Sentence examples for mining spill from inspiring English sources

As we've seen in recent days with the mining spill in Colorado, once industry takes up residence on public lands, it is almost impossible to break its grip and go back to the way things were.

Related: Brazil's Sweet River still runs orange seven months after a massive mining spill.

Kamp cites the Mount Polley mine spill in British Columbia, Canada, in August 2014 as a worrying precedent.

The spatial distribution of some soil chemical properties and trace element contents of a plot affected by the Aznalcóllar mine spill were investigated using statistical and geostatistical methods to assess the extent of soil contamination.

The ecological restoration performed in ca. 5000 ha of agricultural lands in the Guadiamar river basin (SW Spain), affected by the Aználcollar mine spill in 1998 (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn-rich pyritic sludge), has focused on the re-creation of those controlling mechanisms (enhancement of the natural river flooding dynamics and patchy afforestation).

With this project completed, Cooley continues in this water objective with a project coming to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this winter— one which concerns a wholly different crisis: the staggering contamination of Colorado's water after the recent mine spill.

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While the law helped grow America, it "did nothing to protect the environment and did nothing to require mines to clean up the mess," he said back in 2015, a few months after the devastating Gold King mine spill in Colorado.

Previous studies in the area affected by the mine spill have reported higher genotoxic damage in nestling storks than in controls, with damage having increased 2- to 10-fold between 1999 and 2002 (Pastor et al. 2004).

The exposed colony was situated in the Dehesa de Abajo (DdA; Puebla del Río, Sevilla, southwestern Spain), in the vicinity of Doñana National Park and only 1 km from the area affected by the Aznalcóllar mine spill in 1998 (Baos et al. 2006).

Among coal-mining spills, it was twice that of its biggest forerunner, 28 years ago in Buffalo Creek, W.Va., which killed 125 people and swallowed 500 homes.