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South Reinkalistan | Commissariat of the Exterior | Directorate of World Assembly Affairs
"The People's Federation has observed that there is a need to enact legislation on the treatment of toxic mine tailings for the betterment of the natural environment. After much debate in the People's Congress, it was determined that the following draft would be submitted for discussion in the General Assembly. For any queries and criticisms, Ambassador Lakersk Turnov is instructed to represent South Reinkalistan in the World Assembly. Please take them up with him."
Isolation of Toxic Mine Tailings
Category: Environmental | Industry Affected: Mining | Proposed by: South Reinkalistan
The World Assembly,
Noting that certain mine tailings undergo processes that can render them toxic or otherwise harmful;
Recognising that this warrants a necessity to isolate these tailings sufficiently from the natural environment;
Asserting that all threats to the natural environment must therefore be countered to ensure global prosperity;
Understanding that toxic mine tailings must therefore be isolated to prevent their detriment to such factors;
Hereby,
- Defines, for the purposes of this resolution:
- "Mine Tailings" (herein "Tailings") as "the waste product remaining following the separation of the valuable fraction of an ore from its uneconomic fraction";
- "Isolated" as "removed or otherwise separated from any location in which it possesses a proven capacity to act in detriment to the natural environment";
- Any "harmful" substance as "possessing a proven capacity to act in significant detriment to the natural environment";
- Mandates that all harmful tailings must be sufficiently isolated;
- Establishes the Commission for Mine Tailing Isolation (herein "CMTI") for the purposes of properly and thoroughly inspecting the disposal of tailings in national territories;
- Instructs the CMTI to aid and assist nationalised mining institutions and private contractors as an advisory body for the safe and secure isolation of dangerous or toxic tailings;
- Mining institutions and private contractors are charged with heeding the advice of the CMTI wherever possible;
- Requires all national governments to undertake inspection of private mining contractors to ensure that they are compliant with this resolution; and
- Further requires national governments to ensure that these regulations are followed to the best of their abilities.