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impact on Indigenous people and their communities?

Some communities were faced with environmental contamination when they were left with 237,000 tonnes of arsenic after mines were abandoned.

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However, there is also a positive impact on indigenous community such as access access to jobs and wages, improved life style, and access to goods and variety of foods.

Rapid change to the communities' functions Legal disputes Environmental degradation Changes in the ways people use their land Increased mental stress Loss of culture Strangers in the community Noise from machinery Traffic from mining Exposure to toxic materials Higher chance of natural disasters

impact/consequence of potential overuse?

The overuse of natural resources, in general, affect our future generations and have a potential to leave other generations without resources to exist. Canada mines coal which is not a renewable resource. Moreover, the extraction of minerals affect land, water, and air.

What should be done to protect the environment and the industry in particular

The regulations or control would be a great solution for creating a safer use of other resources such as water, land and air while mining minerals and metals.

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The regulations may be one of the solutions to protect the environment. However, with moving to low-carbon schemas, the mining industry might not be able to keep up with the regulations and will affect the prices for consumers.

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impact of climate change

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, 195 countries pledged to limit global warming to well below 2.0°C, and ideally not more than 1.5°C above pre industrial levels That target, if pursued, would manifest in decarbonization across industries, creating major shifts in commodity demand for the mining industry and likely resulting in declining global mining revenue pools.

The world’s move towards low-carbon economies, affecting the mining industry. Transition risk: Changing political, social, and consumer perceptions of high GHG (half global GHG emission) emitting and polluting industries. Changing regulatory and legal framework Regional security concern Litigation and investigation, legal issues, and existing and future lawsuits

The Canadian mining sector faces various effects of climate change: Physical effect: Remote and challenging locations affected by changing climate conditions such as extreme weather, limited access to water, food, and other resources Occupational health and safety risk Transportation (bringing workers, equipment, supplies, and minerals to the market) Rising sea levels (damaged roads, ports and other transport infrastructure)

geographic info

Mines and quarries are locatated in every province and territory of Canada. For example, gold is extracted in British Columbia, Quebec, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Yukon, and Nunavut. Coal is extracted British Columbia, Alberta, and Nova Scotia. Many other minerals and metals are extracted throughout of Canada and significantly contribute to the economic development.

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general info

The equipment which is used in mining usually is very big. Some of them are diggers, loaders, and trucks. They are used to excavate raw materials, load, and transfer them from different types of mines and quarries to the surface and to the processing factories.

Extraction of the minerals and metals are done in variety of ways like underground mines, open-pit mines, and quarries

Name

Canadian mining industry represented by Mining Association of Canada. Provides 263,000 indirect jobs, 403,000 direct jobs.

Mining Industry in Canada is regulated by federal, provincial, and territorial government. Provintial and territorial government regulate exploration and extraction of miniral and metals. Federal government regulates foreign investment. And all three overlook of the impact of mining on the environment and taxation. Mining contributed $125 billion to the GDP in 2021.

Canada mines 60 different minerals and metals from around 200 mines and 6500 quarries, such as gold, iron ore, cobalt, nickel, graphite, copper, potash, zink, aluminium and coal. https://www.canadaaction.ca/mining_sector_canada_by_the_numbers