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Mining companies are underprepared for climate change
2013-04-28 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Dr Barton Loechel is a Research Scientist in the Science into Society Group within the division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering. Dr Loechels main role is investigating climate change vulnerability and adaptation within the mining industry and its associated communities. An important part of this project is to explore the vulnerability and adaptation options for regional systems and value chains associated with mining. Dr Loechel is investigating three main areas: An important part...
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Australia: Shale mining under Great Barrier Reef 'likely to be banned'
2013-04-25 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Mining shale oil under the Great Barrier Reef is likely to be banned by Australia's federal Labor government as tensions rise over the environmental impact of the booming oil and gas industry on the coastline beside the reef. In February, the conservative Queensland state government lifted a moratorium on the shale oil industry in most places along the coast to allow companies to assess whether the US shale oil boom could be replicated in Australia. Power firm Queensland Energy Resources is...
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Mountain-Top Removal Mining: Now Threatening Wisconsin!
2013-04-25 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deep Green Resistance: A proposed iron mining effort would create the largest open pit mine in the world in northern Wisconsin.The 22,000 acres of mountain-top removal-style strip mining would potentially dump millions of tons of waste rock into the headwaters of the Bad River, polluting everything downstream including beautiful Copper Falls State Park, the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation, crucial wetland Kakagon Sloughs, and Lake Superior. Many local residents fear that the huge mine will eat into nearby sulfide-mineral...
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Mining and logging companies 'leaving all of Chile without water'
2013-04-24 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: More than 100 environmental, social and indigenous organisations protested in the Chilean capital, Santiago, this week to demand that the state regain control of the management of water, which was privatised by the then dictatorship in 1981. More than 6,000 people took part in the peaceful "great carnival march for the recovery and defence of water" on Monday, according to the organisers, one of whom was former student leader Camila Vallejo, who plans to run for parliament as a Communist party...
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Serbia's unabated quest for coal causes tremors among mining communities
2013-04-24 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Vitomir Simic, 53, points at the faded, black and white photograph of his parents, still hanging on the wall of the home he abandoned in Radljevo, a village south-west of Belgrade, Serbia. Its modest frame hides only an inch of the giant fractures that ripped open the walls of the house where he was born, and forced him and his three children to flee. Simic works nearby in the Kolubara coal mine, helping to maintain the giant excavators that gouge the earth day and night. This relentless quest...
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