BLUE PERIL CAMPAIGN TOOLKIT
Blue Peril is a world-first visual investigation of the impacts of deep sea mining conducted independently of the industry or the International Seabed Authority that actively promotes it. It presents independent, scientifically valid predictions of how far-reaching the impacts of deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean are likely to be.
The Blue Peril Campaign Toolkit provides a social media toolkit, technical paper & reports, media advisory, access to download Blue Peril video, Blue Peril in different languages, how to take action, the project team
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- Use the hashtags #BluePeril #NoDeepSeaMining
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#BluePeril predicts it would take 3 months for the pollution discharged by @themetalsco in its #DeepSeaMining Tonga License area to reach Hawaiian waters and the Northern Line Islands of Kiribati and the United States #NoDeepSeaMining https://blueperil.org
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With recent allegations of collusion and corruption at@ISBA_HQ to fast track #DeepSeaMining and its relationship with @themetalsco, #BluePeril highlights @themetalsco operations will open access to huge swathes of the #PacificOcean to #Ecocide
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The liabilities for the Tongan Government and the @themetalsco could be crippling – not to mention the possible consequences for the health and livelihood of the peoples of Hawaii and Kiribati
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‘As oceanic people, we have a responsibility to our children and our children’s children to preserve our kinship with the living ocean … If we protect our ocean we protect our home, our way of life our identity, and our future’ @PadreJB @lotupasifika www.blueperil.org
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#BluePeril uses a photographic survey of 88,000 images of seafloor habitat to explore the rich biodiversity of the #DeepSea that provides a habitat for millions of living organisms and is at risk of being destroyed by #DeepSeaMining https://blueperil.org
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Deep seabed nodules of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the #PacificOcean are breeding and feeding grounds, and provide the only hard surfaces animals can attach to.
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The nodules are central to many deep sea ecosystems and science suggests these ecosystems play important roles in wider ocean and planetary health via carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling and balancing ocean chemistry.
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#BluePeril exposes that #DeepSeaMining will destroy the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action. It is a form of #Ecocide – wanton, severe, irreversible and widespread harm to the natural environment. #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
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#BluePeril predicts that it would take only 3 months for the pollution discharged by @The Metals Company in its Tonga #DeepSeaMining License area to reach Hawaiian waters and the Northern Line Islands of Kiribati and the United States. Using OpenDrift, a wide search of scientific literature, and tracking virtual sediment particles using ocean currents derived from a global ocean model, the 16-minute #BluePeril video provides a well-grounded visual demonstration of the spread of plumes posing a very real threat to marine ecosystems, human health and livelihoods in the Pacific. #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
#BluePeril uses a photographic survey of 88,000 images of seafloor habitat to explore the rich biodiversity deep seabed nodules of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the #PacificOcean. Nodules are breeding and feeding grounds with most species living on and around nodules found nowhere else on earth. These ecosystems play important roles for planetary health via carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling and balancing ocean chemistry. If #DeepSeaMining is to go ahead, it will be #Ecocide – wanton, severe, irreversible and widespread harm to the natural environment. #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
Watch #BluePeril to understand how #DeepSeaMining could cause wanton, severe, irreversible and widespread harm to the natural environment, marine ecosystems and human health. “Our oceans are already under so much stress, from climate change to overfishing to pollution, at this point, we really cannot consider any new activity that would add further stress to our ocean. Science is only now catching up with what Oceanic Peoples have always known, that our ocean is fluid with no boundaries, everything is interconnected …” – Alannah Smith @Te Ipukarea Society #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
Watch #BluePeril to understand how #DeepSeaMining, if it goes ahead, will create severe, irreversible and widespread harm to the natural environment and coastal communities. “As oceanic people, we have a responsibility to our children and our children’s children to preserve our kinship with the living ocean which is so much a part of who we are. If we protect our ocean we protect our home, our way of life our identity, and our future. Civil society in the Pacific and around the world is working to stop deep sea mining. We encourage you to find out more.” -Rev. James Bhagwan @Pacific Conference of Churches #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
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#Blue Peril predicts that 1 year of mining could destroy up to 600km2 of seabed and that it would take only 3 months for the pollution discharged by @metalsco in its Tonga License area to reach Hawaiian waters and the Northern Line Islands of Kiribati and the United States. Serious questions have been raised about collusion and corruption at @isba_hq in fast tracking #DeepSeaMining in particular its relationship with @metalsco. The 15-min video highlights the operations of @metalsco and how a single mining operation over a 30 year license period could destroy an area of seabed similar to the land area of the whole of Hawaii. Imagine if @metalsco mines all of its license areas!? #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
#BluePeril exposes #DeepSeaMining will destroy the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action. It will be nothing less than #Ecocide with wanton, severe, irreversible and widespread harm to the ocean. Predicting that it would take only 3 months for the pollution discharged by @metalsco in its Tonga License area to reach Hawaiian waters and the Northern Line Islands of Kiribati and the United States #DeepSeaMining poses a very real threat to marine ecosystems, human health and livelihoods. ‘As oceanic people, we have a responsibility to our children and our children’s children to preserve our kinship with the living ocean which is so much a part of who we are. If we protect our ocean we protect our home, our way of life our identity and our future’ stated Rev. James Bagawhan, Gen Sec., Pacific Conference of Churches. #NoDeepSeaMining www.blueperil.org
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You can download Blue Peril here.
To get a copy of Blue Peril to screen publicly please contact communications[at]dsm-campaign.org
The video above is from Blue Peril showing how pollution discharged by The Metals Company in its deep sea mining Tonga License area would take 3 months to reach Hawaiian waters and the Northern Line Islands of Kiribati and the United States if operations are allowed to go ahead.
TECHNICAL PAPER & REPORTS
BLUE PERIL: A VISUAL INVESTIGATION OF DEEP SEA MINING IN THE PACIFIC builds on the Deep Sea Mining Campaign reports Predicting the impacts of mining deep sea polymetallic nodules in the Pacific Ocean (2020) and Why the Rush: seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean (2019), using architectural and spatial analysis to present a ground-breaking simulation of the potentially irreversible impacts of deep sea mining in the Pacific Ocean. A Technical Note is also provided for Blue Peril Video
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Special thanks Dr. John Luick from Austides Australia Consulting for his oceanographic modelling and analysis.
Also thanks to the many scientists who gave of their time in discussions and assisted with providing data and photographic surveys
Blue Peril has also been supported by MiningWatch Canada
You can watch the soft launch of Blue Peril streamed live on Facebook as an official side event of the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022. The launch included a 30 min Q&A with Pelenatita Kara, Civil Society Forum Tonga, Dr. Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada, Filip Wesołowski, INTERPRT, and Jan Pingel, Ozeanien-Dialog.
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