SEABED TALKS
August 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallTIME was that the dredging and marine mineral extraction industry was lightly regulated, even in oceans teeming with life companies could plunder the seabed for materials and aggregates without serious hindrance. But now regulators have their fingers on everything, they are even thinking about rules for grabbing manganese nodules from the beds of deep oceans, a job that no company is anywhere near being able to undertake. The United Nations' International Seabed Authority has refined specific international research projects on how mineral extraction ...
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