2022 / Publication
Planned Marine Phosphate Mining Threatens the Marine Ecosystem and the Fishing Industry
By ESJT Namibia
ESJT opposes NMP's resumed plans to mine the seabed near Walvis Bay. Notes NMP's failure to assess noise, toxin, and sediment plume impacts; highlights that the operation overlaps hake, monkfish, and horse-mackerel breeding grounds; and points to global evidence of heavy metal and radioactive pollution from phosphate mining.
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Press Statements
Year
2022
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ESJT opposes NMP's resumed plans to mine the seabed near Walvis Bay. Notes NMP's failure to assess noise, toxin, and sediment plume impacts; highlights that the operation overlaps hake, monkfish, and horse-mackerel breeding grounds; and points to global evidence of heavy metal and radioactive pollution from phosphate mining.