Namibian Marine Phosphate

NMP hits back at the fishing industry and the fisheries minister over the October 2016 clearance for ML 170.

NMP accuses the Swakopmund Matters lobby group of misinformation and of impugning its independent consultants.

NMP argues phosphate dredging and fishing can co-exist, and that both industries share responsibility for the sea.

NMP sets out the Sandpiper project and its environmental assessment, and the case for phosphate in food production.

NMP rejects claims in Swakopmund Matters' open letter to Australia's prime minister that it overrode Namibian law.

NMP says its commissioned EIA, a licence condition, finds Sandpiper dredging will not harm Namibia's hake fishery.

NMP frames Sandpiper as a food security project for Namibia, SADC and Africa, with fertiliser as the end product.

NMP argues its Namibian phosphate projects, then targeting 3 million tonnes a year of concentrate, are a food security asset.

NMP's project GM defends the Sandpiper EIA submission as following due process and addresses the fishing industry's concerns.

NMP commits Sandpiper to a monitoring programme set by independent specialists and built into its Environmental Management Plan.