Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited GSR (part of DEME group) to respond to concerns raised in the Caritas Oceania Report 2017 about seabed mining.

The company responded:

...With regard to our activities in the Cook Islands, we are in a prospecting phase. Environmental data on biodiversity, spatial distribution and eco-system parameters for the development of a robust baseline, in addition to oceanographic, geological and mineral resource information will need to gathered before exploitation will take place.