Extractive industry is all that is dedicated to exploiting mineral, water, and biological resources from a specific place, or a geographical landscape in terms of geography...There are extractive industries of oil, mining, companies that felled trees, whole system that carries water to your community is an industry of these, there are countless, even saw the again that there is a brand of bottled water in the USA that brings giant blocks of ice from the Antarctic to melt it and sell it...