Traduction de «affaissement causé par l'extraction » (Français → Anglais) :

extraction-induced subsidence [ extraction induced subsidence | hydrocarbon extraction subsidence ]

critical area of extraction

Vacuum extraction chignon

Since 2001, growth has slowed in these countries taken together, in part because of the fall-off in growth in the EU, their major export market.

On general ground, to ensure that mining becomes a successful factor of developing countries’ development process, your rapporteur believes that an encompassing strategy is needed that tackles among others the following challenges: how to address the root causes of conflict minerals; how best to manage the environmental, social and human rights impacts of mining, how to better support and integrate artisanal and small-scale mining.

agrees that the growing need for raw materials may lead to greater interest in acquiring them from the sea and ocean floor, and that this can have a substantial impact on the balance of marine ecosystems, some of which we know very little about, seriously disturbing the region and the natural and manmade environment (subsidence, erosion, sea water ingress, etc.) when seabed excavations are close to the coast; therefore, as the Committee has pointed out in its opinions on sustainable development, priority should be given to re-using and recycling these raw materials in order to reduce this economic pressure;

26. Calls on the Commission to play an active role in ensuring that activities carried out by third countries and oil extraction projects comply as fully as possible with strict environmental standards and to make provision for specific mechanisms to compensate for any damage caused by third-country offshore oil operations that border the EU;