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The International Seabed Authority is working to set regulations for deep-sea mining as companies engaged in the clean energy transition clamor for more minerals. The seafloor, especially in parts ...
TMC has acknowledged that deep sea mining will have an environmental impact, but it is less damaging than terrestrial mining, and trade-offs are required to guarantee transition mineral supplies.
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Seabed mining, also known as Seafloor mining [1] is the recovery of minerals from the seabed by techniques of underwater mining. The concept includes mining at shallow depths on the continental shelf and deep-sea mining at greater depths associated with tectonic activity, hydrothermal vents and the abyssal plains .
Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a U.N. agency that presides over the international seabed concluded its last meeting of the year on Wednesday.
The environmental impact of deep sea mining is controversial. [11] [12] Environmental advocacy groups such as Greenpeace and the Deep Sea Mining Campaign [13] claimed that seabed mining has the potential to damage deep sea ecosystems and spread pollution from heavy metal-laden plumes. [14] Critics have called for moratoria [15] [16] or ...
Briony Venn, Greenpeace UK oceans campaign, said: “Deep sea mining is a dangerous industry and we must not be complacent in allowing it to gain a hold on our precious seabed.
However, companies have argued that deep sea mining is cheaper and has less of an impact than land mining. Most of the current exploration is focused in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, which ...