A-Dub 🥝CBC: "There are billions of tonnes of valuable minerals for electric vehicle batteries and energy storage at the bottom of the ocean, and a Canadian-registered company is leading the race to mine them."
me: those minerals are not **for** electric vehicle batteries or energy storage. they're naturally occurring and sea beds deserve to be left in peace.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/seabed-mining-isa-trump-9.7136815
#UnderminingISA #InternationalLawOfTheSea #ResourceExtraction
U.S. pushes ahead on deep-sea mining. The rest of the world isn’t so sure | CBC News
Even as the race to mine the ocean floor for important minerals intensifies, a UN-body tasked with establishing regulations for the emerging industry ended a key global meeting this week without a new mining code.