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Promise and Peril at the Bottom of the Sea

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Who Should Profit From the Seabed Metals?

Metals company now controls a huge proportion of the reserved sea bed that's been allicated so far. The company 's estimating that it now stands to make something like 30 billion dollars in profit over the next two decades if it can start this industrial scale mining well. It made me wonder, how did this happen? And what i found was that it's all thanks to this little known united nations affiliated agency that was tasked to regulate sea bed mining in the first place.

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