Dear editor of the Courier Mail,
The idea of mining in the scenic rim is horrific. Right now at this stage we need to save the environment! Not destroy it! You’re also destroying people’s homes, lands. This is how people come homeless and helpless. You also need to think about all the living things like animals and plants. If you want this world to continue on living you need to support it, to protect it.
Mining takes heaps of land so that’s meaning heaps of people’s homes and lands (mostly the farmers). The farmers need their precious land to grow their crop. To make money, to survive in life. The land is their everything; if they lost their land they would lose their life’s work. Everything that they’ve put into life is into their land. You can’t take that away from them. That’s just cruelty. Just imagine that you’re in their shoes with your work. You put 100% effort into your work don’t you? You work hard to get paid. To support your wife, children or just yourself. Imagine that all destroyed because of mining. Finding jobs these days isn’t so easy anymore. You need to think about others and how they will get affected. …show more content…
For example, hydraulic mining techniques are used for mining gold; this process involves blasting at banks of rivers. This has caused permanent damage to trees and also birds plus other life in forests. While separating the sediment and mercury from the gold-yielding gravel deposits, small scale miners who are less prepared then industrial miners, may ignore release of some mercury into the river. This enters the food chain through aquatic animals and their predators. Extremely poisonous compound ‘cyanide’ is also used to separate gold from sediment and rock. In spite of all protective measures, it sometimes escapes into the nearby environment. People who eat fish are greater risk of ingesting such
The idea of mining in the scenic rim is horrific. Right now at this stage we need to save the environment! Not destroy it! You’re also destroying people’s homes, lands. This is how people come homeless and helpless. You also need to think about all the living things like animals and plants. If you want this world to continue on living you need to support it, to protect it.
Mining takes heaps of land so that’s meaning heaps of people’s homes and lands (mostly the farmers). The farmers need their precious land to grow their crop. To make money, to survive in life. The land is their everything; if they lost their land they would lose their life’s work. Everything that they’ve put into life is into their land. You can’t take that away from them. That’s just cruelty. Just imagine that you’re in their shoes with your work. You put 100% effort into your work don’t you? You work hard to get paid. To support your wife, children or just yourself. Imagine that all destroyed because of mining. Finding jobs these days isn’t so easy anymore. You need to think about others and how they will get affected. …show more content…
For example, hydraulic mining techniques are used for mining gold; this process involves blasting at banks of rivers. This has caused permanent damage to trees and also birds plus other life in forests. While separating the sediment and mercury from the gold-yielding gravel deposits, small scale miners who are less prepared then industrial miners, may ignore release of some mercury into the river. This enters the food chain through aquatic animals and their predators. Extremely poisonous compound ‘cyanide’ is also used to separate gold from sediment and rock. In spite of all protective measures, it sometimes escapes into the nearby environment. People who eat fish are greater risk of ingesting such