#sandmining — Public Fediverse posts
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People are often surprised to find that sand mining is happening right here in SF Bay - with the blessing of the State of California, which has been selling millions of tons of Bay sand to make concrete & asphalt.
But sand isn’t just sand, as our executive director Sejal Choksi-Chugh writes in her latest column.
Read more to find out what you can do to help!
https://baykeeper.org/column/the-bays-sand-belongs-to-you-and-me/
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Most people don't know this but the state is selling the Bay's dwindling sand -- so that for-profit companies can turn it into concrete.
Bay sand not only provides habitat for countless creatures, but literally shores up the shoreline. We *need* that sand to stave of erosion and sea level rise.
So we're suing.
Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/baykeeper-challenges-unlawful-sand-mining-leases-for-sf-bay/
Pictured: A sand miner on the Bay by Roger Cunningham
#sanfranciscobay #sfbay #bayarea #sand #sandmining #sealevelrise
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"In #LostLands — Second-Place Winner of the Yale #Environment 360 #Film Contest — #Cambodia-based filmmaker #AndyBall focuses on two families who describe how unchecked mining of river #sand for #UrbanDevelopment has devastated their #fisheries and food-producing #wetlands."
https://e360.yale.edu/features/2023-film-contest-second-place-cambodia-sand