Limestone Quarrying Impacts

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What is a social advantage of limestone quarrying?
Limestone Quarrying creates jobs
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What are some economic advantages of limestone quarrying?
It creates jobs, Limestone is a useful raw material
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What are some environmental advantages of limestone quarrying?
Area is landscaped to blend with natural surroundings after quarry is finished, limestone is a useful raw material
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What is a social disadvantage of limestone quarrying?
Lorries transporting limestone adds to the traffic
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What are environmental disadvantages of limestone quarrying?
Quarries are an eyesore and destroy natural habitats, More lorries means more carbon dioxide, explosives used to extract limestone creat both air and noise pollution.
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