'Mining the deep sea is as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow,' warns CenterForBioDiv's Miyoko Sakashita.
"Mining the deep sea is as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow."A leading conservation group on Friday sounded the alarm after military-industrial complex giant Lockheed Martin filed anwith the U.S. government to renew licenses allowing deep seabed mining exploration in the Pacific Ocean.
"The areas of the deep sea where mining contracts have been issued support some of the most biodiverse and scientifically important ecosystems on Earth." "Mining the deep sea is as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow," Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director at the Center for Biological Diversity ,Although there are no current commercial deep seabed mining operations, the International Seabed Authority hasChina, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, and South Korea, and to private corporations including U.K. Seabed Resources, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin.
, forced the federal government to study the danger to ecosystems posed by such licenses—says deep seabed mining is fraught with risks.The areas of the deep sea where mining contracts have been issued support some of the most biodiverse and scientifically important ecosystems on Earth.
"Before the Biden administration acts, it must take a hard look at this growing threat to the world's oceans," said Sakashita, who urged the federal government to"follow the lead of West Coast states and ban deep seabed mining."
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