Experts Alarmed over Trump’s Promotion of Deep-Sea Mining in International Waters

Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.

Tesla unwilling to talk about deep sea mining concerns, non-profit says « Carbon Pulse

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla did not engage with requests for dialogue about its position on deep sea mining before it applied for the blocking of a shareholder proposal on the topic, according to a non-profit investor in the company.

Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems. By Teresa Tomassoni In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast swath of international waters located in the Pacific Ocean that spans around …

Stephen Vasciannie | Trump and the deep seabed

On April 24 United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on seabed mining which has major implications for the work of the International Seabed Authority, based in Kingston, Jamaica. The authority as well as most states in the international community will be obliged to challenge the Executive Order because it threatens to drive the proverbial horse and carriage through the deep seabed regime in international law that has been m…

Donald Trump's Maga-stroika breaks the order that Western imperialism has sustained for 70 years Political analyst Simplicius wonders in his substack whether Donald Trump's "MAGAstroika" will mean for the U.S. a revival in the style of that carried out by Julio César, a chemotherapy for globalism or simply Perestroika for the end of history. What is evident from the very beginning is...