Sentences with phrase «by logging companies»

In addition, the state receives taxes on all profits made by logging companies.

(05/14/2011) A new animation created using Google Earth offers a tour of an area of forest slated for destruction by logging companies.

SKS: Interacting with people in these situations, especially at a time when their forest was not only being ravaged by logging companies but they were also being subjected to some of the most inhumane forms of rights abuses, I felt a calling to do something.

When we think of timber from lush, tropical forests, it conjures up images of valuable old - growth trees pillaged by logging companies and illegal...

For example, reduced - impact logging (RIL) techniques would increase carbon storage over traditional logging, but have not been widely adopted by logging companies, even when they lead to cost savings (Holmes et al., 2002).

A computer illustration created by the wildlife activist group WWF - Indonesia using Google Earth provides a tour of Sumatran rain forest areas at risk of destruction by logging companies and palm oil producers.

New research shows rainforests on Borneo have been ravaged by logging companies and palm oil plantations

PUPs were ruled illegal by the Liberian government in December 2012, whose investigation into their use reported widespread fraud and corruption by logging companies and Liberian officials.

Her parents were tree - planters, hired by logging companies to repopulate the large swaths of land left naked by clear cutting forestry operations...

The documentary Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story begins in northern Cambodia with David Casselman in a helicopter surveying and commenting on the appalling deforestation of seventy - five percent of the Cambodian jungle by logging companies.

What seems like a miracle is, however, threatened by her father - in - law's decision to allow the mountain to be clear - felled by a logging company.

The public trust doctrine has not been widely discussed in Canadian case law with the only significant mention being by the Supreme Court of Canada in British Columbia v. Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 2004 SCC 38 at para. 74 where Binnie J. acknowledged that «The notion that there are public rights in the environment that reside in the Crown has deep roots in the common law» (however, the majority decision ultimately took a conservative approach to not allow the Crown to succeed in a general claim for damages for «environmental loss» [caused by a negligently undetected controlled burn of slashing and other waste by a logging company] in the absence of a statutory scheme permitting such a claim).

Not exact matches

In Japan, a Tokyo governor recently ordered municipal employees to finish their work by 8:00 p.m., after a 25 - year - old woman employed by Dentsu, an advertising company, jumped to her death after logging more than 105 overtime hours in one month.

Last month, LinkedIn LKND released Lookup, a mobile app that lets a company's employees find coworkers by name, title, and skills by logging in with their work email address.

However, over the weekend it was also hit by fresh outrage over the fact that — as people discovered when they downloaded their Facebook data — the company was for years quietly harvesting users» call logs on Android phones.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Reveal also provided Tesla's internal descriptions of the injuries, along with the company's case - by - case response, to Doug Parker, executive director of Worksafe, an Oakland - based organization that previously analyzed Tesla's official injury logs.

Some researchers argue that it is impossible to determine when a contractor is truly working for a company during the times when the worker is waiting to pick up a ride, because the driver could be using two applications at once or attending to personal business.100 However, as noted in a 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute, both Uber and Lyft already have guaranteed pay plans that they use in some markets during certain hours that pay workers guaranteed minimum earnings per hour based on their entire time logged into the system, including waiting times.101

But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long way: Google's vehicles had logged more than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto industry.

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Terror was created in the raids for heads and women in Africa, Assam and Iryan Jaya, the raids for pillage by Vikings, Vandals and Visigoths, and the raids for land by nearly every people from the time of Genghis Khan to the settling of the American frontier to the development of logging companies in contemporary Brazil.

Owned and operated by Lynetta Usher Griner and Ken Griner, the logging and cattle company has been operating in Florida in one shape or form since the 1900s.

NORPRA has intercepted a copy of a document signed by the Chief Executive of Forestry Commission granting approval to over 20 companies to engage in logging rosewood in northern Ghana and Brong Ahafo region.

The companies by the guidelines are to among others maximize revenue and logs with valid permit shall be sold at GHC120.00, while confiscated logs shall be sold at GHC200.00.

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

The subpoena, excerpts of which were obtained by The Post, sought «phone logs, visitor logs, calendar entries between January 2012 and present that show meetings with any» entities on a list of 26 individuals and companies.

The bill would more than double the amount of forest available for logging by non-state companies.

And in Thailand, a similar database provided by an American company is used to keep tabs on citizens and log evidence of antigovernment behaviour.

Later, as an engineer for a Silicon Valley software company, he defended his dog, Paco, against a neighbor's noise complaints by logging barks on a spreadsheet (the numbers vindicated Paco, showing he was not the source of the public disturbance).

Johnson's research is based on price logs from over 60 different markets collected by Eric Hunsader of Nanex, a Chicago - based company that sells streaming market data.

«It was widely opposed by conservationists, sportsmen, business and even some timber companies for dispensing with environmental laws and public involvement in order to ramp up unsustainable logging levels,» he said.

30: W3LL People: A Birchbox favourite, W3LL People is a natural makeup brand that was launched by a conscientious trio: NARS veteran and self - professed «makeup guru» Shirley Pinkson; James Walker, the «treehugger» who logged hours with a Fortune 500 company; and eco-conscious «skin doctor» Renee Snyder, M.D.

New data released by the company's UK site, which analysed the logins of more than 800,000 users has identified 2 pm on a Tuesday as the ideal time for singles to look for love, given that this is the time most adults log on.

Industry folks call it «online dating aggregation,» but James Nord, founder of one such company, called Rubixx, compares its service to those offered by travel companies CheapFlights.com or Kayak where users log on, search for flights, are fed potential options from various providers and click through to the airline's site to purchase.

Whether it is the image of Abraham Lincoln studying by log cabin candlelight or George Washington dutifully copying the Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation into his schoolboy notebooks, presidential schooling has long been a national fascination (see Figure 1).

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The company also tries to display its green credentials by noting that the interior trim wood comes from sunken logs and fire - damaged trees, rather than live timber.

Online bookings can be done by logging into the company's official website www.jeep-india.com.

Service - savvy companies like Barnes and Noble have even offered their customers extra incentives to come suck up the wifi; in B&N's case, the move was a brilliant strategy to bring its NOOK customers into the physical B&N locations by offering them coupons and discounts that were available only after logging on to the in - store wifi, as well as making it a policy that NOOK users could read the full length of any book carried in the B&N digital catalog while they were logged on in the store.

But surely the credit card company logs such disputes by merchant, and a merchant that accumulates an extraordinary number of small overcharges, disputed by customers, may end up in seriously hot water.

On - site logins allow both customers and referrals access their dashboards by logging in through a domain name other than TurboDispute.com customized with your own company logo and contact information that match your website so that your customers will be unaware that you are using TurboDispute software.

Basically any credit given by a company can potentially be searched and logged against your credit profile.

There is also a way to make updates and changes to a policy holder's account by simply logging in to the Vantis Life Insurance Company website.

As roads were limited to those built by individual logging companies, all transportation was by ship or float plane.

Valid loss - of - use charges assessed by the rental company while the damaged vehicle is being repaired and is not available for use, as substantiated in the company's fleet utilization log

By logging in with a Square Enix account you will be able to view details on your in game character as well as your friends list, company and linkshell.

Logging in the US accounts for about 7 % of our CO2 emissions, a fact that is hidden and lied about by the timber companies (they disguise this in our net sequestration figure).

It's a complicated mess, involving varied accounts involving shots fired by a military police officer who also died in the incident and a logging company security worker.

The logging industry, influenced by companies like Weyerhaeuser and Kimberly - Clark, is huge, and the process to get that paper bag to the grocery store is long, sordid and exacts a heavy toll on the planet.