Illegal sand mining is big business for organized crime
Illegal sand mining is big business for organized crime
Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?
Of all the dystopian shit I was expecting from the future, a "sand shortage" with "sand theft" were not on my list.
It's a thing. Criminals do what is most profitable and the rest be damned. I found the charts showing how it's stacked up against other traditional forms of organized crime. Very interesting.
There's a project proposed in Manitoba that would use 7,700 wells to suck up sand from 50 m below ground.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/springfield-silica-referendum-results-1.6971774
Actually read a bit on this their project environmental assessment is online I think and I dug into it. The reason that they are going after the sand is because It's highly uniform and it's composition and therefore valuable for its engineering properties