Sentences with phrase «adverse environmental effects»

Wind and solar both have significant adverse environmental effects.

Yet no significant adverse environmental effects of fracking have been proved to date.

Senator Sanders is effectively saying that not only are there important adverse environmental effects from fracking, but they can not be avoided through mandating improved performance if and when they should be proved.

Thus, while concluding that the NGP is likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects with respect to caribou and grizzly bears, the JRP recommended that these «can be justified in the circumstances, as set out in Chapter 2» (see NGP Report, Volume II, Chapter 8, Environmental Assessment).

To meet the nation's rising demand for energy, reduce its economic and national security vulnerability to crude oil supply disruptions, and minimize adverse environmental effects, the Congress should consider further stimulating the development deployment of a diversified energy portfolio by focusing R&D funding on advanced energy technologies.

And if such adverse environmental effects should be proved, it is likely that carefully crafted yet inexpensive regulations could minimize if not avoid them by improving the techniques and practices of the frackers.

For one thing, one of the purposes of CEAA, set out in section 4, is «to ensure that projects... do not cause significant adverse environmental effects outside the jurisdictions in which the projects are carried out».

VICTORIA — A damning report from B.C.'s Auditor General shows that the Liberal government has failed to properly monitor major industrial projects which have the potential for significant adverse environmental effects, and is relying mostly on industry self - monitoring without government inspections...

The Panel found that, «the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,» but they did allow that a spill would involve significant adverse environmental effects.

«We're mystified as to how the State Department can acknowledge the negative effects of the Earth's dirtiest oil on our climate, but at the same time claim that the proposed pipeline will «not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects,» said Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, one of dozens of activists who were arrested in an anti-Keystone protest last month after tying himself to the White House gate.

The Governor in Council accepted the panel's recommendations that the pipeline will have significant adverse environmental effects to populations of woodland caribou and grizzly bears, but that these effects are justified in the circumstances.

The Saskatchewan Minister of Environment approved the SMPP in early 2014, concluding that any risks from the Project will be mitigated such that no significant adverse environmental effects are expected.

Thus far, no adverse environmental effects have been reported on the nine completed field trials.

Its use was curtailed in the 1960s and finally banned in the United States in 1972 because of adverse environmental effects, especially on birds and other wildlife, as well as potential human health risks.

If suitable incineration facilities are unavailable, the waste may be disposed of to landfill without risk of adverse environmental effects.

Specifically, government leadership is needed to overcome technological and market barriers to deploying advanced energy technologies that would reduce the nation's vulnerability to oil supply disruptions and the adverse environmental effects of burning fossil fuels.

The Joint Panel concludes that the project is not likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects, provided that the recommendations and mitigation measures proposed by the Joint Panel are implemented.»

It is unlikely that DOE's current level of R&D funding or the nation's current energy policies will be sufficient to deploy alternative energy sources in the next 25 years that will reverse our growing dependence on imported oil or the adverse environmental effects of using conventional fossil energy.

The nation is once again assessing how best to stimulate the deployment of advanced energy technologies in response to recent high energy prices — caused by the growing world demand for energy, wars in the Middle East, and last year's hurricanes — and concerns about the adverse environmental effects, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, of using conventional fossil energy.

The nation's current energy portfolio has raised concerns about the adverse environmental effects of energy generation — particularly greenhouse gas emissions from coal - fired and oil - fired power plants and the long - term storage of spent nuclear fuel.

The implication is that the two leading Democratic Party candidates believe that their fears of the adverse environmental effects of fracking are more important than the economic welfare of their lower income supporters.

Generally speaking, we found that coal was somewhat «undertaxed,» gasoline was about neutral, and natural gas «overtaxed» compared to their adverse environmental effects.

This effort might start with our previous findings and add the adverse environmental effects of solar and wind sources.

About 15 years ago several economists and I attempted to compare then existing taxes on various energy sources with the adverse environmental effects each of these sources cause.

So contrary to current efforts to impose «renewable energy standards» the most economically justifiable approach would be to adjust existing taxes on various energy sources to account for the adverse environmental effects that we know exist and allow the market to work its will.

The national interest is not to satisfy various interest groups but to supply energy at the lowest possible cost after fully taking into account the adverse environmental effects of each alternative.

Cap and trade, if implemented without favoratism (a big if, of course), is one way to try to take into account the adverse environmental effects of energy use on climate change.

It must implement energy price reforms, make dramatic improvements in corporate transparency and energy efficiency while ensuring proper safeguards against the adverse environmental effects of increased energy production and use.

«When it formally kicked off the project in February 1999, the EPA said the goal was «to consider developing agency policies... to minimize, to the maximum extent practicable the adverse environmental effects» of mountaintop removal.

EPA's legal brief, submitted in conjunction with several other federal agencies as part of a 2001 lawsuit, said that «valley fill,» a term used to describe the mining debris, can cause «adverse environmental effects, as it eliminates aquatic life that inhabits those stream segments.»

The NEB held these consultations were sufficient and that no significant adverse environmental effects would be caused, so it approved the project.

«The public interest test is broader and more nuanced,» says Powell, compared to the previous analysis of whether a project would result in a significant adverse environmental effect, as set out in legislation enacted in 2012 by the former Conservative government.

Most readers will know that this was Taseko's second attempt to secure federal approval for its proposed mine and that the federal review panel that conducted the second environmental assessment (EA) concluded that, like the original Prosperity project, it too was likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects (SAEEs)(for more on the panel's report, see my previous post here)...

An explicit purpose of CEAA 2012 is to «protect the components of the environment that are within the legislative authority of Parliament from significant adverse environmental effects.»

Kinder Morgan agreed that the vessel noise impacts, specifically, were a «significant adverse environmental effect», and according to them, this and the corresponding impacts on First Nations would be the only significant adverse effects of the pipeline.