By Helen Reid and Jeff Lewis
(Reuters) – The government of Nauru plans to ask the International Seabed Authority (ISA) next week to fast-track the adoption of seabed mining regulations, a source with direct knowledge told Reuters on Friday, in a sign of growing pressure to launch the controversial new industry.
Any member state of the Jamaica-headquartered United Nations body can trigger the so-called “two-year rule” which would compel the ISA to allow seabed mining to go ahead within two years under whatever rules have been put in place by that time.
(Reporting by Helen Reid and Jeff Lewis; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
