Guam Governor would support ban on deep-sea mining in Guam waters, headed to DC to lobby issue

Excerpt from guampdn.com

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero on Thursday said she would support a ban on deep-sea mining in Guam waters, as she plans a visit to Washington, D.C. to oppose the harvesting of minerals from the region’s seafloor.

“Of course I would support that,” Leon Guerrero said of a proposed mining ban in Guam waters. “I don’t know what weight that’s going to hold, because they can just come in and do it.”

Sen. Therese Terlaje and five other members of the Guam Legislature have introduced a bill to ban mining in Guam’s nearshore waters and restrict the use of island ports for mining activity.

The ban would only cover waters extending about 3 nautical miles out from Guam’s coast, but is meant to hamper the use of the island to support deep-sea mining in waters claimed by the federal government.