Zitat:"Johnston added that certain individuals in the environmentalist lobby were fighting an ideological battle against mining, saying that all mining should end, while others would see no mining happening in the oceans. “We’ve always had an open relationship with environmental lobbyists. We’ve invited them to our annual general meetings, and have always had an open-door policy,” he said, stressing that the world increasingly needed copper to develop....
Johnston noted that there was, however, a strong case to be made for marine mining, arguing that several studies had shown that the majority of marine pollution was coming from land-based mines and industries through the rivers......
Marine mining was also much better than land-based operations, because there were no long-term liabilities of tails dams or waste dumps. “We just mine high-grade ore and send it to China and that’s it.”
The Solwara 1 project would also not impact fresh water sources, such as on land, which could sometimes be in short supply and get politicised owing to the potential long-term impact on the natural resource.......
“These kind of critiques are not science based and are merely an example of free speech in practice. It cannot impact the company’s progress on Solwara 1 to production. Our PNG-based partner Eda Kopa is fully on board with us as we progress wok on the environmental management plan,” Johnston said....." ENDE Zitat
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