VANCOUVER – Greenpeace Canada, native Indigenous artists, volunteers and supporters gathered right now exterior the Vancouver headquarters of The Metals Firm (TMC) to color a collective avenue mural and expose the harmful deep sea mining firm. The protest, happening on July 4th, the US Independence Day, bears significance as TMC is working with the Donald Trump Administration to fast-track deep-sea mining, exploiting the ocean ground for revenue. Following the April 2025 govt order from Trump, TMC rushed to use for the first-ever U.S. deep-sea mining allow, bypassing international regulatory processes, threatening the delicate Pacific seabed in the hunt for polymetallic nodules crammed with important minerals in 25,200 sq. kilometers of the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Many scientists and critics are warning that deep sea mining causes irreparable harm to ocean life and harms susceptible whale species. At present’s Coast Salish-led mural in downtown Vancouver sends a robust message: the ocean shouldn’t be on the market. Daily folks, from households, employees and college students alike, got here collectively to take brave motion to guard their households, houses and future.
Salomé Sané, Nature & Biodiversity Campaigner with Greenpeace Canada, mentioned:
“Artwork has all the time been political. This collective mural is a Coast Salish-led initiative and we’re honored right now to be sharing these areas to name out the politics of The Metals Firm at their doorstep: palms off the deep sea. They’re racing to plunder the Pacific seabed, jeopardizing the worldwide course of in place, and cozying as much as Trump to take action. The Trump-TMC alliance to fast-track deep-sea mining indicators a reckless disregard for worldwide regulation, ignores the voices of Pacific communities and rolls the cube on one of many planet’s final untouched ecosystems.
Salomé Sané continued:
“The worldwide ocean shouldn’t be a prize for grasping bullies, it’s the frequent heritage of humankind. The Canadian authorities should select integrity over complicity and maintain the seabed off-limits to extraction. This implies reinforcing its assist for a world moratorium on deep-sea mining, and opposing the adoption of the Mining Code, which might solely open the floodgates to an business that ought to by no means see the sunshine of day.”
The protest comes forward of a pivotal United Nations worldwide summit the place international locations will determine whether or not to finalize the Mining Code, the rulebook that might unleash industrial deep-sea mining. As the house nation of The Metals Firm, Greenpeace Canada is urging International Minister Anita Anand and Prime Minister Carney to reaffirm Canada’s assist for a world moratorium and oppose any adoption of the Mining Code.
The mural was painted utilizing non-toxic, water-soluble paint and spanned a diameter of over 15 toes lengthy and vast. The mural was co-designed and led by Indigenous visible artists Kwiis Hamilton and artist Glad, each Coast Salish artists whose roots of their work are based in cultural resistance, ecological safety and collective resilience. Road artwork is a type of civil non-violent disobedience that helps ship a big message to politicians who nonetheless haven’t totally grasped the gravity of the local weather disaster and the duty to guard the oceans.
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