Deep-Sea Mining: »Other Countries Want to Start as Soon as Possible«

Belgium is always seductively surreal. Ambushed by Greenpeace with depressing info on deep sea mining while on holiday in land of milk and honey and culture

Belgium is always seductively surreal. Running into Greenpeace a mile from a Leopold II monument.A Belgian company, DEME, seeks to gazify the bottom of the ocean to extract nickel, manganese, cobalt.Walking through the Belgian dunes we were stopped by Greenpeace and invited into an installation recreating the bottom of the ocean (see video). They told […]