Sentence examples for mining proposals from inspiring English sources

It also proposed to allow the body to decide mining proposals on the land and receive royalties.

A spokesman for Coast and County, Derec Davies, said the fact it took legal action from conservationists to establish that the company had "grossly inflated" the purported economic benefits highlighted a "huge problem" with government scrutiny of mining proposals.

This situation resonates at the local level, where environmental groups faced, for example, with coal mining proposals, find themselves up against big businesses with huge financial resources, political influence and, shamefully, government support.

Alpha is one of six Galilee basin mining proposals singled out last week in a climate advocacy report arguing they must be stopped if global warming is to be kept to 1.5C, the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement.

"We urge the government to use the powers it now has to properly test the ecological sustainability of advanced mining proposals, and to ensure proper scrutiny and capacity to challenge decisions where environmental destruction is proposed".

If mining proposals are to receive more positive reception in host communities and regions, they will need to be planned, reviewed and approved in ways that ensure they contribute to more sustainable regional futures.

A government commission has now rejected the mining proposal.

All live in the Melody Rocks near Cooktown on Cape York Peninsula, which fall under a mining proposal under consideration by the Queensland state government.

The mining proposal is currently before the Queensland government but has yet to be referred to the federal government for assessment under the EPBC Act.

While many congressional Republicans, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex). oppose what they've described as EPA's "preemptive" veto of the project, public opinion in Alaska on the mining proposal remains split.

A mining proposal that received some eleventh-hour permits from British Columbia's outgoing Christy Clark government has another legal challenge on its hands—and this one is from the feds.