The Vanuatu Council of Churches has joined the Vanuatu National Council of Women in expressing concerns over deep sea mining. The Council of Women told the minister of lands…and the prime minister…that women don’t want deep sea mining around Vanuatu as the country already faces environmental problems, natural disasters. An executive member of the Council of Churches, Pastor Alan Nafuki, who is participating…says they are also against it. He says he is surprised the government has granted licences to foreign companies without informing the local people…“…the sea is our livelihood. We need to know and we need to have a say in this before anything is done.”