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After five days of a non-stop kayak activity around the MV COCO, the vessel was safely climbed by five Greenpeace International activists on November 25. Credit: Greenpeace
The representatives of 167 countries at the International Seabed Authority will discuss this week possibility of the expulsion of Greenpeace from the UN deep-sea mining body.The Metals Company says the research trip interrupted by Greenpeace was for science aimed at improving knowledge of the effects of nodule collection.
It says the work had been requested by the ISA as part of an impact assessment, and that Greenpeace deliberately hampered those efforts when its activists boarded the company’s research vessel. Greenpeace says the action was justified because The Metals Company has stated its plans to proceed with mining before regulations have been agreed upon.
Minerals and metals such as cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese can be found in potato-sized nodules on the ocean floor. Reserves are estimated to be worth anywhere from $8 trillion to more than $16 trillion, and they are in areas where companies, including The Metals Company, plan to target.
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