seabed mining

"What sort of ignorant and arrogant claim is it that no Traditional Owner knows where the song lines run? What do you know about songlines? What do you know about the TO's?" and this is not a killer blow to mining in the NT. Responsible mining will always be welcome here. It's just a wake up call to radical speculative exploration companies and investors who think they've found the next big thing and who are prepared to make a buck by thinking they can destroy the environment and a culture and somehow believe they have the god given right to get away with it".
The local Anindilyakwan people have been looking after their land and water for thousands of years- what right do you have... AND I think the NT Government made themselves quite clear in their article this morning in the paper about seabed mining in the NT.