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Panel to probe illegal sand mining near Marina beach
17.09.2021Panel to probe illegal sand mining near Marina beach T.K. Rohit CHENNAI, September 18, 2021 00:52 IST Updated: September 18, 2021 00:53 IST T.K. Rohit CHENNAI, September 18, 2021 00:52 IST Updated
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Stop Illegal Sand Mining Destroying the Wild Coast in South
30.04.2015As you read these words, illegal miners are rapidly carrying away the sand dunes at over 200 sites along the previously unspoilt Wild Coast. Undermining the hard earned, yet tenuous, wins in protracted battles against proposed titanium mining and toll road construction this coastal region is now being destroyed for far less socio-economic gain
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Illegal sand mining: Sunamganj's biggest challenge
2021-05-02This has going on for years, a local resident told UNB. On March 24, a task force comprising officials from the local administration, police, BGB and RAB seized large quantities of illegally mined sand and stones from various local traders. Read Also: Sand lifting puts homesteads, farmland under erosion threat in N'ganj Sand mining in Sunamganj
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Africa: We are Living in Hell, Says Activist from South African Coal
14-11-2022[allAfrica] Sharm el-Sheikh -- The science is clear - using fossil fuels is pushing us beyond the planet's ability to sustain life. Experts say there are nine planetary boundaries we need to respect for life on earth to continue but despite all these dire pre
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Liberia: Illegal Sand Mining Along Sinkor Beach Causing Sea
16.02.2022Monrovia – Residents at the beachside of Sinkor between 10th and 11th Streets have expressed frustration that their homes are being destroyed due to the continued act of illegal sand mining in the area. Speaking in separate interviews, residents of the area told FrontPageAfrica that if the situation is not quickly addressed, their homes would be swept
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Can smart policies solve the sand mining problem?
02.04.2021nonetheless, detrimental effects of sand mining also occur outside protected areas [ 4, 5, 7 – 9 ]: water flows and marine currents can be changed; the benthic fauna is destroyed; fish and crab populations decline in rivers and the sea causing a loss of fishermen's livelihood; the pressure on endangered species increases with a negative impact on
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India's illegal sand mining trade claims hundreds of lives and
24.06.2015Sand mining allegedly destroys ecosystems and in the US it is blamed for the erosion of beaches, water, and air pollution. Since 2005, over 20 Indonesian islands have been lost due to the effects
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12.11.2020UNREGULATED and illegal sand mining has become a great environmental concern in Namibia since 2015, a recent study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has revealed. In a summary of
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Liberia: LEITI Will Review Licenses to Deter Illegal Mining of
2022-10-31Monrovia – Mr. Jeffery Yate, head of the Liberia Extractive Initiative Transparency Initiative (LEITI), has assured the Liberian Senate that LEITI will review licenses received from the Ministry of Lands and Mines to ensure that people are not illegally mining the country's natural resources.. Mr. Yate made the assurance Friday, 28 October when he appeared
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'Sand mafia, goonda tax': Illegal mining is no secret, but still an
28.01.2022One-third of this royalty, according the Punjab District Mineral Foundation Rules, 2018, must be given to the state government. Last November, the cost of sand in Punjab was revised to Rs 5.50/cubic feet from Rs 9 earlier. The state government has also reduced the royalty for sand and gravel to Rs 18.25 per tonne from Rs 60 per tonne.
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Illegal Sand Mining Violence 2018: at least 28 People died
28.02.2019Sharma had in July 2017 exposed an illegal sand mining nexus between the police and the sand mafia in the area and had claimed that he was on the hit-list of the mafia. The police officer was transferred after the news channel had aired an audio conversation of him. In June 2018, Narmada Bachao Andolan activists were attacked when they tried to stop 3 tractors
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What is some really messed up things the United States has
The Sand Creek Massacre. Troops attacked a native American village without provocation and brutally murdered and scalped them, totaling about 400. There's accounts saying they cut open a pregnant woman and scalped the fetus and one where a mother and her two children killed themselves because they didn't want to be brutally killed by the Americans.
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Backgrounder: The legal fight against illegal sand
21.03.2015While the issue of sand mining had been known earlier as well, it has gained significant legal prominence ever since the Supreme Court of India, in its order dated February 27, 2012, went on to
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AN ACT ADOPTING A NEW MINERALS AND MINING LAW PART
Section 16.10 Child Labour Prohibited Section 16.11 Use of Explosives Section 16.12 Application for an Explosive Permit . Part I of Title 23 of the Liberian Code of Laws Revised. PART I. MINERALS AND MINING LAW CHAPTER 1. phosphate rock, sandstone, beach sand, slate and talc when mined for the use in Liberia for agricultural, building,
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Social and Environmental Impacts of Mining
23.11.2019There are however some social negative impacts associated with mining including violence, child labour, escalation of gender inequalities, health and environmental effects including deforestation and pollution. In this section, the focus will be on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). However, environmental impacts of industrial sand
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Illegal sand mining threatens Morocco's coastline and
The illegal sand mining business is run by a syndicate second in size to Morocco's drug mafia The decree also only targets registered companies that break fiscal and environmental laws. This creates the incentive for
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Shifting Sands: Illegal sand mining is killing both
2020-10-06Illegal sand mining has grown exponentially in the country ever since the 1990s when the economy opened up and along with it the real estate boom. As the building industry flourished, the demand for sand rose
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Liberia: Family in Gbarpolu Accuses Chinese Mining
2019-10-16Weasua, Gbarpolu – There seems to be brewing tension over land encroachment between the John P. Saah Family in Gbarpolu County and a Chinese Company, "Sheng Xin De Yuan Mining Company INC," involved in
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Sweeping illegal sand mining under the rug in Uganda
Sweeping illegal sand mining under the rug in Uganda. 2020-08-10. Criminal entrepreneurs are tapping into Uganda's vast reserves of sand, exploiting a sector which is largely unregulated by government. Posing as sand mining investors, they have formed local cartel networks with support from 'influential people' with government connections. They run and sell shipments of
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Sand mining was found to affect sediment transport and the composition of riverbeds, including both reduced (Gonzlez et al., especially in light of recent policy developments such as the recognition of the legal rights of
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Illegal Sand Mining in South Africa
15.12.2014Illegal Sand Mining in South Africa. Photo: Romy Chevallier. Natural sand from estuary and coastal land is one of South Africa's most valuable resources. However, there has recently been a drastic increase in uncontrolled and unauthorised sand mining activities in rivers, valleys and estuaries throughout the country. Natural sand from estuary
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Illegal sand mining in South Africa
The frameworks governing small-scale sand mining in South Africa lack the necessary financial and human resource capacities to support better environmental compliance, and the enforcement mechanisms to successfully deter illegal activities are weak. Consequently, there has been a flurry of new entrants to the sector, creating a system fraught with
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Illegal sand mining destroying Garo Hills ecology in
23.01.2018Ground survey reveals that at least 20 trucks of sand gets extracted from a stretch of 30 kilometers from the Ganol river in West Garo Hills, leave alone Simsang and other Garo Hills rivers, where Illegal sand mining
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South Africa: ConCourt Hands Critics of Australian Mine Partial
1 Read judgment one and judgment twoThe applicants in this case are Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC), its South African subsidiary Mineral Sands Resources, previous MRC
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Curbing Unregulated River Sand Mining in Sri Lanka
It is estimated that more than 35 of the 103 rivers in Sri Lanka are subject to illicit RSM and that more than 50% of all sand used in the construction sector is sourced from unlawful operations. Additionally, a survey conducted by three
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Liberia: 'Illicit Mining Activities on the Increase'
25.02.2022Minister Murray indicated that though government, through the ministry issues different kind of licenses for ASM mining in Liberia, illegal mining activities continue to be on the increase. He made specific reference to illicit mining activities ongoing in Gbarpolu County. He said though Class C license is restricted to only Liberians, foreign partners are getting
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Sand smuggling in Southeast Asia
Sand smuggling is a cross-border environmental crime which describes the illegal transportation of often illegally extracted natural sand and gravel. While sand smuggling and illegal mining are global concerns, they are especially acute in Asia, where continuing urbanization and the region's large construction boom are driving the increasing demand for sand.
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Tracking the Source of Illegal Sand Mining
29.10.2020Because of the rapid degradation of the landscape, India has banned sand mining in many rivers. This has led to illegal sand mining — and even murders — to keep the sand flowing. There are no global treaties that tackle sand mining, so only local regulations, which are often toothless, can control the practice.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION RESULTING
21.01.2016PDF | ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION RESULTING FROM ILLEGAL SAND MINING | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate. Research PDF Available. ENVIRONMENTAL
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Illegal sand
16.06.2016Illegal sand-mining an environmental danger. ILLEGAL sand-mining is a cause for major concern to the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, a senior official told a recent seminar on water
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Illegal Sand Mining
ILLEGAL SAND MINING What is Sand mining Used For: Sand mining is a practice that is used to extract sand, mainly through an open pit. However, sand is also mined from beaches, inland dunes and dredged from ocean beds and river beds. It is often used in manufacturing as an abrasive, for example, and it is used to make concrete.
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Himachal Pradesh sand mining 2020: No Replenishment study, district
25.04.2020The state govt has auctioned about 450 sites barring Kinnaur and Lahul Spiti districts; despite that illegal sand mining has been taking place resulting in revenue losses. The govt has acted against 8360 illegal mining incidents of which 1911 are from Mandi district where as only 205 cases have been reported in Solan district. In overloading cases, only the owner is
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The Uttar Pradesh illegal sand mining scam is a political scandal relating to events that occurred in 2012–2017 during the Samajwadi Party (SP) rule. It is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the 2016 orders of Allahabad High Court for allowing illegal mining in 7 districts of Uttar Pradesh – Shamli, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Kaushambi
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Ghana: Govt Committed to Restoring Country's Eco
08-11-2022The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has expressed the commitment of the government towards restoring the country's eco-systems that had been altered
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Why the world is running out of sand
08.11.2019In many Western countries, river sand mining has already been largely phased out. Getting the rest of the world to follow suit will be tough, though. "Preventing or reducing likely damage to
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Boom in illegal sand mining threatens vulnerable lakes and rivers
Illegal sand mining driven by a post-pandemic surge in infrastructure spending risks causing degradation to some of the world's most vulnerable lakes and rivers, environmental researchers have
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Ghana: Govt Committed to Restoring Country's Eco
The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Kwaku Afriyie, has expressed the commitment of the government towards restoring the country's eco-systems that had been altered
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Illegal sand mining leaves open pits of death
20.02.2019He says illegal sand mining led to the deaths of three people in the district last year alone. Mosielele says the loss of livestock which are trapped in the gaping pits after falling in there accidentally is even greater. "You will be surprised that some of this illegally mined sand builds our roads and government offices," says Mosielele.
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