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Nautilus criticisms are urban based: Togolo

Are you smellin what I'm sellin? I think this is a negative slanted article.Although initially it is positive it ends with a negative vibe.

Ian Hetri | PNG Loop

Nautilus Minerals, has been eyeing the seabed minerals off Papua New Guinea (PNG) since the 1990s but then became locked in a lengthy dispute with the PNG government over the terms of the operation.

With the current agreement with the State government, Nautilus’s country manager in PNG, Mel Togolo says that the company’s highly controversial Solwara 1 project is gaining momentum.

However, as with all mining operations, deep sea mining raises questions about potential environmental impact on surrounding areas.

Environmental advocacy groups such as Greenpeace have argued that seabed mining should not be permitted in most of the world’s oceans because of the potential for damage to deep sea ecosystems.

There has also been widespread campaign against the undersea mining in PNG.

Mr Togolo however says that all this criticisms are urban based and that those in the villages invite Nautilus Minerals.

The question however remains. Do those in the villages been educated enough to make informed decisions about both the positive and negative impacts of undersea mining?

Mr Togolo told PNG Loop that Nautilus has been using basic educational materials like pamphlets and role plays to educate the people in the project area.

Are these methods effective enough and if they do, what are the guarantees that the rural mass understand the highly complex scientific nature of undersea mining; is yet another mystery Nautilus has to justify.

However convincing Togolo may have sound to other media personals present, he later admitted to PNG Loop that the science of underwater mining remains very complex.

When pressed by PNG Loop to comment on the status of the independent research and the credibility of the researchers involved, Mr Togolo replied that Nautilus engages consultants as well as government researchers.

He decline to comment on the credibility of the researchers involved that again casts a shadow of doubt over Nautilus Mineral’s highly controversial operation, the Solwara 1 project.


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