{"id":37660,"date":"2021-10-05T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/05\/new-zealand-ruling-against-deep-sea-mining-set-a-global-precedent-now-ardern-should-ban-it"},"modified":"2021-10-05T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:00:30","slug":"new-zealand-ruling-against-deep-sea-mining-set-a-global-precedent-now-ardern-should-ban-it-phil-mccabe-and-james-hita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37660","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand ruling against deep-sea mining set a global precedent \u2013 now Ardern should ban it | Phil McCabe and James Hita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s court decision affirmed the view that seabed mining is too dangerous, too risky and too harmful to the environment<\/p>\n<p>The decision by New Zealand\u2019s Supreme Court last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/oct\/01\/new-zealand-supreme-court-blocks-seabed-mining-consent\">against a giant seabed mining proposal<\/a> in the South Taranaki Bight is a wake-up call for the world\u2019s would-be seabed mining industry, both in the deep oceans of international waters and for countries contemplating such activities off their own coasts.<\/p>\n<p>The mining operation, proposed by Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR), would have dug up 50 million tonnes of the seabed every year for 35 years, targeting 5m tonnes of iron ore and dumping the remaining 45m tonnes back into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/05\/new-zealand-ruling-against-deep-sea-mining-set-a-global-precedent-now-ardern-should-ban-it\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week\u2019s court decision affirmed the view that seabed mining is too dangerous, too risky and too harmful to the environmentThe decision by New Zealand\u2019s Supreme Court last week against a giant seabed mining proposal in the South Taranaki Bight is a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37660\/revisions\/37661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}