Sentence examples for mining has devastated from inspiring English sources
But illegal mining has devastated the island, causing environmental damage and dangerous conditions for miners.
Greenhouse gas emissions of tar sands crude are 40% higher than conventional oil, and the open-pit mining has devastated Alberta's boreal forest.
In the otherwise carefully detailed story of how mining has devastated Treece, Kan., Wes Enzinna notes that he was unable to interview one of its two remaining residents, Tim Busby, because "he didn't like reporters".
According to former environmental minister Antonio Brack Egg, gold mining has devastated nearly 370,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon.
Coal mining in China has killed a million people through accidents and black lung; mountaintop removal mining has devastated Appalachia; oil and fighting over control of it has killed millions and financed awful regimes from Iran to ISIS; industrial agriculture has poisoned our food and water, endangering our health; deforestation is killing off some of the most beautiful animals on our planet.
Despite recent studies that prove that mountaintop removal and coal mining have devastated the Appalachian economies and health, cost the coal states more in services than tax revenues, and holds back sustainable development for the future, Big Coal continues to threaten coal mining communities with impending doom if they consider any alternatives.
For example, a sharp pullback has devastated Zambia as their copper mining industry implodes.
"It has devastated the community.
Dewey's collapse has devastated its employees.
Pollution has devastated the fishing industry.
