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Social and Psychological Dimensions of Mining Activities and Impacts on Quality of Life STATE OF KNOWLEDGE Social and Psychological Dimensions of Mining Activities and Impacts on Quality of Life STATE OF KNOWLEDGE Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie May 2017 AUTHORS Review of the literature Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien, Scientific Advisor Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie Documentary research and methodology Marie-Christine Gervais, Scientific Advisor Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie WITH THE COOPERATION OF Luce Lemieux-Huard, Trainee Département sociétés, territoires et développement, Université du Québec à Rimouski Mariève Pelletier, Scientific Advisor Direction des risques biologiques et de la santé au travail Patrick Poulin, Scientific Advisor Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie SCIENTIFIC REVISION Odile Bergeron, Indigenous Health Advisor Vice-présidence à la valorisation scientifique et aux communications Stéphane Bessette, Environmental Health Advisor and Team Leader Direction de santé publique, CISSS de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue Geneviève Brisson, Professor Département sociétés, territoires et développement, Université du Québec à Rimouski Karine Chaussé, Scientific Coordinator Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie Catherine Morin-Boulais, Anthropologist Département d’anthropologie, Université Laval Paul-Georges Rossi, Environmental Health Unit Advisor Direction de la protection de la santé publique, ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux Jean-Daniel Trottier, Environmental Health Advisor Direction de santé publique, CISSS de la Côte-Nord Documentary Research Support and Internal Revision (methodology section) Vicky Tessier, Librarian Vice-présidence à la valorisation scientifique et aux communications REVISION AND FORMATTING Véronique Paquet, Administrative Officer Direction de la santé environnementale et de la toxicologie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report was made possible by the financial support of the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux. The authors wish to sincerely thank Richard Martin and Mathieu Gauthier, scientific advisors with the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, for their valuable expertise in the field of noise and vibrations. Thanks also go out to Léandre Lecomte and Renaud Bisson-Dion, research assistants at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, for the documentary sources they provided. The translation of this publication was made possible with funding from Health Canada. This French version is entitled Dimensions sociales et psychologiques associées aux activités minières et impacts sur la qualité de vie and is also available in its entirety in electronic format (PDF) on the website of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec at: http://www.inspq.qc.ca. Any reproduction for purposes of private study or research is authorized under section 29 of the Copyright Act. Any other use must be authorized by the Government of Quebec, which holds the exclusive intellectual property rights on this document. Such authorization may be obtained by submitting a request to the central clearinghouse of the Management of Québec government copyrights service, using an online form available at the following address: http://www.droitauteur.gouv.qc.ca/autorisation.php or by email to the following address: [email protected]. Information contained in the document may be cited provided that the source is mentioned. Legal deposit – 3rd quarter 2018 Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec ISBN: 978-2-550-79786-9 (French PDF) ISBN : 978-2-550-82091-8 (PDF) © Gouvernement du Québec (2018) Social and Psychological Dimensions of Mining Activities and Impacts on Quality of Life Table of contents List of tables .......................................................................................................................................... III Key messages ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 7 2 Methodology ................................................................................................................................... 9 2.1 Review approach ................................................................................................................... 9 2.2 Documentary research .......................................................................................................... 9 2.2.1 Consultation of databases and search engines ....................................................... 9 2.2.2 Other documentary sources consulted .................................................................. 10 2.2.3 Documentary research criteria ................................................................................ 11 2.2.4 Analysis of relevance .............................................................................................. 11 2.2.5 Assessment of document quality ........................................................................... 12 2.3 Research assessment .......................................................................................................... 13 3 Results ........................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1 Mining-related nuisance impacts on quality of life .............................................................. 15 3.1.1 Dust ......................................................................................................................... 16 3.1.2 Noise and vibrations ............................................................................................... 16 3.1.3 Road traffic.............................................................................................................. 17 3.2 Social dimensions of mining activities ................................................................................. 18 3.2.1 Announcement of mine project and exploration .................................................... 18 3.2.2 Mining operations ................................................................................................... 19 3.2.3 Closing .................................................................................................................... 27 3.3 Psychological dimensions associated with mining activities .............................................. 28 3.3.1 Announcement of mine exploration project ........................................................... 28 3.3.2 Mining operations ................................................................................................... 29 3.3.3 Mine closing ............................................................................................................ 30 4 Discussion and conclusion .......................................................................................................... 31 4.1 Summary of results .............................................................................................................. 31 4.2 Factors modulating the impacts ....................................................................................... 32 4.3 Avenues for action or research ............................................................................................ 32 5 References .................................................................................................................................... 35 Appendix 1 Mining cycle ..................................................................................................................... 41 Appendix 2 EBSCOhost platform search history ............................................................................. 47 Appendix 3 Description of the documents selected during quality assessment stage .............. 51 Appendix 4 List of the documents rejected during quality assessment stage ............................ 69 Institut national de santé publique du Québec I Social and Psychological Dimensions of Mining Activities and Impacts on Quality of Life List of tables Table 1 Research strategies via the EBSCOhost platform and search engines ........................... 10 Table 2 Additional documentary research criteria ......................................................................... 11 Table 3 Criteria for assessing relevance of summaries ................................................................. 11 Table 4 Documentary research assessment .................................................................................. 14 Institut national de santé publique du Québec III Social and Psychological Dimensions of Mining Activities and Impacts on Quality of Life Key messages Industry and government interest in Quebec mineral development, particularly in the region targeted by the Plan Nord, is leading public health actors to study development activities and their repercussions on health. To help the public health network better understand the health repercussions of mining activities, a review of the literature has been carried out. This review documents nuisance impacts on quality of life, as well as the