While Canada has performed well on the mining stage, the experts speaking at the risks and rewards in mining session did not cite Canada as a problematic mining environment.
The court halted mining of the ore in the mineral-rich state in 2011 after social activist group Samaj Parivartan Samuday alleged that rampant illegal mining had damaged the environment.
Or will both sides work together to ensure that mining is compatible with the environment and social development?
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At the same time East Kalimantan, where Bayan operates, is considering plans to cap annual coal output in an effort to promote alternative energy and cut back on the damage coal mining has done to the environment.
The Conga project has become a lightning rod for larger debates about whether mining can benefit local communities without damaging the environment and whether or not national economic interests should trump local opposition to mining activities.
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Peru didn't have an environment ministry until 2008 and the mining and energy ministry remains in charge of approving environmental impact statement for the extractive industries.
It says Poland really must do something about its inefficient and subsidised mining and farming, and clean up its filthy environment.
The operating environment is already quite challenging for the mining companies.
In Africa, because of economic pressures and slower evolution of environmental awareness, local communities have been particularly exposed to the detrimental effects of mining contamination on public health, agriculture and the environment.
Mercury can be released into the environment through a number of industrial processes including mining, metal and cement production, and the burning of fossil fuels.
We've done agricultural, forestry mining and also military applications, which can train soldiers about an environment or scenario before they do it for real.
The convention is an opportunity for people working, or invested, in the mining industry to visit booths of miners, mining technology companies and rub shoulders with experts in a large open environment.
The council's environment committee has evacuated 46 families, affected by leukemia and other problems, from the mining areas.
It is no coincidence that mining and energy firms are active in health: they are, after all, used to thinking about the environment in similar terms.
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