UK Seabed Resources Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on July 9, 2019, 10:26 pm, in reply to "New Greenpeace Report Warns of ‘Irreversible Harm’ from Deep Sea Mining"
From p.7 of the report, available here (pdf): https://storage.googleapis.com/planet4-international-stateless/2019/06/f223a588-in-deep-water-greenpeace-deep-sea-mining-2019.pdf '[W]hile the UK government pursues a ‘Blue Belt’ policy of marine protected areas, a government minister recently told parliament that Lockheed Martin’s subsidiary UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) “made reference to the helpfulness of the British Government as it pursued its licence” for exploratory activity,23 and as Christopher Williams from UKSR told British MPs in autumn 2018, the company receives diplomatic support from the UK government at the ISA.' At over 130,000km2 UKSR have been awarded the largest exploration area of any individual contractor with just 2 licenses. By comparison the next highest is COMRA based in China with +255+ licenses amounting to around 88,000km2 in total. Something stinks...
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