Zitat:"Unknown consequences
Rick Steiner, a retired professor of marine conservation at the University of Alaska, said:
“You know, what I find sort of a dangerous combination is the increased industrial interest, the poor scientific understanding of the systems, a very rudimentary management regime often co-opted by or corrupted by industrial interests, and very few protected areas.
“If the riser and lift system fails, with the ore slurry coming up or even the dewatering plume going back down, you will have a release of this relatively toxic ore and sediment in the upper water column which is extremely productive in that area with a lot of tuna swimming through the area, a lot of sea turtles, pelagic birds, whales, dolphins, a lot of other fish species.
“The [Solwara 1] EIS [Environmental Impact Statement] itself actually admitted that there would be severe site specific impact from the mining operation, there would likely be species lost due to the project, some rare and endemic species at the site. They had not done toxicity tests of the dewatered plume on actual vent species, they used surrogate species.
“They had not done a complete characterisation of the genetic diversity on site … They had looked at the benthic, the seabed system on the sites, but nothing in the water column.
“I noticed in the EIS that Nautilus said we will consider the site recolonised when the dominant species ― Alviniconcha, and Bathymodiolus and Ifremeria, some of the snails and mussels ― are present again. That’s about like saying that a redwood forest that is clear-cut has re-established a functional ecosystem when a few redwoods are growing there again.” " "ENDE Zitat
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