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Update news titanium exploitation
Residents in Le Thuy District, central Quang Binh Province, have become concerned about environment pollution caused by titanium exploitation.
VietNamNet Bridge - Four small-scale titanium processing projects in Binh Thuan have caused serious damage to the land.
The central and southern regions are choosing to develop environmentally friendly projects rather than mining and industrial projects.
The National Institute of Mining – Metallurgy Science & Technology (Vilumki) found that climate change has had a significant impact on titanium exploitation, with output predicted to decrease by 30 percent.
VietNamNet Bridge - Experts have urged the government to stop licensing titanium exploitation projects after an incident at the red mud reservoir in Binh Thuan province on June 16.
VietNamNet Bridge – The benefits from the titanium exploitation are much smaller than the loses localities incur. Especially, the local people’s lives have been upset by the exploitation.
VietNamNet Bridge – Sand is always a part of the lunches and dinners of the local people in the titanium rich area.
The whole land strip in the central region, which is believed to possess big tourism potentials with beautiful beaches, has been damaged by the mineral exploitation activities.
Natural breakwaters and coastal preventive forests would lose, while radioactive pollution of the air and water would be serious, which would threaten people’s health. All these are the visible consequences in titanium exploitation areas.