Sentences with phrase «by mining activities»

This is a white man's attitude and completely ignores the impact on Martu culture by the mining activities, particularly as this will happen without our approval.
The Justice in Mining Network will support and advocate on behalf of local communities affected by mining activities, and will lobby on human rights issues where appropriate.
The report then traces the transaction history between these entities over time, finding that the first two phases of the network were dominated by mining activities and «sin enterprises» respectively.
Considering environmental impacts of [mountain top mining / valley filling], in combination with evidence that the health of people living in surface - mining regions of the central Appalachians may be compromised by mining activities, we conclude that [mountain top mining / valley filling] permits should not be granted unless new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer - review and shown to remedy these problems.»
Considering environmental impacts of MTM / VF, in combination with evidence that the health of people living in surface - mining regions of the central Appalachians is compromised by mining activities, we conclude that MTM / VF permits should not be granted unless new methods can be subjected to rigorous peer review and shown to remedy these problems.
The Justice in Mining Network will support and advocate on behalf of local communities affected by mining activities, and will lobby on human rights issues where appropriate.
Dr. Duah highlighted that, generally, destruction of the environment caused by mining activities had reached alarming proportions, and needed to be controlled to avoid the negative impact of inadequate water supply, poor water quality, loss of aquatic life and loss of recreation.

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Ekati, the area's first significant mine, began production in 1998, spurring an influx of activity that would see diamonds go from a zero - dollar industry to one that represented 20 % of the territorial economy by 2002.
Rio Tinto is reportedly reassessing its mining activities (in addition to its Diavik stake, its diamond assets include Australia's Argyle mine, the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe, and Bunder, an advanced project in India) and is expected to make a decision on them by the end of the year.
«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.
While two of its competitors are looking to sell their business, privately owned mining contractor Byrnecut Mining is diversifying its activities by establishing a new engineering and repair business in Pinmining contractor Byrnecut Mining is diversifying its activities by establishing a new engineering and repair business in PinMining is diversifying its activities by establishing a new engineering and repair business in Pinjarra.
«Bitcoin [«mining»] in itself is not criminal by any means; it's not a suspect activity.
On the orders of a multi-agency task force, regional authorities have been instructed to «actively guide» firms currently mining bitcoin in their region away from the activity, according to documents reviewed by The Financial Times.
By: Sascha Solomons 4th November 2016 Africa's mining and quarrying activities continue to be characterised by export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieBy: Sascha Solomons 4th November 2016 Africa's mining and quarrying activities continue to be characterised by export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieby export - oriented activities and, as a result, the mining sector of this mineral - rich continent is driven primarily by the commodities appetite of the world's largest economieby the commodities appetite of the world's largest economies.
The rise was led by growth in manufacturing and utilities, while mining activities temporarily came to a standstill due to the onset of hurricanes.
21st October 2016 Activity Dispatch, the latest advancement in dispatching technology from mining systems manufacturer Wenco Mining Systems can help mines reduce wasted time by eliminating the unnecessary time spent on shift change, meal breaks and other short pauses in produmining systems manufacturer Wenco Mining Systems can help mines reduce wasted time by eliminating the unnecessary time spent on shift change, meal breaks and other short pauses in produMining Systems can help mines reduce wasted time by eliminating the unnecessary time spent on shift change, meal breaks and other short pauses in production.
A group of MIT students is fighting back against a subpoena issued by the state of New Jersey related to their Bitcoin mining activities.
Win - win for the blockchain: We provide stability by decentralizing mining activities again, letting the community fully participate in mining and making mining - operations immune to local regulations, governmental restrictions, energy price spikes and bringing peace of mind to the global blockchain infrastructure.
Mobile - based democratization of mining activity would simultaneously drive down mining costs dramatically by distributing mining activities across a widening array of mobile phones globally, and increase cryptocurrency legitimization given the huge swaths of people previously disengaged from mining whose activity would produce entirely new value for more cryptocurrencies, increasing investment into cryptocurrency as a whole.
Russia and the United States do not have significant hashing power yet, but there is evidence their mining activity is growing.The world's first full - service mining solution providerNestled in Wenatchee, Washington, located close to a number of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, the Giga Watt Project is becoming a significant player in North American crypto mining.Giga Watt is fueled by five megawatts of power dedicated to mining resources, with an additional 50 in development.
By 1975, his activities as an organizer of the mines were sufficiently irksome to the establishment which led to his arrest during the emergency.
«Aggregate EPS revisions have been edging lower at a relatively benign pace, helped by the lower Australian dollar, despite a recent spike in downgrades relating to mining capex and construction activity
So Sea Turtle Conservation is a passion of mine and it gives me great joy to join in with Storybook Science by Trisha over at Inspiration Laboratories this year with suggestions of activities, crafts, and -LSB-...]
In an area which was dominated by coal mining and which fell into economic decline following the closure of the mines, investment in infrastructure was a necessity to bring a new age of economic activity such as the regeneration of Seaham Town Centre and the new East - West A19 link road.
The four were picked up in one of the mines in Obuasi busy engaging in galamsey, an act that was in violation of Ghana's mining laws and in apparent disobedience of an ultimatum given by the Lands Minister for all illegal mining activities to cease.
Government has come under attack by thousands of Ghanaians engaging in illegal mining threatening to vote against the ruling party in the next elections despite their (illegal miners) hazardous activities on the environment.
Major Mahama, who was promoted posthumously by President Akufo - Addo from Captain to Major, was the commander of a military detachment checking galamsey (illegal mining) activities at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region.
In response to a question by one of the workers, Dr Fayemi said the ministry would adopt its own whistle blowing arrangement in order to encourage more information on illegal mining activities in the sector.
The Management of BUA Group has reacted to allegations by Dangote Group that it was engaging in illegal mining activities in Okene, Kogi State.
Edwin said: «It is therefore appalling that BUA Group in the midst of these overwhelming facts will still want the public to believe that Dangote Group is after its business when in actual fact BUA has been the one mining illegally in Dangote Mining Lease and attacking its officials without any justification... The crocodile tears being shed by BUA in its cry for help and open letter to the President is most laughable and a total distraction from BUA's continuous illegal activities within Dangote's ML 2541 aimed at depleting and exhausting the limestone reserves in order to sabotage Dangote Group's legitimate investment.&mining illegally in Dangote Mining Lease and attacking its officials without any justification... The crocodile tears being shed by BUA in its cry for help and open letter to the President is most laughable and a total distraction from BUA's continuous illegal activities within Dangote's ML 2541 aimed at depleting and exhausting the limestone reserves in order to sabotage Dangote Group's legitimate investment.&Mining Lease and attacking its officials without any justification... The crocodile tears being shed by BUA in its cry for help and open letter to the President is most laughable and a total distraction from BUA's continuous illegal activities within Dangote's ML 2541 aimed at depleting and exhausting the limestone reserves in order to sabotage Dangote Group's legitimate investment.»
Any natural resources like oil, gas, metals, salt, even geothermal activity etc. (with the exception of sand, gravel, clay) do not belong the owner, but are considered ownerless until mined which needs a separate admission from the government (Some specific natural resources can even be only mined by the goverment which conveniently can transfer the rights).
We, as well, seek to know how a mining lease and mining right can be granted when no Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Environmental Management Plan has been made publicly available for comments, and more so, when the communities likely to be affected by the activities had not been engaged.»
Teachers in the East Akyem Municipality in the Eastern Region, an area ravaged by the activities of illegal miners, have pledged to join Citi FM's efforts in ending illegal mining also known as galamsey.
The government has since taken a number of actions including suspending the issuance of new licences for the small - scale mining in the country, and it has announced the retrieval of some illegal mining equipment, surrendered by the operators following the massive drive to clamp down on their activities.
Many Ghanaians survive on illegal mining activities, which is also backed by some traditional authorities, politicians and other influential persons in society.
We must, thus, be determined to protect our environment and water bodies by joining hands in the fight against illegal mining, also known as galamsey, in order to bring an end to the devastation of some of our landscape, and the pollution of our water bodies, occasioned by the activities of illegal miners.
But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.
In the samples studied by the scientists, there are also high levels of atmospheric contamination from lead during the Roman Empire, when large quantities of this metal were extracted in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern Spain.
The Human - Induced Earthquake Database (HiQuake), the world's most complete database of earthquake sequences proposed to have been triggered by human activity, now includes approximately 730 entries, according to a report published October 4 in the «Data Mine» column of the journal Seismological Research Letters.
These revelations, made public only late last month, have rekindled a broader debate about how to manage contact as isolated indigenous peoples increasingly emerge from the forest, displaced by mining, logging, and illegal activities (Science, 5 June, pp. 1061, 1072, 1080).
GPS signals don't penetrate very deeply or at all in water, soil or building walls, and therefore, can't be used by submarines or in underground activities such as surveying mines.
Last fall, Bush's Secretary of the Interior, Dirk Kempthorne, circumvented a prohibition on mining activities by authorizing uranium exploration within a million acre buffer zone around Grand Canyon National Park.
Put together, arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury and pesticides are the leading causes of such toxic hot spots largely created by mining, metal smelting, chemical manufacture, agriculture, heavy industry, tanneries and waste disposal, among other activities.
Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.
In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.
The Impact of Uranium Mining and Cleanup Activities in the Grants Mineral Belt: Seven Key Points A Presentation to the New Mexico Legislature Indian Affairs Committee Meeting, Red Valley Chapter House, Navajo Nation by Paul Robinson, SRIC (10/1/2015)
Retaliatory persecution by pastoralists, depletion of wild prey, habitat degradation, poorly planned developmental activities, extractive industries such as mining, and poaching pose the main threats to the species» survival.
With the help of the activities director, we assisted all 10 of the residents to the meditation garden that was created by a dear friend of mine.
A-9: If a taxpayer's «mining» of virtual currency constitutes a trade or business, and the «mining» activity is not undertaken by the taxpayer as an employee, the net earnings from self - employment (generally, gross income derived from carrying on a trade or business less allowable deductions) resulting from those activities constitute selfemployment income and are subject to the self - employment tax.
But by 1972 gold fever loosened its hold as mining activities ceased and attention turned to discoveries of gold reserves elsewhere.
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