Sentences with phrase «at timber company»

Cambodian activist Leng Ouch spent years working undercover, posing as a laborer at a timber company while collecting GPS and photographic evidence of illegal logging.

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I commented about the current cashflow issues of a lot of the farming companies, but I'm sure I'll be investing again in some of them — meanwhile, I get to bail out of Black Earth by making a 1 minute call to my broker, and the proceeds now allow me to contemplate a listed timber company investment instead at a huge discount...

Take a picnic down to the Mary River Parklands and enjoy a riverside feast in the company of the Maryborough Bollards, seven colourful timber posts representing a sea captain welcoming a family of immigrants landing at the Port of Maryborough in the 1860s.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

Kajir has served as chief executive officer of the Environmental Law Centre in Port Moresby and was the lead attorney in a Supreme Court case aimed at stopping foreign timber companies» large - scale, illegal deforestation practices, often accompanied by threats of harm to local landholders who dare to challenge them.

Kajir found evidence of widespread government corruption that allowed logging companies to act as a law unto themselves, ignoring the terms of the government - issued timber permits, and terrorizing the local communities — at gunpoint in some cases — into signing over their land rights.

Over at Crooked Timber, Daniel Davies demolishes the latest effort by junk science writer Steve Milloy (on diet and diabetes), and admonishes Todd Zywicki of the Volokh Conspiracy for giving uncritical credence to Milloy, who has a track record of bogus work going back at least a decade, to his work for the tobacco companies, trying to cast doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer.

The observers found that the actual exports greatly exceeded official reports — and that arms shipments were being unloaded at the ports by timber company workers.

Our commitment to using homegrown timber has kept the company at the forefront of pioneering work to further the application of this resource, which is apparent in the bespoke architecture we produce.

He also interned at a timber - related investment company in Atlanta, where he advised a private equity firm on multiple property dispositions.

Evidence was introduced at the trial that the timber company truck driver never should have been permitted to drive a tractor trailer since he had lied on his application and had received two license revocations, previous infractions that the timber company could have easily discovered with a simple background search that took only 15 minutes and cost $ 15.