Mining the depths: Norway’s deep-sea exploitation could put it in environmental and legal murky waters

Now it is leading into another area, leveraging its long legacy of offshore oil and gas production into developing deep-sea mining.

• Ashley Perl
• The Conversation

In January Norway became the first nation to open its continental shelf to commercial deep-sea mineral exploration.

The approved proposal opens the door for “sustainable and responsible” exploration within an area of 281,000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Italy.

But determining what constitutes sustainable and responsible deep-sea mining could put Norway in murky legal waters by pushing the…

• Mining the depths…