Anna MacArthur
15:06 - 15:24
"seabed mining commercially in federal areas has never been done anywhere globally in the entire world. The methods are unproven, the technology is untested, the financing is unclear. For Alaska, it's a minimum— minimum 20-year lease."
“seabed mining commercially in federal areas has never been done anywhere globally in the entire world. The methods are unproven, the technology is untested, the financing is unclear. For Alaska, it's a minimum— minimum 20-year lease.”
- Speaker
- Anna MacArthur
- Timestamp
- 15:06 – 15:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
But we still know that mining can occur without it being economical and that destruction can accompany it. Next slide. So our concerns, some of them I've listed before, is that seabed mining commercially in federal areas has never been done anywhere globally in the entire world. The methods are unproven, the technology is untested, the financing is unclear. For Alaska, it's a minimum— minimum 20-year lease.
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