The social and environmental complexities of extracting energy
The mining industry is an intensive energy user and greenhouse gas emitter 24 and is perceived as a dirty activity that has caused adverse social and environmental impacts. The synergies and trade ...
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Environmental impacts of road pavement rehabilitation
Pavement has a raft of environmental impact categories, including two global contemporary issues: climate change, which is affected by, for example, transportation of heavy materials to the construction site; and water systems due to the use and depletion of water in the extraction and manufacturing stages (Anastasiou et al., 2015, Rosado et al ...
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Environmental Aspects and Impacts its Mitigation Measures of Corporate
Even though it's highly destructive, industry often prefers strip mining as it requires less labour and yields more coal than underground mining. 1.2. Environment impacts & aspects of strip mining x Strip mining destroys landscapes, forests and wildlife habitats at the site of the mine when trees, plants, and topsoil are cleared from the mining ...
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Harmful Effects Of Mining On The Environment
Soil erosion and contamination are two significant environmental impacts of mining. When mining operations remove vegetation and topsoil, the stability of the ground is compromised. This disruption increases soil erosion …
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The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
The impact of mining operations on the surrounding land is also closely linked to the ecological setting of the mining sites. For example, the deforestation of primary forests caused by mining for iron ore in the tropical …
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(PDF) Environmental Impact Assessment Of Mining Activities…
Environmental Impact Assessment is the process of evaluating the effects caused by a project on the environment. The outcomes generated by this assessment can lead to a reduction of the negative ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Dam: Durgawati Reservoir Project
Today Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is known as one of the most important tools for decision makers in the construction of civil and industrial projects towards sustainable development.
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(PDF) Impact of mining on environment: A case study of …
Impact of mining on environment: A case study of Taita Taveta County, Kenya. May 2021; African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 15(5):202-213 ... in the mining areas (Bell et al ...
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[PDF] The socio-economic impacts of mining on local communities: The
DOI: 10.1016/J.EXIS.2016.02.001 Corpus ID: 167608619; The socio-economic impacts of mining on local communities: The case of Jordan @article{Rawashdeh2016TheSI, title={The socio-economic impacts of mining on local communities: The case of Jordan}, author={Rami al Rawashdeh and Gary A. Campbell and Awwad Titi}, journal={The Extractive Industries and …
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Economic Impact Page – Alabama Mining Association
The economic impact of Alabama's met coal industry extends far beyond the mine. The export of met coal drives economic development at the Port of Mobile. In 2018, Mobile ranked fourth in the nation for shipping U.S. coal exports and first in handling coal imports. ... According to our survey, a total of 883 individuals are employed by direct ...
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Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems
Backed by the rich empirical evidence that mining activities induce hazardous changes to the environment, we considered areas around mining sites to be more strongly at …
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Frontiers | Environmental Impacts of the Deep-Water Oil …
The elimination of these discharges has led to demonstrably reduced extents of drilling impacts (Figure 4), from thousands of meters around wells drilled using oil-based muds (Davies et al., 1984; Mair et al., 1987; Gray et al., 1990; Kröncke et al., 1992) to hundreds of meters for wells drilled using water-based muds (Jones et al., 2006 ...
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Global impacts of extractive and industrial …
In environmental conflicts, Indigenous Peoples face severe impacts, such as livelihood loss and land dispossession (), environmental pollution (17, 18), threats to their knowledge systems (), racial- and gender-based violence …
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Evaluating the environmental and economic impact of mining …
Several studies (Sheoran et al., 2010; Mensah et al., 2015; Sonja et al., 2018) conducted on the impact of mining have pointed out that both surface mining and underground mining have caused substantial adverse impact on the environment as well as land. Stockpiles, sludges, gullies, and tailings dams are some of the most common mining effects ...
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Environmental and Health Impact of Industrial …
the system (Abraham et al., 1997). In many developed countries, toxicity tests on industrial effluents are required to ensure that such discharges will not have adverse effects on the environment (W hitehouse and Dijk, 1996). In Nigeria, environmental regulations on …
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Environmental protection in Madagascar: Biodiversity …
To explore these issues, this contribution takes Madagascar as a case study and examines the experience of two major mining sites. Madagascar possesses enormous biological diversity 1 that occupies a critically important place traditionally (culturally, spiritually), socially, and economically, and the country's population depends on it for survival (MEEF Ministry of …
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Environmental impact
The assembly and analysis of a 37-year satellite database covering almost 400 mining districts in 49 countries shows that a rise in river mineral mining has substantially increased riverine ...
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Environmental issues from coal mining and their solutions
Therefore, the impact of mining on the environment today is significantly different from that in the 1980’s. ... Fig. 5 shows the concept of TPD and illustrates the concept of mining waste recycling. BIAN Zhengfu et al Environmental issues from coal mining and their solutions 221 Fig. 5 Chart illustrating TPD 3.5 Reclamation of mined ...
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Environmental Impact Of Mining
In this article, we'll explore the environmental impact of mining-related activities and dissect the effects of mining operations on ecological systems and natural conditions. It also delves into its impact on the world in …
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Harmful Impacts of Mining
Minerals and metals play a central role in the global economy and mining is an important source of economic development in many countries. However, the harmful effects of mining remain a …
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Impact of coal mining on stream biodiversity in the US …
Lindberg, T. T. et al. Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 108, 20929–20934 (2011). Article CAS Google Scholar ...
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Prepared for
Coal is the largest and most widespread fossil fuel resource. It accounts for 23 percent of the world's known energy sources.6 Based on the "Demonstrated Reserve Base" data, Alabama holds about 4 billion tons of economically recoverable coal reserves.
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Evidence of the impacts of metal mining and the effectiveness of mining
Background: Mining can directly and indirectly affect social and environmental systems in a range of positive and negative ways, and may result in societal benefits, but may also cause conflicts, not least in relation to land use. Mining always affects the environment, whilst remediation and mitigation efforts may effectively ameliorate some negative environmental impacts.
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A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal
Hauton, C. et al. Identifying toxic impact of metals potentially released during deep-sea mining—a synthesis of the challenges to quantifying risk. Front. Mar.
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Impact of industrial effluents on the environment and …
In particular, the released industrial effluents are contributing majorly to water pollution (Roy et al., 2015; Ilyas et al., 2019; Rajak et al., 2021). Moreover, the release of inefficiently treated effluents into the rivers and the degraded quality and quantity of the available groundwater are majorly depleting the consumable drinking and ...
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The waste ban in China: what happened next? Assessing the impact …
The 2017 ban on the waste import and new policies for the waste management sector in mainland China had wide-spread impact. After decades of poor environmental and public health impacts from the sector, a study is needed which focuses on policies updates and waste management. This provides a direction for the survival of local waste management industries …
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The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
There have been many documented instances of environmental pollution caused by mining operations, which are often caused by leakages of mining tailings. Mining tailings are the materials left behind after the …
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Assessing the impacts of river bed mining on aquatic …
Mining activities alter the size or depth of a river; the water flow is impacted due to dredging, scalping, and cutting into the riverbed (Koehnken et al., 2020) Numerous effects include erosion of the channel bed and banks, a rise in the channel slope, a change in the channel morphology as a result of the significant removal of streambed ...
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Estimating the environmental impacts of global lithium-ion …
For instance, Kim et al. focused on South Korea and found an emission intensity of 141-kgCO 2 eq/kWh battery. Sun et al. studied China and reported an emission intensity of 124.5 kgCO 2 eq/kWh, while Dai et al. examined the United States and found an emission intensity of 72.9-kgCO 2 eq/kWh battery . Therefore, while their findings are ...
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Environmental Impacts of Aluminium & Bauxite Mining
Explore the damaging impact the extraction of bauxite mining for aluminium for construction has on our natural environment globally.
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