NMP Sandpiper Marine Phosphate Mining Issues and Commenting Periods
As many of you know marine phosphate mining is not allowed anywhere in
the world and this would be the first in the whole world. Throughout the
consultation process of the Sandpiper project, experts on the marine
and terrestrial ecosystems have stated that there is sufficient evidence
that there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the
environment if the Sandpiper Project were allowed to proceed.
From the
marine side, dredging of this nature will permanently destroy portions
of the ocean floor which maintain the building blocks of the entire
marine ecosystem. Small wildlife live there called meio and micro fauna,
but studies on these species have not been conducted. In other words,
species which have not even been
identified yet will be killed off before we know them. There will be
serious habitat destruction and sediment plumes which will threaten all
life in the marine environment, including commercial fish stocks and the
people that rely on these stocks being sustainable for their
livelihood. Our Benguela Current ecosystem is well known as one of the
richest marine ecosystems in the entire world due to the diversity of
marine life that call it home. This ecosystem is a gift that has proven
to support sustainable industry and jobs over the long term. Are we
really prepared to destroy this for the short term gain of just an elite
few?
On the land, the NMP project is looking to operate in two
National Parks as well as inside of a municipal area to store and
transport their heavy industrial waste full of radioactive and poisonous
materials. This waste will remain on land, as dust in our air and in
our underground water and marine environment long after the NMP closes
it's doors. How will we handle this waste? How will the children and the
environment suffer now and in the long term? Is it really our right to
make a decision that will affect many generations negatively long into
the future?
This project will certainly be at the detriment to
the people and environment now and in the future. We should not be
prepared to destroy it for a short lived unsustainable mining industry
that will make a foreign company and a select few rich while destroying
the natural riches of our country.
Please make it known that
this project will be at a cost to the environment and society which you
are not prepared to pay. Please go to http://www.envirod.com/ to view the two reports and PLEASE make comments on the two separate components as follows:
1. NMP Sandpiper project Final EIA Report for the Marine Component (17
April 2012). Comments due directly to the Environmental Commissioner,
Mr. Teofilus Nghitila by email to tnghitila@yahoo.com or by fax to +264 61 240 339 by the end of Tuesday 24
April 2012. For further information please contact the Environmental Commissioner's office by phone at +264 61 284 2751.
2. Draft Scoping Report NMP Terrestrial Component
(10 April 2012). Comments due to the consultants for the proponent,
Enviro Dynamics Carla Saayman via fax: (061) 307-437 or e-mail:
carla@envirod.com by the end of Wednesday 25 April 2012.
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