Canadian government supports moratorium on commercial seabed mining
Yesterday the Canadian government said it supports a moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction and the federal government will not support the provisional approval of a plan of work. The announcement was made by three cabinet ministers: Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources, and Joyce […]
The Metals Company Announces Extensive Deep-Sea Environmental Data Submission to the International Seabed Authority
2023-03-28 06:20:30 TMC’s subsidiary NORI submits data collected during two benthic baseline campaigns on the NORI-D area, adding more than 270,000 benthic biological occurrences to the International Seabed Authority’s ‘DeepData’ catalogue of contractor exploration data. This submission is part of a broader dataset of hundreds of terabytes of data collected by leading independent scientists and […]