Comment from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
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Summary: The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) opposes the deep seabed mining exploration licenses for American Metal Resources, LLC and SeaX, Inc. They provide an extensive list of scientific studies, legal precedents, and organizational statements highlighting the environmental risks, biodiversity loss, and lack of scientific understanding associated with deep-sea mining.
Comment from Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) (upload 9)
Attachments
- NRDC_source index AMR SeaX (PDF)
- AMR and SeaX_exploration license apps_NRDC comments (PDF)
- Aggarwal_Marine plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1980 says biodiversity report (PDF)
- Keeling et al (XLSX)
- Keeling et al (PDF)
- NASA_Ocean Warming_Earth Indicator (PDF)
- NOAA_DSM technical guidance 1981 (PDF)
- NOAA_OMCO Final Environmental Impact Statement (PDF)
- NOAA_Programmatic EIS 1981_comp 1 (PDF)
- NOAA_Programmatic EIS 1981_comp 2 (PDF)
- NOAA_Programmatic EIS 1981_comp 3 (PDF)
- Scripps CO2 Program Mauna Loa Record Gallery (PDF)
- The World Bank_Life below water (PDF)
- 46 FR 45883-45920 (PDF)
- BOEM_Sound Source List_Mar2023 (PDF)
- Business Wire_American Ocean Minerals Announces Anuanua Moana (PDF)
- Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Act 2019 (PDF)
- EO 14285 (PDF)
- Harnois et al. Entanglement of marine animal in marine renewable energy mooring system (PDF)
- ISA Regulations (PDF)
- ISA_ Consolidation-of-Part-XI_e-book (PDF)