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Global Brands Back Moratorium on Seabed Mining

Source: Pacifik Environews

Four leading global companies have announced their support for a global moratorium on deep seabed mining. Initiated by BMW Group and WWF, and signed by Samsung SDI, Google and Volvo Group, the companies join the increasing chorus of concern about the significant risks to economies and to ocean health that would arise from opening up the seabed to extraction of minerals.

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COVID catering scandal highlights govt failure to publish reports

Eddie Tanago, Campaign Manager

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Pacific call for global ban on deep sea mining

Source: Radio New Zealand

A widespread Pacific civil society call for a global ban on deep sea mining activity has been launched.

The Pacific Regional NGO Alliance of church and civil society groups kickstarted their campaign to stop deep sea mining yesterday in Fiji.

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Proposed Frieda mine dam risks entire villages

A man paddles a canoe on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea A man paddles a canoe on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea Photograph: Renato Granieri/Alamy

Source: The Guardian

Entire villages would be wiped out if a natural disaster hit dam on PNG mine, critics say. 

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Success: Sand mining proposal defeated

A controversial plan by the Singapore based Powerplus Group, to mine sand along a 38 kilometre stretch of coastline in Madang has been defeated.

The government regulator, the Mineral Resource Authority, has written to mining opponents informing them that the mine exploration application has been withdrawn.

This comes after the sand mining application was met with strong opposition from local communities and environmentalists and concern from local tourism operators.

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New Video Launched: From Extraction To Inclusion.

A new doodle-style video has been launched that explains how Papua New Guinea’s reliance on large-scale mining and export logging has failed to improve the lives of most people and why PNG now ranks below its Pacific neighbors on most development indicators.

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Log tax increase having positive impact

The increase in duty on round log exports, introduced in the 2020 budget, is having a positive effect according to analysis conducted by ACT NOW!

The higher export duty has both increased government revenue and driven down the level of logs exports inline with government policy.

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Sinking Seabed Mining

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Papua New Guinean, Australian, and New Zealand civil society welcome ban on seabed mining in the Northern Territory

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Poor corruption rating costs the economy and hits essential services

Papua New Guinea’s international corruption rating has slipped a further one-point, from 28 to 27, in the latest figures released by Transparency International. 

This is bad news for the economy and a sad reflection on the state of our democracy.

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Campaign Against Deep Sea Mining Continues

PNG communities will have their day in court! | Deep Sea Mining: Out Of Our  Depth  

By Grace Lima (Post Courier, 14 January 2021)

The campaign against deep sea mining in the Bismarck Sea by the Alliance of Solara Warriors (ASW) still continues.

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