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Resource extraction can include both nonrenewable and renewable resource projects where there is a large impact on the local community and environment, such as a new forestry development. Resource projects include:

 Mining and quarrying

 Off-shore oil and gas facilities

 On-shore oil and gas drilling and fracking

 Forestry

Resource extraction projects have a number of unique challenges associated with the depletion of finite resources, royalties for access to the resources, and managing within the constraints of the location of the resource as opposed to being able to select a location for the facility. Project sites are often in remote areas where the potential for large impacts on the local community is high both from a positive perspective (jobs, skills development, and economic development) and from a negative perspective (social disruption, environmental damage, waste management, and impacts on health).

Resource extraction projects often include their own infrastructure projects within the overall project such as pipelines, road and rail transport, marine ports, water treatment, power plants, waste disposal, and landfills. Resource extraction may also incorporate large industrial projects like mineral processing facilities at a mine site.