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Donald Trump has signed a contradictory executive order aimed at strengthening the deep sea mining in the US and in international waters.
The order on Thursday is the last one issued by the US President to try to increase access to America to the minerals used by aerospace, green technology and health care.
The deep sea contains billions of tons of potato breeds, called polymeal nodules that are rich in critical minerals such as cobalt and rare land.
Many other countries and environmental groups oppose the Hlybokaje mining in international waters without additional research.
Last Executive order in the US It is said that “to create the United States as a world leader in responsible mineral exploration,” the said.
It seems that this step is bypassing the long round of UN talks in international waters.
“Authorization of the United States … violates international law and harms the common interests of the international community,” China Guukun, a press secretary of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Friday.
China is dominated by rare land and critical metals such as cobalt and lithium.
Trump was disappointed with this relative weakness of the US positionAnalysts say.
“We want the US to be ahead of China in this resource space under the ocean, on the ocean floor,” an American official said on Thursday.
To achieve this, the order states that the United States will accelerate the process of issuing a license for exploration and resumption of both in its waters and in “non -national jurisdiction districts.”
The administration estimates that the Deep Mora mining can increase the country’s GDP by $ 300 billion (225 billion pounds) over 10 years and create 100,000 jobs
The EU, the UK and others support the moratorium in practice until further scientific research is conducted.
Environmentalists and scientists are concerned that no species that live in the Hlybokaje may harm the process.
“Deep mining is a deeply dangerous endeavor for our ocean,” said Jeff Watters from the Conservance Ocean, an American environmental group.
“The damage caused by mining with the deep sea is not limited to the ocean floor: it will affect the entire column of water, top down, and all and everything that rests on it,” he added on Friday.
It is unclear how quickly the deep sea mining can start, but one mining company, Metals (TMC), has already applied for permits in international waters.
Earlier, TMC CEO Gerard Barron said he was hoping to start mining by the end of the year.
Along with others in the mining industry, he disputes the imposed environmental claims and claims that the abyss zone – from 3000 m to 6000 m below the sea level – has a very low concentration of life.
“There is zero flora here. And when we measure the number of fauna (animal life) in the form of biomass, there are about 10 g per square meter. This is compared to more than 30 kg of biomass, where the world pushes more deduction nickel, which is our equatorial tropical tips,” he said earlier.
A recent document published by the Museum of Natural Sciences and the National Oceanographic Center discussed the long -term effects of deep sea mining from the trials conducted in the 1970s.
It ended What some creatures living in the nozzles were able to remake the site and recover after the test, but the large animals did not return.
Scientists have come to the conclusion that it could have been because there were no more knots to live. Polymeal nodules, where minerals are found, take millions of years, and therefore they cannot be easily replaced.
