Sentences with phrase «building airstrips»

Dozens of exploration companies flooded to the area about five or six years ago, staking claims, setting up camps, even building airstrips without informing First Nations who consider the vast land theirs.

Earlier this year, India signed a 20 - year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy.

The military filled in wetlands to build an airstrip in the 1940s.

The Prinoths are mostly used for building the airstrip at the beginning of the season, and for hauling freight from the offloading site at the coast to the station.

Not exact matches

The Roosevelt Field shopping complex was built 60 years ago, in Garden City, N.Y., on the former Long Island airstrip where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic transatlantic flight.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $ 30 million dollar airstrip that will test unmanned aircraft or drones will be built in central New York.

Signy's research programme in terrestrial biology will continue, but the marine work is being moved to Rothera Station, on Adelaide Island, where a # 4.5 million building programme is under way, including accommodation for 40 people and a rock airstrip.

Fleeing dad Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) and family zipping along the tarmac of a rapidly disintegrating airstrip is an early adrenaline rush after a slow, if engrossing, build up.

A private airstrip built adjacent to the hotel was the main conduit for visitors, who were flown in from Belize City in a four seater Cessna 182.

Victoria House was built, and the airstrip began getting a little more business.

Building is located in a clean, safe and high traffic area within close proximity to schools, shops, services and other business establishments, less than five minutes away from the Belize City Municipal Airstrip and St. John's College.

This was the site for Oliver North's secret airstrip that was built to supply the contras.

The «airport» consists of an open sided building with a few chairs, a local style vending machine and two employees, all sitting right on the edge of the airstrip.

So the strategy is to move slowly on the development, building a railway with money from the Commonwealth government and, now, an airstrip paid for by the people of Townsville.

Eco-tourism, cultural tourism, training, airstrips and environment and wildlife management are examples of enterprises that could help to build sustainable economic and social development that are not dependent on resource development.

Strategies: On site training for CY people in the housing and construction industry; all building contractors to employ Indigenous people for the purpose of skills development; extend telecommunications and broadcasting capacity; maintain regional network of airstrips; support the sealing of roads; pursue home ownership.