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Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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- Norway to approve controversial deep-sea mining
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I expect this will have no long-term issues at all. There is no way that stirring up this much muck in a sensitive ecosystem will have harmful effects at all. It isn't as if the turbidity levels of the water are crucial to the health of aquatic life at all. The massive resources required to even achieve this feat of human engineering will surely be worth it.
If there's someone with more knowledge on this I am eager to hear their thoughts. It seems as if Norway is receiving some condemnation for this as well, with other nations and governing bodies writing sternly worded letters of disapproval.
I'd also like to know what's this is about.
They are doing it for extracting lithium and cobalt. Don't know what Scandium is used for but the article mentions it's for clean technology. Lithium reserves will also run out one day. Fossil or green fuel, Ecosystem is destroyed either way.
They're probably referring to its use in creating scandia stabilized zirconia, which is used in solid oxide fuel cells.
This is a sad day to be a Norwegian - it got approved in parliament earlier today (none of the parties I have ever voted for said yes, but that doesn't help when the farmers and capitalist parties sees unexploited resources that they can profit off of).
Parliament claims that the approval will lay the groundworks for "profitable, sustainable and responsible mining operations at sea". Good fucking luck doing anything other than ruin our seas and seafloor