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The Metals Company contracts CSIRO-led consortium to develop environmental monitoring and management plan for deep-sea nodule collection

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The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration and commercial rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga. Deep sea mining remains controversial.

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The Metals Company and Low Carbon Royalties form strategic partnership

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The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration and commercial rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga.

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Highest-ever volcanic plume captured by satellite imagery

Innovation News Network

The volcanic plume from the Tonga Volcano reached an altitude of 57km, smashing the previous record of 41km. The post Highest-ever volcanic plume captured by satellite imagery appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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The Metals Company completes latest deep-sea research campaign

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The Metals Company through its subsidiaries holds exploration rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga.

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We Are ALL Tongan

Creative Greenius

The idyllic island kingdom of Tonga. My friend Elizabeth is from the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga, an exotic locale long fixed in my memory with images of Polynesian paradise. Tonga has sadly been in the news lately after an inter-island ferry sank on August 5 drowning over 70 people. Mine too of course.

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Rejoice My Tongan Brothers and Sisters! You Will Soon Be Rid of Your Ridiculous Royal Family & You Can Now Save Yourselves

Creative Greenius

For months now I’ve tried to work with King George Topou V and the rest of the Royal Family of Tonga in an attempt to inform them about the risks their kingdom faces from climate change and to get them to act on behalf of their people. You needed a solar Tonga project like yesterday.

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DeepGreen lifecycle analysis argues for sourcing EV battery materials from deep-sea polymetallic nodules

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Through these relationships with the Republic of Nauru, the Republic of Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga, DeepGreen has exclusive rights under the International Seabed Authority to explore for polymetallic nodules in regions of the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean.

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Deep-sea battery metal developer DeepGreen going public with SPAC to become $2.9B (equity value) The Metals Company

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The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration and commercial rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga, which are regulated by the International Seabed Authority. Source: DeepGreen.

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SpaceX delivers truckload of Starlink dishes to Ukraine, as promised

Teslarati

Otherwise, the only explanation is that SpaceX is continuing a sort of unplanned field test that began with the island nation of Tonga and is attempting to connect Ukrainian Starlink users to distant ground stations using communications lasers installed on a new generation of satellites.

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Could Sucking Up the Seafloor Solve Battery Shortage?

Cars That Think

The Metals Company has teamed up with three of those, from the tiny Pacific island nations of Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga, to access 150,000 square kilometers that, Shesky says, "have sufficient copper, nickel and cobalt to electrify the world's vehicle fleet several times over."

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EV Radar: May 2022

Noodoe

South Korea. South Sudan. Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Switzerland. Tajikistan. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan. Turks and Caicos Islands. Virgin Islands. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States.

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EV Radar: June 2022

Noodoe

South Korea. South Sudan. Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Switzerland. Tajikistan. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan. Turks and Caicos Islands. Virgin Islands. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States.

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EV Radar: April 2022

Noodoe

South Korea. South Sudan. Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Switzerland. Tajikistan. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan. Turks and Caicos Islands. Virgin Islands. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Military personnel from Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate. Units from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore, and the United States will participate.

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