Oceania: Pacific Should Not Be Used As A Testing Ground

Oceania: Pacific Should Not Be Used As A Testing Ground   Two campaign organizations, based in Fiji and Papua New Guinea, have joined forces to denounce plans for the Pacific to be used as the testing ground for deep-sea mining. ACT NOW! and the Pacific Network on Globalization say the Pacific region has already suffered the negative social and environmental impacts of industrial mining on land and should not take further risks with the marine environment. "Rather than allowing ourselves...

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