Sentences with phrase «by resource extraction»

Tracking Rep. John Faso in the Age of Trump from fivethirtyeight.com Disapprove Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers Rule — Vote Passed (235 - 187, 10 Not Voting) The measure would disapprove of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule issued in July 2016 that requires resource extraction issuers (companies that extract oil, natural gas or -LSB-...]

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

Not exact matches

As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

The study by Miller and her colleagues is believed to be the first head - to - head comparison of coal and shale gas from the resource extraction phase through electricity generation.

Protected from development or resource extraction by the International Antarctic Treaty, the Dry Valleys — including Upper Beacon Valley, shown here — are considered one of the most pristine landscapes on the planet.

No nation is likely to start investing in expensive resource exploration and extraction if it could be evicted by a neighboring country's extended seabed claim under UNCLOS, so the outer shelves will not see development for another 30 years or so, Baker points out.

Use the attached resources and guiding questions to introduce students to the project Fatal Extraction by journalist - grantees Will Fitzgibbon and Eleanor Bell.

The majority of students in Chicago, Newark, N.J., Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and other cities where public school districts have been devastated by the cycle of resource extraction cited by Moody's, continue to attend traditional public schools.

In Northeastern Ontario, Timmins City is an economy driven by extraction of natural resources.

These sites have included the areas around former US military bases, the extraction of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the war - torn regions of the southern Philippines.

These sites have included the areas around the former US military bases, the extraction of natural resources by multinational corporations, and the war - torn regions of the southern Philippines.

Yep, I support ANWR drilling for the same reason Peter Maass does: to force people to confront the real costs of resource extraction by having it done in their back yard.

So whether we are talking about the extraction of natural resources from the environment, or the discharge of waste into the environment, they both follow from the same underlying cause; these activities are all directed by the underlying landscape of incentives.

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

The challenges for resource extraction in the Arctic are illustrated by this WaPo article Shell thwarted in plans to drill for Arctic oil this year.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

As the Ecological Footprint reflects the demand for productive area to make resources and absorb wastes, recycling can lower the Ecological Footprint by offsetting the extraction of virgin products, and reducing the area necessary for absorbing wastes.

These projects heal landscapes damaged by unsustainable resource extraction, while providing new economic opportunities to forest - based communities.

Since a sustainable future based on the continued extraction of coal, oil and gas in the «business - as - usual mode» will not be possible because of both resource depletion and environmental damages (as caused, e.g., by dangerous sea level rise) we urge our societies to -LSB-...] Reduce the concentrations of warming air pollutants (dark soot, methane, lower atmosphere ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons) by as much as 50 % [and] cut the climate forcers that have short atmospheric lifetimes.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

Such abrupt state changes are well - documented for ecosystems at many scales, and can be triggered by a variety of forcing factors — including pollution, resource extraction, deforestation, and other land use changes — with climate change being only one of them (Scheffer et al., 2009; Lenton et al., 2008; Barnosky et al., 2012).

It's about technology and manufacturing making the extraction of Fossil Fuels economically not viable, and thereby reducing, perhaps to zero, the value of those FF resources «owned» or «leased» by existing powerful actors.

By reclaiming some of the battery materials (zinc, manganese and steel, for instance), fewer virgin materials are needed, which can offset part of the environmental impact of resource extraction.

This increase was made possible by a dramatic expansion in the scale of resource extraction, which, by providing a very large increase in the use of inputs, greatly increased production, consumption, throughput, and waste.

I suspect you could have oil extraction driven (in part or whole) by windfarm / hydro / solar / some other renewable resource where the raw EROEI appeared uneconomical - but you're not comparing like with like.

«Resolution of Disputes involving the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Extraction of Natural Resources by Foreign Investors» (2015) 108 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 5

The band, which is supported by aboriginal chiefs in B.C. and Ontario, is seeking Federal Court judicial review of the Canada - China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act, arguing extraction of resources by foreign interests could affect aboriginal rights.

Indigenous control over development outcomes and natural resources has been upheld by United Nations committees in relation to resource and timber extraction.

The challenge is... to effectively engage... and to transform the potential wealth that participation in resource extraction may bring, into a sustainable social and economic future for those communities most impacted by the resources boom.