Companies wanting to take advantage of President Donald Trump’s deep-sea mining order will appear before the House Natural Resources Committee this week.
Gerard Barron, CEO of Canada-based The Metals Company, and Oliver Gunesakara CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, are slated to testify before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday.
Thomas Peacock, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, will also appear.
Discussions will zero in on the ripple effects of Trump’s newly inked executive order aimed at boosting exploration and production of mineral-rich nodules on the seabed floor — including materials like nickel, cobalt and manganese.
