Norway greenlights deep-sea mining exploration • FRANCE 24 English
It’s Western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer and now Norway is poised to become one of the first countries to explore its ocean floor on Tuesday Parliament approved gradually opening up a 280,000 square kilometer area in the Arctic for mining exploration it is kind of a major State
Back to have uh Norway which is usually a champion country uh towards oceans to um go and want to open deep sea mining in the Arctic last last year Norway’s offshore directorate published a report which concluded that substantial resources are in place on the seabed including minerals such as copper and
Zinc the government argued these were needed for its green transition and has so far ignored calls for more research into the impact of deep sea mining Norway seems to have this idea that deep sea mining will uh become uh the solution for the green transition which
Is a really odd uh uh uh idea I mean uh what we see internationally is more and more countries are moving away from Deep Sea mining the EU does not want minerals from the seabed nor does the business community so this is something that Norway stands for alone Norway says environmental
Considerations will be taken into account during all stages of the deep sea mining process for now there’s no timeline set for when the exploration of its seabed will begin
Norway’s parliament on Tuesday adopted a government plan to open up parts of its seabed to mining exploration, despite protests from activists and scientists’ warnings about the uncertain environmental impact.
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3 comments
Norway has a grip on reality. Net zero is unachievable dangerous magical thinking..
It is very concerning that deep sea mining will impact on climate change.
All the poor plankton and krill and seafloor worms. No one ever stands up for them!