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Space mining. It sounds like the subject of an upcoming Hollywood action movie. But as we move towards a net-zero carbon economy, the notion of mining other planets or the moon for the battery metals badly needed here on Earth isn’t the stuff of some fanciful Tinseltown screenwriter. It’s real and it’s happening — and Canada, as a spacefaring nation, could play a significant part.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Elizabeth Steyn, a professor of Mining and Finance Law at Western University, writes about the high stakes and the legal implications of mining in outer space. She writes: “Legal issues about the ownership of space resources must urgently be addressed to avoid space wars over natural resources between superpowers like the U.S., Russia and China.”
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Cliffs in ancient ice on Mars.
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Elizabeth Steyn, Western University
Space mining might be closer than you think. But legal issues about the ownership of space resources must be urgently addressed to avoid space wars over natural resources.
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Max Stick, McMaster University
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François Jaquet, Université de Montréal; Martin Gibert, Université de Montréal; Valéry Giroux, Université de Montréal
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