Sentences with phrase «controversial mining project»
Industry opposition to the controversial mining project at Alaska's Bristol Bay is growing: by last May, dozens of jewelry retailers had vowed to not buy gold from what would be the country's largest open - pit mine and
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A controversial Chinese copper mine in Afghanistan has run into complications after the executive leading the $ 3 billion project was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party for corruption.
A Chilean court on Friday offered a lifeline to a controversial billion - dollar mining project which had been put on hold over its planned location near a reserve which is home to a rare species of penguin.
But the Bank has run up against a determined international resistance to its most controversial project to date — a pair of coal mega mine and export terminals that would ship millions of tons of coal through the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.
With mountaintop removal becoming increasingly controversial, the EPA's decision on the 2,278 - acre Spruce project is being closely watched as a sign of the mining practice's future....
To promote more mining investment, the government is weakening regulation on environmental impact assessments, giving more power to its national police while allowing controversial projects to go ahead.
As semi-nomadic groups are now in a better position to gain Aboriginal title to land, they will seemingly be in a better position to demand from the government an increased level of consultation and accommodation in the undertaking of controversial economic development projects like mining, oil and gas, fracking, mineral rights, and environmental harvesting.