Why the Rush?

These uncertainties are The ISA’s Legal and Technical Commission due to the experimental nature of the which drafts the Mining Code is closed to mining as well as the lack of knowledge civil society participation, despite receiving about the ecosystems of the deep ocean direction from the ISA Assembly to meet in and the ways in which these connect with open sessions. [...] He used the in the absence of meaningful public opportunity to promote his company and debate and with little consideration of the to urge the ISA towards completing the precautionary principle and the free, prior deep sea Mining Code. [...] Its financial prospects depend Audit Committee of the UK House of on the finalisation of the ISA seabed Commons, the UN Envoy on Oceans at Mining Code and the Pacific regional the World Economic Forum in Davos, seabed mining treaty. [...] The Some investors in first-mover seabed urgency of the species extinction crisis mining companies have already made we now face demands a moratorium handsome profits based on speculation on the development and the adoption about the possibility and the potential of seabed mining regulations as well of DSM in the Pacific Ocean, without as on the issuing of exploration and undertaking any actual mi [...] Papua New Guineans are calling on their government Malnic took photographs of Binns’ to learn from the costly mistake of samples and also managed to investing in the Solwara 1 project and snap some of the navigational to cancel all the licences they issued to charts identifying the location of Nautilus.17 the smoker.