Battle Over Deep-Sea Mining Takes on New Urgency as Trial Run Winds Down

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : More recently, Nauru, on behalf of the Metals Company, invoked a provision in the agency's rules that would compel the Seabed Authority to settle on environmental rules by next July.
53% : "There should not be any mining until and unless we can ensure the effective protection of the marine environment," said Georgina Guillén-Grillo, who serves as Costa Rica's delegate to the International Seabed Authority, an agency affiliated with the United Nations that has jurisdiction over deep-sea mining and is now meeting in Jamaica to hammer out proposed environmental requirements and decide next steps.
52% : , the Metals Company, through a corporate entity whose assets it now owns, recruited the tiny Pacific island of Nauru as a sponsor for mining in areas that were set aside by the Seabed Authority for poor or developing nations.
52% : If the agency misses the deadline, the company can submit an application to begin mining, even without the regulations in place.
49% : The $250 million expedition, which also includes a companion ship with dozens of marine scientists equipped with underwater audio, video and water-quality-monitoring devices, is meant to evaluate the environmental impact of mining in waters so unknown that many plants and animals are not classified by science.

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