Sentence examples for consequences of mining from inspiring English sources

At the grass-roots level, the internal movement advocating a retreat from coal is both a reaction to the environmental damage and the health consequences of mining — water loss and contamination, smog and soot pollution — and a reconsideration of centuries-old tenets.

"I understood the consequences of mining done poorly," Schultz said.

Women experience direct and indirect consequences of mining activities in different, and often more prominent, ways than men.

While the photographs of coal dumping at the port have led to a flash of public outrage, what really needs exposure is the everyday plight of the workers who toil underground and live with the ecological and economic consequences of mining.

Consequently, the loss of land due to subsidence and other consequences of mining are sure to increase.

But almost none of those earnings returned to those who lost access to grazing land and suffered the environmental consequences of mining, the rebels argued.

I suffered the consequences of mine for nearly four years.

Fauna is sparse on the island due to a combination of a lack of vegetation and the consequences of phosphates mining.

The contamination of water bodies by metal and radionuclide ions is a major unintended consequence of mining in many regions of the world.

We assume that high diversity in this type of secondary habitats is not random, but rather that it depends on environmental heterogeneity caused by a specific allogenic succession process occurring as a direct consequence of mining.

However, the Maroon communities are facing increasing commercial and governmental influence both as a consequence of mining, logging and tourism development in their territory, and attraction of mainly young Maroons to the market economy.