For gold mining is an extractive industry that eventually exhausts the resource it exploits.
State environmental officials and coal region lawmakers are hoping that the state's newest extractive industry can help clean up a giant mess left by the last one.
And of course, reducing water consumption does not mitigate concerns about prolonging our reliance on fossil fuels or the inherently ugly nature of extractive industry, especially for local neighbors.
The truth is that the oil and gas industry receives the same kinds of tax treatments that every other manufacturing or extractive industry receives in the federal tax code.
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This has led to comparisons with Appalachia, which has also relied on a declining extractive industry (coal mining) and has suffered from high unemployment, poverty and a relatively unskilled workforce.
For many in the conservation and development communities who worry about the environmental and social impacts of the extractive industry and who have looked at the challenges of operating in sensitive areas like the Niger Delta and northern Alaska, the news of gas companies coming to northern Mozambique is not entirely welcome.
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He fixes the drones that protect earth's only remaining industry, a vast extractive operation that's supposedly providing power for an ongoing human migration to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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The Peruvian economy is diversified with, the service sector accounting for 53% of its GDP, followed by the manufacturing industry (34.8%), the extractive industries (15%) and agriculture (7%).
The oil and gas industry has long been a strong supporter of transparency and deeply involved in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
"It is true that the main resources and capital was concentrated in the banking, construction and extractive industries, " said Prime Minister Masimov in the BBC interview, stressing that the nation could develop its IT industry and become a regional IT hub.
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