[Opinion] Allseas Ocean Bottom Mining Contract Violates UN Law, Greenpeace-Backed Prof Says
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A legal opinion commissioned by Greenpeace The Netherlands concludes that the contract signed in May 2026 between the Swiss-Dutch Allseas and The Metals Company (TMC) to extract polymetallic nodules from the seabed directly violates the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The legal opinion, drawn up by Professor André Nollkaemper of the University of Amsterdam, states that the Dutch Government is legally obliged to interven…
Allseas ocean bottom mining contract violates UN law, Greenpeace-backed prof says
Plans by Swiss-Dutch offshore energy giant Allseas to operate deep-sea mining machinery for The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) have “directly violated” the UN’s Law of the Sea, a legal analysis... The post Allseas ocean bottom mining contract violates UN law, Greenpeace-backed prof says appeared first on The Northern Miner.
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