Keep Our Sea Chem­i­cal Free Documentary

Keep Our Sea Chem­i­cal Free

In 2022, St Ives Bay became the site for the world’s first open sea ocean alka­lin­i­ty enhance­ment (OAE) tri­al, an untest­ed form of marine geo­engi­neer­ing with poten­tial risks for local ecosys­tems, fish­eries and com­mu­ni­ties. Thanks to coor­di­nat­ed com­mu­ni­ty action, Plan­e­tary Tech­nolo­gies ulti­mate­ly with­drew its plans but the pres­sures and gov­er­nance gaps around OAE remain.

The Keep Our Sea Chem­i­cal Free (KOSCF) project will build on this suc­cess by main­tain­ing and strength­en­ing the local net­work that mobilised against the tri­al. The project will release the KOSCF doc­u­men­tary to a wider pub­lic audi­ence, engage in pan­els and media out­reach and con­tin­ue mon­i­tor­ing emerg­ing geo­engi­neer­ing pro­pos­als. Through blogs, com­mu­ni­ty meet­ings and col­lab­o­ra­tion with oth­er local marine groups, KOSCF will keep res­i­dents informed, ampli­fy com­mu­ni­ty voic­es and pro­mote pre­cau­tion­ary, com­mu­ni­ty-led approach­es to pro­tect­ing St Ives Bay and UK waters from future geo­engi­neer­ing risks.

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