#environmental-impacts

#environmental-impacts

The gravel road and mining project, north of Fairbanks, Alaska, is something that should've been long operating and making billions of dollars for our country and supplying a lot of energy and minerals, Trump said at an Oval Office ceremony. Former president Joe Biden undid it and wasted a lot of time and a lot of money, a lot of effort. And now we're starting again. And this time we have plenty of time to get it done, Trump added.

Eighteen rural communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank (AfDB) over its funding of a multibillion-pound water project whose construction process they claim has ruined fields, polluted water sources and damaged homes. About 1,600 people living in the villages in Mokhotlong district in north-east Lesotho are demanding transparency over planned forced relocations and compensation they say they have not been consulted on. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is scheduled for completion by 2029, a decade later than planned.