Climate activists say that deep-sea mining will increase pollution and destroy biodiversity.
with the U.S. government to renew licenses allowing deep seabed mining exploration in the Pacific Ocean.
“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.
Some people are using the energy crisis as an excuse to push through plans for deep sea mining for minerals used by the renewables industry.
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