Sentences with phrase «by land mines»

Eradicate death and disability caused by land mines and abandoned munitions and fight other forms of conflicts and improve post-conflict situations.

Several times in recent months TV cameras have captured horrific images of children maimed by land mines.

NORTH GREENBUSH — A love story between Kaylee Dedrick and fellow Occupy Wall Street protester Robert Grodt ended in tragedy when Grodt was killed July 6 by a land mine in Syria where he volunteered as a medic for a Kurdish militia.

If anything, he's an unimaginative journeyman who can be far too heavy - handed (e.g. a scene in his last picture Machine Gun Preacher where a small child gets killed by a land mine and Forster felt the need to play up this moment with a soaring bit of score).

However, disaster strikes soon after their arrival in Southeast Asia, when the director (Steve Coogan) is blown to bits by a land mine.

Not exact matches

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

However, recognising the potential for a mining revival, Perth mining entrepreneur Nik Zuks and Kalia Ltd Managing Director Terry Larkan have been assisting local land owners with the finer nuances of the new Bougainville Mining Act brought to bear by the new autonomous President of Bougainville, John mining revival, Perth mining entrepreneur Nik Zuks and Kalia Ltd Managing Director Terry Larkan have been assisting local land owners with the finer nuances of the new Bougainville Mining Act brought to bear by the new autonomous President of Bougainville, John mining entrepreneur Nik Zuks and Kalia Ltd Managing Director Terry Larkan have been assisting local land owners with the finer nuances of the new Bougainville Mining Act brought to bear by the new autonomous President of Bougainville, John Mining Act brought to bear by the new autonomous President of Bougainville, John Momis.

Named after the former US senator John Warner — but nicknamed the «Sledgehammer of Freedom» by the crew — the Warner can perform a variety of missions for the US Navy, including surveillance, reconnaissance, and search and rescue, as well as launch land - attack missiles, torpedoes, and mines.

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

Furthermore, he said that authorities should work to eventually eliminate cryptocurrency mining in China by instrumentalizing regulations related to electricity prices, land use, taxation, and environmental stewardship toward that end.

President Trump has vowed to help bring back the industry by rolling back environmental regulations, offering tax breaks to invest in infrastructure and ending a moratorium on mining on federal land enforced by President Obama.

Suncor is committed to ultimately returning all lands disturbed by our oil sands mining and in situ operations to a self - sustaining boreal forest ecosystem.

By: Mia Breytenbach 7th July 2016 ASX - listed lithium developer Altura Mining has agreed to the terms of a native title agreement (NTA) with the Njamal People, the traditional owners of the land at Altura's 100 % - owned Pilgangoora lithium project, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

By: Dylan Slater 26th August 2016 The remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) industry is growing at a staggering rate and such systems are increasingly being taken up by mining companies as a tool to manage their assets, operations and lanBy: Dylan Slater 26th August 2016 The remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) industry is growing at a staggering rate and such systems are increasingly being taken up by mining companies as a tool to manage their assets, operations and lanby mining companies as a tool to manage their assets, operations and land.

Before Wounded Knee, in a military action stirred by gold mining on tribal land, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and 200 U.S. troops were killed in 1876 by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn, in what is now present day Montana, about 400 miles west of the Standing Rock battle.

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd March 2018 Amid a range of land contamination issues in South Africa, mining houses are increasingly adapting their operations to be more holistic to curb environmental risks and create meaningful value for local stakeholders while achieving their objectives.

Social media became a land mine of twisted morals, ignorant comments and hate speech by people I know.

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

Almost 85 percent of land area of the City of Sipalay and Municipality of Hinobaan were covered by mining applications,» added Cordova.

The four were picked up in one of the mines in Obuasi busy engaging in galamsey, an act that was in violation of Ghana's mining laws and in apparent disobedience of an ultimatum given by the Lands Minister for all illegal mining activities to cease.

A campaign against illegal mining by the current NPP government is gaining traction amid fears the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, who is fronting the anti-illegal mining crusade, will lose steam because of the influential people involved in the practice.

The Romanian Parliament, also dominated by USL, is currently debating the modification of the 2003 Mining Law and considering amendments which would facilitate important erosion of citizens» rights, particularly by allowing foreign companies to expropriate the lands and houses of Romanian citizens on behalf of the Romanian government.

This law would also facilitate the approval of other mining projects, including dangerous cyanide - based ones, like the RMGC - led one, by depriving citizens of their right to protest by remaining on their lands.

An Accra High Court presided by Justice Ackah Boafo has in a judicial review quashed the decision by the lands and natural resources ministry to revoke the mining license of Exton Cubic Group Limited, owned by Ibrahim Mahama.

Kennecott Utah Copper has also spent US$ 400m in reclaiming and restoring land affected by mining operations in the past.

Exton Cubic Limited last year went to court challenging the revocation of their mining lease by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister.

The Accra High Court has quashed the decision by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, to revoke the mining exploration leases granted Exton Cubic.

An Accra High Court in February quashed a decision by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu to revoke the mining leases of Exton Cubic.

«After going through all the laid down procedures required by law, Exton Cubic Group Limited was granted a mining lease for the Nyinahin Bauxite Deposit by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources on the 29thof December 2016.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

Exton Cubic wins gov» t for revocation of licence An Accra High Court presided by Justice Ackah - Boafo has ruled against the decision by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Amewu, over the revocation of the mining permits of the company.

The Legal team for Exton Cubic Limited has described the verdict by the Accra Circuit Court overturning Lands Minister Peter Amewu's decision to revoke the company's mining license as satisfactory.

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, has said that government intends to sustain its fight against illegal mining by using an aggressive approach where necessary, to ensure that the culprits do not return to the site when the reclamation program begins.

Mr John Peter Amewu, the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has urged illegal miners to take advantage of the numerous opportunities offered by the government under the Multilateral Mining Integrated Project (MMIP) to make a living.

A High Court in Accra has set February 8, 2018, to give a ruling on an injunction application filed by Exton Cubic Limited, challenging the revocation of their mining lease by the Lands and Natural Resources Minister.

The firm is said to have mined 500 acres of land instead of 75 acres originally permitted them by the Minerals Commission at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region.

The firm has mined 500 acres of land instead of 75 acres originally permitted by the Minerals Commission.

The environmental group Protect the Adirondacks filed an ethics complaint regarding what it contends was «illegal advocacy and lobbying» by the state DC in support of a 2013 constitutional amendment that cleared the way for a land - swap deal between New York and an Essex County mining operation.

The four, who are managers of Geo Professional Services, were said to have mined about 500 acres of land instead of 75 acres originally given them by the Lands Commission at Tontokrom in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region.

Their arrest was ordered by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, during his tour of mining sites in the region.

Mr. Fuseini made the remark on the back of a hint by the current Minister of Lands and Forestry, Mr. John Peter Amewu, to deploy similar technology in combating illegal mining in Ghana.

He explained that the collaborators were companies who had their own money, and were doing something similar to what the Ministry was doing, whilst the PPP were organisations with their own funding, but wanted government to meet them half way by allowing them to mine and use the money to reclaim the land.

«These significant alterations are likely to lead to saltier and more perennial streamflows throughout Appalachia, where at least 7 percent of the land has already been disturbed by mountaintop - removal mining,» says Nippgen, who notes that mountaintop removal is not part of Wyoming's coal industry.

This innovative land mine detector can find explosives that are not encased in metal by detecting the hydrogen atoms that comprise the devious war devices.

Because so many mines in recent years are made from plastics to avoid location by metal detectors, based on United Nations research it will take 1,100 years to clear the world's existing inventory of 110 million land mines buried in 70 countries.

A 17 - year - old kid who had stepped on a land mine in Kosovo had been treated by an orthopedic surgeon in the chief referral hospital in Pristina.

An Abandoned Copper Mine Land contaminated by runoff from industrial waste may soon be reclaimed by an unusual army of eco-warriors: metal - eating earthworms.

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

By the time Porter published the first issue of Scientific American magazine on Thursday, August 28, 1845, steam engines were driving the nation's burgeoning factories, mines and mills, and steam - powered railroads were transporting goods and people across land at breathtaking speeds.

And in Addison, W. Va., land scarred by an old mine and abandoned railroads will be scoured and transformed into a museum and tourism center.