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Thank you @james_hita and the @Greenpeace team for bringing our inspiring #Pacific partners to the @ISBAHQ meeting in #Jamaica #NoDeepSeaMining https://twitter.com/greenpeacenz/status/1637984690719080449

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Jonathan Mesulam from #PapuaNewGuinea -@NoDeepSeaMining partner of 12 years and coordinator of the Alliance of Solwara Warriors - makes his intervention calling to #BanSeabedMining at the @ISBAHQ Council meeting in Jamaica #DefendTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining https://twitter.com/DeepSeaConserve/status/1638229879064854528

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United Nations member states agree on a legal framework for portions of the ocean outside of national boundaries after nearly 20 years of negotiations.
#HighSeasTreaty
#NoDeepSeaMining
#UN
Credit@guardian

Nouvelle avancée !
Grâce au travail de @nthierry@twitter.com et de la société civile, l'Assemblée Nationale adopte une résolution demandant un moratoire international sur l'exploitation minière des #fonds #marins et son interdiction dans les eaux françaises ! @marietouss1@twitter.com #NoDeepSeaMining

Des images inquiétantes ont fuité et montrent des pollutions importantes déversées dans l'#océan Pacifique lors des phases de test de l'exploitation minière des grands fonds marins.
Suivons le principe de précaution, stoppons cette folie.
#DefendtheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining

@nodeepseamining #deepseamining #nodeepseamining #SaveOurSeas #SoSSaturdays 🌊

Countdown to #DeepDay 2022! Celebrate the critical role the deep ocean plays in making life possible & showcase the key threats to a healthy, productive #DeepSea 🐙
Find out about some of the activities happening on Dec 5th: http://www.savethehighseas.org/deepday-2022/ #DefendTheDeep #nodeepseamining #ocean @DeepSeaConservation

Did you know? The Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean is set to become the biggest mining operation in history with potentially irreversible damage to marine life and coastal communities
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Most of the species found around nodules in Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific are found nowhere else on earth
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Deep sea mining may lead to the extinction of these diverse marine lives
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#BluePeril #NoDeepSeaMining
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www.blueperil.org

Jonathan Mesulam from the Alliance of Solwara Warriors in Papua New Guinea has been campaigning against #DeepSeaMining for over a decade and continues to call on the Marape Government to cancel all licences and to #BanDeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining

The Metals Company $TMC continues to push its PR machine into overdrive to exploit the world's ocean despite its test #DeepSeaMining operation in the #Pacific #Ocean coming under fire.

👉 https://dsm-campaign.org/2022/11/22/tmc-pr-machine-in-overdrive/

#NoDeepSeaMining

Media Release
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/ DEEP SEA MINER WANTS TO PUSH AHEAD WITH SOLWARA 1 PROJECT //

Community leaders call across Papua New Guinea for seabed mining to be banned and all licenses to be cancelled.
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA | On 4 October 2022 local communities in New Ireland Province discovered that deep sea miners have bought off Nautilus Minerals assets. Deep Sea Mining Finance and Sustainable Mining Solutions have formed a joint venture and are pushing decision-makers in Papua New Guinea to open up the Solwara 1 deep sea mining project in the Bismarck Sea.

According to Jonathan Mesulam, Director of West Coast Development Foundation, and member of the Alliance of Solwara Warriors, the companies have been in the country and meeting with the government since May this year (2022).

“When is the PNG Government going to make its stance very clear on the issue of seabed mining in PNG and stop secret meetings with deep sea miners behind closed doors?”

"We are all aware that the Solwara 1 project has cost the people of Papua New Guinea more than K375m. It was declared a failed project by former PM Peter O’Neill back in 2019. Why is the government still silent on this issue?” continued Mr. Mesulam.

“We are raising these questions because it seems that the Marape-Rosso government does not have the guts to come out publicly to share the latest developments surrounding the Solwara 1 project – despite PM Marape backing Fiji PM Bainimarama's call for a moratorium at the Pacific Island Forum in 2019.”

For over a decade there has been resistance against seabed mining across PNG from civil society, local communities, churches, and educated elites. The Alliance of Solwara Warriors is very concerned that the PNG government and provincial governments of New Ireland and East New Britain have not listened to the people and are risking lives, livelihoods and the Bismarck Sea.

“Coastal and low-lying island and atoll communities of PNG are already severely impacted by climate change with rising sea levels and food security issues. Seabed mining is another additional burden. Our ocean must be protected at all costs,” stated Mr. Mesulam.

John Momori of Caritas PNG, Kavieng Diocese, who have backed the call for a complete ban on seabed mining stated:
“Despite Nautilus Minerals going bankrupt in 2019, their existing exploration and mining licenses are still active across the Bismarck and Solomon Seas. Since 2019 we have been calling for the licenses to be cancelled and for the government to place a ban on seabed mining.”

In the last two weeks, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) negotiations took place in Kingston, Jamaica. However, the ISA’s push to move forward on deep sea mining in international waters has been stymied by the growing call against deep sea mining, not only from civil society, scientists, and corporations globally, but also parliamentarians and governments are calling for a pause, moratorium or complete ban on the industry.

“Deep sea mining is not wanted!" claimed Mr. Momori.

"The PNG Government should be following in the footsteps of other Pacific states like Fiji, Samoa, Palau, and the Federated States of Micronesia which have now been joined by New Zealand, France, Germany, Spain, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and Chile in calling for a pause, moratorium or complete ban,”

“Instead the PNG government is lagging behind both Pacific and international leaders.”

As concerned PNG citizens and under the banner of the Alliance of Solwara Warriors representing communities in New Ireland, East New Britain, Manus, Madang, Alotau and Bougainville we now called on the Marape-Rosso government to:

1. Stand with other nations across the world to say no to seabed mining;

2. Make public statements on the government’s position at national and high-level conferences like the COP27 taking place in Egypt this month; and

2. Cancel all existing seabed exploration and mining licenses in Papua New Guinea.

“We also call on our political leaders in our respective coastal provinces to come out publicly and state their position on the issue of seabed mining,” concluded Mr. Mesulam
Alliance of Solwara Warriors

#NoDeepSeaMining
#BanSeabedMining
#DefendTheDeep
#PapuaNewGuinea
#BismarkSea
#Ocean canva

The Deep Sea Mining Campaign (DSMC) has moved over from Elon is a Twit (Twitter) to @Mastodon #Mastodon

The Deep Sea Mining Campaign (DSMC) has had a consistent focus on #DeepSeaMining as an emerging and very real threat to the world’s oceans for over 10 years.

Our unique approach combines research and evidence-based advocacy, finance advocacy and collaborative solidarity with frontline communities, and regional and international partners and networks.

Approximately 2 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean Floor is currently under exploration leasehold for deep sea mining to national governments and private companies within both territorial and international waters.

We hope you will join us in saying #NoDeepSeaMining and follow us on FB and IG with the handle @nodeepseamining

For now, take a look at #BluePeril a visual investigation of deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean

If you haven’t heard of #DeepSeaMining make sure to follow us @nodeepseamining and watch our visual investigation #BluePeril that looks at the potential impacts of deep sea mining goes ahead in the #Pacific.

There is a growing global movement led by Pacific communities to stop deep sea mining before it starts.

DeepSeaMining is not wanted. France 🇫🇷 Germany🇩🇪, Spain🇪🇸, Costa Rica🇨🇷, Panama🇵🇦, Ecuador🇪🇨, New Zealand🇳🇿, Samoa🇼🇸, Fiji🇫🇯, Chile🇨🇱, Micronesia 🇫🇲 and Palau🇵🇼 have all called for a pause or moratorium.

In the Pacific we are calling to #BanDeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining

https://blueperil.org

Heute morgen haben wir die Petition «Die Schweiz muss Flagge zeigen für den Meeresschutz» eingereicht. 16’393 Personen fordern darin den Bundesrat auf, sich bei den UN öffentlich für wirksamen Meeresschutz einzusetzen. #ProtectTheOceans #NoDeepSeaMining

https://act.gp/3t7qPWw

Wenn sogar Konzerne wie @Google, @Samsung und @BMW öffentlich ökologische Bedenken äussern und ein Moratorium für Tiefseebergbau fordern, ist es sicherlich wirklich keine gute Idee. Darum: #NoDeepSeaMining

https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirtschaft/721528598-wie-schweizer-firmen-die-tiefsee-zum-rohstoffabbau-nutzen-wollen

Ein internationales Forschungsteam hat 2 Mia. DNA-Sequenzen von Organismen aus der Tiefsee analysiert: Zwei Drittel der Lebewesen sind uns völlig unbekannt! Schützen wir diese geheimnisvolle Welt bevor es zu spät ist.
#NoDeepSeaMining
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/erst-ein-drittel-der-lebewesen-in-der-tiefsee-bekannt-129203827736

Greenpeace-Aktivist:innen aus CH, DE und NL protestieren in Rotterdam gegen #DeepSeaMining.

Die Schweizer Firma Allseas bereitet da ihr Schiff Hidden Gem auf erste Test-Expeditionen vor.
#ProtectTheOceans #NoDeepSeaMining

https://act.gp/31JEOIw