Sentences with phrase «build sea walls»

The city asked the court to require the companies to abate the nuisance by funding a climate adaptation program to build sea walls and other infrastructure necessary to protect public and private property from sea level rise and other climate impacts.»

Engineers ship air conditioners or seek contracts to build sea walls round coastal cities.

Building sea walls can have mixed results.

Building sea walls and moving ports and cities on a global scale will do the same this century, even as the sea literally swallows trillions of dollars of investment in existing infrastructure.

The simple fact is regardless of any sea level rise, people tend to build house too near the ocean - or aren't designing it in way that makes it safe - building a sea wall.

And many adaptation projects like building sea walls are essential to the continued existence of climate vulnerable countries, but don't necessarily turn a profit.

Had New York and New Jersey focused resources on building sea walls and adding storm doors to the subway system and making simple fixes like porous pavements, Hurricane Sandy would have caused much less damage.

In May, for example, Politico reported that the billionaire's application for permission to erect coastal protection at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare, explicitly cited the consequences of global warming as the main justification for building the sea wall.

In May, a story in Politico revealed how Trump is trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from «global warming and its effects.»

Redick, who is a member of Virginia's Secure Commonwealth Commission, said the city is considering building a sea wall, but the price tag is more than $ 1 billion.

In the short term, he said cities are raising roads, fortifying sewer and water systems, building sea walls and reinforcing dikes.

Not exact matches

Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal reported in June that Intrawest had approached Vladimir Potanin, a nickel - mining magnate building the ski resort in Sochi, in the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea, that will host the 2014 Olympics.

Relying on memories of his friend Fly's work as a law - copyist in 1840, and of the office at 10 Wall Street where he visited his brother Allan after returning from sea in 1844, Melville sets his story in a modern, nineteenth - century office building.

Not only are infrastructural systems, such as sea walls and well - build structures, expensive, but so are food and medicine when prices rise as supply wanes.

In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water.

«You're going to have to make big hard decisions like, «I'm going to do what they did in the capital of the Maldives,» which was make a huge sea wall and build huge desalination facilities.

«[People] have even started using the stones from the ancient ruins on Lelu Island to build [sea] walls.

«In 1971 we built the first sea wall... from coral reef rocks and rocks from the hill.

Fifteen years later we had to build a new sea wall, because the water kept on rising... Today, the sea comes right up to the houses and we have a flood every year.

At Medmerry in West Sussex, the Environment Agency has built an inland sea wall and allowed everything on the ocean side to become a wetland.

These generators were inundated with water 45 minutes later when the 15 - metre tsunami swept over the sea wall, which had been built to withstand a maximum wave height of only 5.7 metres.

Against the Sea «Twice during the thirteen years since it was built has the great concrete wall along the waterfront of Galveston withstood the furious onslaughts of a raging sea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectSea «Twice during the thirteen years since it was built has the great concrete wall along the waterfront of Galveston withstood the furious onslaughts of a raging sea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectsea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectly.

«We favour recharging beaches rather than building new sea walls,» he says.

James Titus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Sea Level Rise Project, says communities will have two choices: build walls or get out of the way.

And although that region was one of Japan's best - prepared for tsunamis, the high sea walls along much of the coast were built to stop waves far smaller than the 13 -15-metre-tall giants that battered the coastline, causing most of the damage and triggering a nuclear crisis.

For the residents of Towyn, a town on the North Wales coast, the engineers arrived too late to repair their sea wall, which was built 100 years ago to protect the coastal railway line.

A few years ago, at Sand Bay outside Weston - super-Mare in Avon, engineers built a new beach as an alternative to raising the sea wall.

Rising sea level could suddenly begin to breach sea walls, for example, and thawing permafrost could cause the sudden collapse of buildings, roads, or pipelines.

The Tepco hiring estimate does not include the manpower required for the government's new $ 330 million plan to build a massive ice wall around the plant to keep radiated water from leaking into the sea.

Though the engineering challenges are substantial, the principle is simple: Build a dike to wall off the sea, pump out the water to drain the land behind it, let the soil settle, and bBuild a dike to wall off the sea, pump out the water to drain the land behind it, let the soil settle, and buildbuild.

It largely limits sea walls to homes built before 1977, when the measure took effect.

In the late 1980s, 30 - meter - thick sea walls were built to stop erosion and protect oil rigs on land.

Cap Rocat was so ingeniously built into the cliffs that despite its huge walls and ramparts, the building can not be seen from the mainland or the sea.

These snails actually live on the backside of the island, but land fill material from there has been used to build up the beach behind sea walls, so some empty shells can be found in front of some of the beach front buildings.

It is used extensively to build docks, «muelle», piers, sea walls and as rollers for putting boats in or out of the water.

With only three walls to every room it may be conceived that people can see into your room however - Ladera was built perched on the top rim of a ridge 1,000 feet above sea level, overlooking the Caribbean.

The ground - floor room we viewed looked to a tiny leafy courtyard (well a wall with a few young plants), and the upper floor rooms enjoy a balcony, too narrow for a chair, but as this is Canggu, fine for viewing the nearby building sites (with sea glimpses).

Hidden behind a wall that shields villa guests from prying eyes without taking away from the sea views, the double - storey Villa LeGa is built around a central 12 - metre swimming pool, complete with outdoors shower and various water features, which takes up most of the garden space...

On the subject a similar situation is happening at Canggu since the building of the new sea retaining walls or pathway to no where.

You're drawn in by cracked mortar and cats reclining on walls, before the camera pulls back to reveal gently twinkling seas, lazy clouds, and cities filled with tumbling, enticing buildings — it's a world that comes alive through scale and detail.

The next day, I head East for a meeting at the hip and happening Ace hotel in Shoreditch and afterwards popped into Hales Gallery in the Tea Building, where there is a fantastic and rather intimate show of Hew Locke's work entitled «Beyond the Sea Wall».

They've had ample time to build sea - walls, etc, and as the believers running Nalens did, they did absolutely nothing.

But even faced with this, modelling and choosing the type of adaptation itself is uncertain, whether this involves «hard» barriers, such as sea - walls, «soft» protection including sand nourishment, accommodating sea - level rise by raising buildings, or even deliberately retreating from the sea.

For the moment, it relies on sea walls, built with money from Japan, to protect its one - square - mile capital, Malé, which constitutes the world's most densely populated island.

Note also that crude sea walls were built in the 1400s and again through the 1800s — clearly there was at least some issue with the location long ago.

On the Caribbean Sea, Colombian firm Plan B Architects has produced a new kind of Passivhaus — a bioclimatic building with a roof, but no walls.

This is gonna end up ten times worse then when the Sierra Club sued to block the building of an interlocking Sea Wall off the coast of Louisiana that would've saved New Orleans during Katrina.

Malé, the crowded one - square - mile capital, is ringed by sea walls, built with assistance from Japan.

Sea walls have been built ever since humans were confronted with these natural events.

-- building sea - walls, dikes and rebuilding low - lying infrastructure (mostly built with $ 30 oil) would seem more expensive in 2050 - 2100, when oil will surely be >> $ 200 / bbl.