President Trump commanded the US government to take a long step to spread the ocean floor, which is the extensive assassination of the ocean floor, the extent of international waters.
The order signed on Thursday would damage a contract for decades that we ratified each larger coastal nation other than the United States. It is the last example of the Trump administration to ignore international organizations, and it is likely that America is likely to cry out of their opponents and allies.
The order “The United States is creating a seabed as a global leader in both the national jurisdiction and outside the national jurisdiction” The text published by the White House.
Mr. Trump's decree instructs the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration to allow companies to mines in both international and US terrain waters.
The parts of the ocean floor are tired of potato-dimensional nodules such as cobalt and manganese, which are important for advanced technologies, which are critical for economic and military security in the United States.
No commercial scale seabed cultural happened. Technological barriers are high and there are serious concerns about the results of the environment.
As a result, in the 1990s, most peoples agreed to join the independent international seabed government, which will manage the mine of the ocean floor in international waters. Trump leadership is not signing, not signing the US The Dark 1980 Law The federal government allows the seabed to leave mining permits in international waters.
Many nations are eager to see the bottom of the sea to become a reality. However, it should not exceed the risk of dominated consensus, economic imperatives, economic imperatives, or influence the most important role of the planetary warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The order of Mr. Trump comes after years of delays in ISA in the establishment of a regulatory base for the seabed cultural. The government has not yet agreed to the set of rules.
The executive order, a prominent seabed mining company, can actively get a way to a prominent seabed mining company, to get a quick permission from NOAA. Social commercial company located in Vancouver, British Columbia,, announced in March For me in international waters, he would ask Trump management through a US subsidiary. The company has already implemented more than $ 500 million in intelligence.
“We have a ship ready to produce,” he said. “The Allied friend has a tool to process materials in a common nation. We simply lose the permission to allow us to start.”
In the event of the cultural end, companies such as him invested in the development of technology for me for its ocean floors. These include ship with autonomous vehicles connected to the Gargantuan vacuumes, which will fall to the bottom of the sea, as well as the ocean's bottom.
Some analysts are currently in the need to escape the seabed of the sea, taking into account that the traditional mining is a resident of nickel and cobalt. In addition, manufacturers of electric vehicles, one of the main markets of metals, are moving towards battery designs that trust in other elements.
However, the forecasts of future demand for metals are usually high. Mr. Trump's growing trade war with China threatened to cover some of these critical minerals, which includes rare land elements in the seabed bottom nodules.
US Geological Survey estimated Nodul in a single betrayal of the Eastern Pacific, known as the Clarion-Clipperton zone, contains more nicel, cobalt and manganese than all surface stocks. In the open ocean between the region, Mexico and Hawaii, the continent is half a half of the United States.
Metals are the company's contract sites, the clarion-clipperton zone in the average of 2.5 miles of the ocean. The company will be legally applied to the 1980s for the permission of operation.
Mr. Barron accused the “environmental activist seizure” in the establishment of a book that the company can play in a rule, instead of the US government.
Last month in a statement to the New York Times, the NOAA spokesman, Maureen O'lean, under the US law, is designed for “environmental influence and interpretation and interpretation of the public.”
1994 According to the United Nations Convention on the National National Security Council, there are exclusive economic rights in the coast of the nations, but international waters are under the JERSA jurisdiction. Due to the enterprise of the Sea law, the State Department sent representatives of the State Department, despite the official approval of the Senate, in Kingston in Kingston, Jamaica's headquarters in Kingston.
More than 30 countries called a Delay or moratorium at the beginning of the seabed stomach. A number of cars and technological companies including BMW, Volkswagen, Volvo, Apple, Google and Samsung promised not to use Minerals of the sea. Hawaii representative Ed Case presented in January American Seabed Protection LawWho prohibits the issuance of permits for the mining activities of NOAA licenses or seafood.
The ISA negotiators spent more than ten years design A mining order book covering everything from environmental rules to fees payments. Although it was a collateral to conclude it this year, the talks were not possible to respond to this deadline.
Nevertheless, such as China, Russia, India and several European countries, other major countries, generally in international waters, protested against the intention of a few European countries – Metals to get permission from the US government.
Most of the seabed hesitant for me, it comes because of how little it is studied by scientists. Polymetalic nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton zone, for example, in the cold, a cold in a cold in which the organisms experienced by the organisms in just rare missions.
“We think that half of the species living in this area depend on nodules for part of their development,” he said.
The roads offered by companies to me, they destroy these ecosystems, Mr. Gianni said, and the sediments caused by mining can then spread to the wider territories.
Metal company, which took its environmental research over a decade, said these concerns were violated. “We believe that we have enough information to start work and we can prove we can manage environmental risks,” he said.
It is expensive and technologically complicated, unlike the journey to another planet to reach the deep ocean. “Mankind scratched the surface,” said Beth Orcutt said the microbiologist in the Ocean Scientific Laboratory in Bigelow Laboratory. The deep sea covers about 70 percent of the world.
Deep sea ecosystems can affect remotely, as it seems far away.
“Ecosystems themselves are really important in the main global periods that allow the ocean to be productive and fishing fish and shellfish,” he said. “And all of these ecosystems are connected to each other, so if you destroy one, it probably does not understand what happens in many ways.”
The biggest result may lose all ecosystems before scientists gain a chance to understand them. It would be a loss of science, such as new concepts, such as new drugs or a new concept, which can occur on earth or other planets.
“If we want to do the deep sea for me, we must be ready to give up the ecosystems,” Dr. said Levin.
Eric Lipton Contributing report.