environmental

• industry activities

  • Includes oil and gas extraction, poorly planned seismic tests, drilling operations, gas flaring, deforestation, oil spills and industrial accidents 
  • Impact: severely harm the environment 
  • Disrupt local ecosystems 
  • Impacting activities like fishing (supporting services– food for the people)
  • Impacting activities like tourism (cultural– tourists can no longer visit these places as they can be unsafe or unappealing to the eye)
• landscape changes

  • Include: pollution of (air, water and land) and erosion and slope failures 
  • Mining operations often require large amounts of water, which can be problematic in areas where water is scarce or needed for other vital purposes like agricultural or drinking, or to support local ecosystems 
  • This affecting supporting services (such as drinking water for the people, polluted water can affect fishes in the water bodies, affecting the amount of food for the people who live next to the water bodies)