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2018-04-19 China-Japan-Koreas

Treasure island: Rare metals discovery on remote Pacific atoll is worth billions of dollars

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Posted by gorb 2018-04-19 14:38|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 waiting for a "green" group stealth funded by China to protest mining this.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-19 15:05|| 2018-04-19 15:05|| Front Page Top

#2 An article in the Harvard Environmental Law Review in April 2018 argued that "the 'new global gold rush' of deep sea mining shares many features with past resource scrambles – including a general disregard for environmental and social impacts, and the marginalisation of indigenous peoples and their rights".[12][13] --Deep Sea Mining, Wikipedia
Ambulance chasing Lawyers, Start Your Engines! NGOs and QUANGOs, Spruce up your resumes -- its Showtime!

Posted by magpie 2018-04-19 15:30|| 2018-04-19 15:30|| Front Page Top

#3 the marginalisation of indigenous peoples and their rights

deep sea mining?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-19 15:39|| 2018-04-19 15:39|| Front Page Top

#4 China will claim the island and make a big stink about it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-04-19 15:44|| 2018-04-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 the marginalization of indigenous peoples and their rights

Those poor Merpeople.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-04-19 15:46|| 2018-04-19 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 "Release the ~~Kraken~~ Glomar Explorer!"

Posted by SteveS 2018-04-19 15:49|| 2018-04-19 15:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Minami-Torishima Island, also known as ~~Marcus~~ $Ka-Ching!$ Island

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-19 16:03|| 2018-04-19 16:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Looking for the Europium prices to drop after Brexit.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-19 17:26|| 2018-04-19 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL, Skid.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-19 17:34|| 2018-04-19 17:34|| Front Page Top

#10 #3 the marginalisation of indigenous peoples and their rights

deep sea mining?

Aquaman and Namor are gonna be pissed.

Posted by charger 2018-04-19 19:19|| 2018-04-19 19:19|| Front Page Top

#11 I think Abu has it right.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2018-04-19 19:46|| 2018-04-19 19:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Geez fellas I thought that was what all the shooting was about in Angola
Next you'll try to tell me those were not Cubans I was shooting
Or all those stories about manganese nodules on the ocean floor weren't cover for the Golmar Explorer
Or do the Russians have another missing sub?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-19 20:00|| 2018-04-19 20:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Or do the Russians have another missing sub?

Did they finally find Andrei?

Posted by gorb 2018-04-19 21:38|| 2018-04-19 21:38|| Front Page Top

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