Scott Vincent

On the 25th of November Greenpeace activists illegally boarded TMC’s research vessel, MV Coco, while scientists on board were busy at work, conducting research in the Pacific Ocean, and demanded a stop to that research. Link Greenpeace’s move to stop research is not surprising to anyone who pays attention to the tactics of the environmental … Read more

An article in the Washington Post highlighted the large role that China is playing in the International Seabed Authority to gain access to polymetallic nodules. The country has rights to five licenses and is very influential in moving policy at the ISA. China clearly has a leg up on the US and Europe when it … Read more