The Cook Islands will be ready to harvest precious metals from the ocean floor in just five years.
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The impact of carbon emissions from undersea mining hadn’t previously been assessed, writes Gerald McCormack, from the Natural Heritage Trust. He analyses the risk and advises a precautionary approach.
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GSR Exploration Manager and marine geologist Francois Charlet said their research was successful. “We did a lot of deployment of freefall grabs to collect samples. We collected about 469kg of nodules which is quite a lot,” said Charlet.
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our Cook Islanders are to be included in a research team embarking on an expedition to explore the seabed near Aitutaki this month.
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CI SBMA GIS Officer, Rima Browne partook in a 3-week voyage with New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) as part of their ROBES (Resilience of benthic communities to the effects of sedimentation) project.
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Cook Islands’ declaration of two million square kilometres of ocean as “sacred” captured the imagination of delegates at a major oceans conference in New Caledonia this week.
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In the first week of April, the northern group outer islands of Rakahanga and Manihiki were the final island communities in the Pa Enua to receive the latest seabed minerals sector update and draft SBM Bill presentation.
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The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) has training opportunities available for Cook Islander graduates to do internships in Singapore and Korea.
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The Seabed Minerals commissioner, Paul Lynch, new director of the National Environment Service, Nga Puna, Crown counsel Alex Herman and chief financial controller for the Cook Islands Investment Corporation Allan Jensen paid a visit to Wellington last month.
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