#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #ExecutiveOrder #UnderseaMining

From Reuters.com: White House weighs executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining, sources say

https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-white-house-weighs-executive-173217924.html

The U.S. gets a new national #MarineSanctuary, the first led by a tribe

By Lauren Sommer
Published October 14, 2024

"More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the #CentralCalifornia coast. The #Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S.

"The sanctuary is also the first to be led by #IndigenousPeople. It was nominated by members of the #NorthernChumashTribe, who drove the effort for more than decade to protect the rugged #coastline that is their historical homeland.

"Going forward, the new #ChumashHeritage National Marine Sanctuary will be managed in partnership with tribes and I#ndigenous groups in the area, who will advise the federal government. It marks a growing movement under the Biden administration to give tribes a say over the lands and waters that were taken from them.

"'We’re still here, and so are the Indigenous people wherever you live,' says #VioletSageWalker, chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, who led the campaign for the sanctuary. 'Being able to address #ClimateChange, use traditional #ecological knowledge, and participate in #comanagement is Indigenous peoples’ contribution to saving the planet.'

"The final sanctuary boundaries are smaller than originally proposed due to California’s burgeoning #OffshoreWind industry. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says it plans to look at expanding the sanctuary in the future.

"National marine sanctuaries are similar to a national forest on land. The new sanctuary will be protected from oil and gas #drilling, as well as #UnderseaMining, while #fishing is still permitted. It also means more public outreach and monitoring for environmental impacts, something NOAA says is vital to understanding how the ecosystem is being affected by climate change."

Read more / listen:
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2024-10-14/the-u-s-gets-a-new-national-marine-sanctuary-the-first-led-by-a-tribe

#LandBack #IndigenousNews #IndigenousPeoplesDay #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalCaretakers #ProtectTheSacred #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

#HypocriSea: The United States’ Failure to Join the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

31.Oct.2019
by Will Schrepferman

"[T]he #UnitedStates cannot claim #Russia and #China to be in violation of a treaty that it is not a party to. When UNCLOS was initially signed in 1982, the Reagan administration refused to accede based on disagreements regarding deep seabed mining. Despite revisions to the treaty in 1994, the Senate refused to hold hearings on the matter. Although Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana finally held hearings in 2004 and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously recommended adopting the treaty, no further action was taken by the Senate."

https://hir.harvard.edu/hypocri-sea-the-united-states-failure-to-join-the-un-convention-on-the-law-of-the-sea-2/

#WaterIsLife #LawOfTheSeaConvention #LawOfTheSea #UnderseaMining #UNConventionLawOfTheSea #UNCLOS

It boggles the mind that #Nauru isn't learning from past mistakes. Also, 10,000 people, who will barely profit from #DeepSeaMining, are buying the hype while #DeepGreen and #GerardBarron disrupts #DeepSeaLife, possibly permanently! Not good...

"#Australia, #NewZealand and #Britain had nearly exhausted the viable deposits of #phosphate by 1968 when Australia granted Nauru sovereignty, leaving behind one of the world’s worst #environmental #disasters."

#Corruption, incompetence and a musical: Nauru’s cursed history

The once-wealthy island now barely survives on income from Australia’s #detention regime and is pinning its economic hopes on #UnderseaMining

Anne Davies and Ben Doherty
Mon 3 Sep 2018

"During the 1990s it transformed into a #moneylaundering haven selling banking licences and passports, including diplomatic passports, which confer immunity. Customers included the #RussianMafia and al-Qaida."
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/corruption-incompetence-and-a-musical-naurus-riches-to-rags-tale

#WaterIsLife #NoDeepSeaMining #Extinction #Environment #UNConventionLawOfTheSea #LawOfTheSeaConvention #UNCLOS #OceansAreLife #RecycleMetals #FindAlternatives #Corruption

"Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed - If mining companies are given the go-ahead to exploit the ocean depths, the environmental cost will be devastating. As the clock ticks down to a crucial deadline in July, Michael Segalov (Guardian) reports"

"For almost 30 years, much of what went on at the secretive-sounding International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica was unreported and scarcely noticed ... There have been allegations of secrecy and interference against its governing body and of legal loopholes being exploited. After discussions chugged along quietly for decades, a growing community of campaigners, scientists and now governments are raising an urgent alarm about what’s happening within these walls. They argue that unless immediate action is taken, it might be too late to halt the devastating environmental and ecological impact of mining the global high seas. Their warning is simple: humanity’s insatiable appetite to plunder the planet for profit might mean some of the Earth’s most untouched corners are exploited before we even understand what it is we risk losing. As Louisa Casson, who is leading Greenpeace’s global campaign to stop deep-sea mining, puts it: “It’s a threat, continental in scale, that until recently nobody was even talking about ...
Regardless, due to a quirk in an ageing international treaty, deep-sea mining might happen in a matter of months after the pulling of a legal lever by a Canadian-owned company and the government of Nauru."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/21/is-it-too-late-to-halt-deep-sea-mining-the-activists-trying-to-save-the-seabed

#Seabed #SeabedMining #UnderseaMining #Mining #Oceans #Environment #Greenpeace #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Capitalism #Profit #Environmental #Jamaica #ISA #Earth #Minerals #Chile #CostaRica #Ecuador #Spain #France #Canada #Nauru