Loading ...liqueified natural gas (LNG) proposals fall by the wayside because the proponents have not worked out an acceptable long-term arrangement with local residents regarding the sustainability of the proposed project. I give credit to the mining industry for trying to develop better approaches to this challenging situation that the energy industry has faced for many project proposals.
The link below describes the work and objectives of a group trying to develop better approaches to resource development. And what impresses me most is that this initiative involves mainly mining engineers who are training young people how to explore and develop the earth’s mineral wealth. The mining engineers are working with someone with a sociology background, but the important point is that mining engineers are themselves involved in finding innovative ways to solve the local problems encountered by resource development proposals. The success or failure of future project proposals will be the test of whether they can come up with better approaches than are now available to the mining industry. I am hopeful and confident that important advances can be made to ensure that future mine development projects can proceed.
http://www.bcbusiness.ca/natural-resources/how-ubc-is-digging-the-mining-industry-out-of-a-hole