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Environmental activists protest Norway’s move to allow seabed mining exploration
euronews (in English)
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10/01/2024
The vote has opened an area of the Norwegian Sea nearly as big as Italy to deep-sea mining exploration - an activity that scientists fear might destroy marine life.
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On Tuesday, foreign activists and the Norwegian environmental movement gathered outside the
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parliament, where a vote took place on seabed mining.
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The government is proposing to open up an area in the Arctic almost the size of Italy
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to this type of extraction.
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Norway has become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial
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practice of commercial scale deep sea mining.
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The bill, passed on Tuesday, will accelerate the hunt for precious metals, which are in
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high demand for green technologies.
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