DO NOT SAY has been preparing for this deep-sea mining for some time now. But subsidiary GSR (Global Sea Mineral Resources) is currently, with some delay due to corona, with the ship the Normand Energy operating in the Clarion Clipperton Zone, a deep-sea region somewhere between Hawaii and Mexico. (see map).
MSR is conducting exploratory exercises there with a view to possible exploitation and at the same time examines the possible impact ecosystems. Because it could not only be local, but also broader. Greenpeace has traveled along and has already carried out some protests, last week and also this week.
There is not yet certainty about a concession, but it can be achieved. The International Seabed Authority (ISA), an organization under the wing of the UN, has to speak out later, because it concerns international waters. By the way: this search for manganese tubers is not new: it already happened in the 1970s, but it came to a standstill then. There were plenty of alternatives: oil was the black gold and there were plenty of mines on the land.
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