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Dismantling the Fireda Mine: An Analogy from Avisak by the N’gegos

Sepik River l East Sepik Province l 28 May 2021 The Frieda river Gold and Copper mine can be likened to a vehicle. When it first started and was in the exploration stage. We, the people of Avisak would see helicopters bussing and whooshing across the sky almost every day, back and forth the project site. We would see barges and boats going up and down the Avisak. We had numerous visits from the…

Where Does Canada Stand on Deep Sea Mining?

(Ottawa/Port Moresby) Last week, Jonathan Mesulam travelled from his home in Papua New Guinea in the south Pacific to speak about deep sea mining at an international conference on climate change and mining organized by MiningWatch Canada.  Mesulam’s community, on the island province of New Ireland, has the dubious distinction of being the first Indigenous people on Earth to have spent nine years…