Sentences with phrase «led resource extraction»

While foreign - led resource extraction may seem as an easy way to ensure economic growth, it is often not sustainable in the long term and poses enormous ecological ramifications.

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As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

The opponents of the Rosia Montana project are leading a historic battle that will play a decisive role in shaping not only the prospects for Romania and the extraction of its natural resources, but of all countries» relations with international corporations and the future of international mining.

It can enable reasonable living standards to be obtained with smaller per capita consumption of resources, but more efficient technology can also lead to increasing extraction rates — chainsaw logging of forests and industrial scale deep sea fishing, for example.

It has also led them to explore for and develop more carbon intensive unconventional fossil resources such as tight oil, with associated increases in emissions from flaring; thermal enhanced oil recovery, with increased emissions associated with producing steam, and oil sands, with increased emissions associated with extraction, upgrading and refining (Brandt et al. 2010).