited by commercial deep-sea mining looking for rare metal and minerals on the ocean floor, leaving its unique ecosystems badly damaged.
Friday the 26th August, marked a decade of halt to plans by an AIM-listed British company, Global Coal Resources Management (GCM), who want to build a massive open cast coal mine by forcibly displacing 130,000 people in Phulbari, northwest Bangladesh.
The former Rio Tinto majority-owned extractive venture hit world headlines when the Nasioi became the world’s first indigenous people to compel a major multinational to abandon one of its most valuable investments during a bid to defend their land against environmental destruction.
The Bougainville Government is launching an international campaign to pressure Rio Tinto and the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments to fund the clean-up of the Panguna mine environmental disaster.
The Bougainville Government is launching an international campaign to pressure Rio Tinto and the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments to fund the clean-up of the Panguna mine environmental disaster.
