Environmental activists protest Norway’s move to allow seabed mining exploration

euronews (in English)

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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00:00 On Tuesday, foreign activists and the Norwegian environmental movement gathered outside the

00:05 parliament, where a vote took place on seabed mining.

00:10 The government is proposing to open up an area in the Arctic almost the size of Italy

00:14 to this type of extraction.

00:18 Norway has become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial

00:22 practice of commercial scale deep sea mining.

00:25 The bill, passed on Tuesday, will accelerate the hunt for precious metals, which are in

00:30 high demand for green technologies.

00:32 Go away!

00:33 (whooshing)

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