Sentences with phrase «campaigned against the project»

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

The decision follows a high - profile campaign against the project that included advertisements on New York buses showing images of the burning Twin Towers, an iconic landmark razed when al - Qaida terrorists flew packed passenger planes into them in 2001.

But the announcement is a huge win for environmentalists, and the many activists who campaigned against the project.

Not exact matches

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

In a legal filing on Monday, ETP asked a judge to grant the permit, saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in its decision, responded to «political pressure and an escalating campaign of violence and disorder waged by protesters» against the project.

The group spearheading a campaign against Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is a project of a low - profile progressive dark money organization with large assets.

After MAT (a campaign that will continue with the shift to the WTO where there is a project to coöpt, in the framework of the American lobbying system, a part of the opponents) concentration could be focussed on the tax on capital (Tobin tax etc.), the struggle against the plans of the IMF, the struggle against Third World debt.

The campaign against food waste is part of Tearfund's Renew Our World project which aims to tackle climate change.

Bo's campaigns against corruption also allegedly seized the assets of private entrepreneurs, in turn funneling these funds into state projects and welfare programs, effectively re-asserting state control over wealth.

That project mainly benefits Long Island as well (capacity for more service) but there is a fierce NIMBY campaign against it in western Nassau County (not his district but he has been the leader of the L.I. Senate delegation).

Lawyers representing six of the defendants have spent the past several weeks in a new letter - writing campaign to a federal judge seeking dismissal of the bid - rigging corruption charges leveled against individuals involved in several major upstate economic development programs, including the mega-construction project at Tesla's Riverbend site in South Buffalo.

In her local borough of Camden, Berry has also campaigned against the Iraq war, genetically modified foods and air quality problems, and supported local services threatened by redevelopment projects.

East Side members also voted Sunday to team up with Pledge 2 Protect, a coalition of community groups that recently launched a campaign against the East 91st Street project — and has vowed to keep any pro-MTS politician out of office.

If he faces off against a credible centrist candidate running a smart campaign, enough members might be persuaded to give up on the Corbyn project - especially if he faces a woman.

Miriam Colque, community and human rights advocate, Latin American Community Association (Latca) Luna Playback London Imagen Latina Justice 4 Cleaners (Soas) Carlos Cruz Garcia, United Migrants Education Project Colombian Solidarity Campaign Tres Coastas Campaign Unity Centre Right to Remain Bob Hughes, No One Is Illegal Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice Justice for Domestic Workers Awqapuma Colque and Nemequene Tundama, Tawantinsuyu Nation Zita Holbourne, national co-chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac)

The issuance will likely further inflame opponents of the project - including the Oneida Indian Nation - who have mounted multiple legal fights and public relations campaigns against Wilmot's plans to put a casino 76 miles west of Turning Stone Casino.

«When you have Conservative councillors bringing a case against Conservative ministers in a Conservative - led government, you know that we are very confident that there are huge flaws in the HS2 project,» said StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Ruskin.

While The Buffalo News last month reported that Casey has mentioned the mayor in depositions filed in a civil case against the city, those same sources say they do not expect the litigation brought by NRP Properties of Cleveland — which alleges that Brown killed a planned housing development when part of the project was not awarded to a political ally — will affect his campaign.

Youths under the El - Rufai Campaign Organization Group and Continuity Project 2019, Tuesday, in Kaduna stormed the State House of Assembly, protesting against the APC led government's...

Uber's aggressive campaign against Mr. de Blasio included television ads and a special tab in its app showing projected wait times for cars if a cap was introduced.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

More substantively, Bawumia has been the NPP campaign's leading voice on the economy, economic policy, and public finance and has also led the charge against the project - related corruption and cronyism in the Mahama administration.

Knowing who and where people are talking about an advertising campaign on social networks, warning of a forest problem by geolocation data; developing a map of air quality through a collaborative application; improving European territorial cohesion through the comparison of data or developing a sound map playing a battle against noise are just some of the projects developed by this group at the UJI thanks to geolocation technology.

Our ExxonSecrets project and database now shows that has spent nearly $ 31 million since 1998 funding think tanks and campaigns against the climate science consensus and climate policy progress.

Status Report: Crownpoint Uranium Project The campaign of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM), Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC), and the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) to stop construction and operation of the Crownpoint Uranium Solution Mining Project (CUP).

WASHINGTON — The organizers of Project Literacy U.S., or PLUS — a media - sponsored campaign against adult illiteracy — last week announced a new project to promote literacy among young Project Literacy U.S., or PLUS — a media - sponsored campaign against adult illiteracy — last week announced a new project to promote literacy among young project to promote literacy among young people.

The campaign's message appears to run against the current, its leaders acknowledge, because many school districts are responding to recession - driven budget pressures by postponing the very types of capital - improvement projects the coalition is calling for.

These historical subjects include the cultural campaigns for women's suffrage and against lynching in America, women as subjects and makers of Soviet propaganda, Tina Modotti's socialist photography in Mexico, and the government - sponsored Living Newspaper productions of the Federal Theatre Project.

Fenn is coordinator of World Wildlife Fund's campaign against a proposed mining project near Fort Dauphin, Madagascar.

It is noteworthy that in the recent campaign of libels against him there has not been, as far as I know, a single suggestion that any particular result or conclusion was reached in part or in whole because either that particular research project or his scientific work in general was funded by fossil - fuel interests.

In 2004 it was revealed that the Australian government was willing to offer a subsidy to Southern Pacific Petroleum on the condition that the oil company would take legal action against Greenpeace, which had campaigned against the Stuart Oil Shale Project.

Vanessa Green, Campaign Director for DivestInvest Individual said, «We are thrilled to have some of the nation's leading social change organizations join us in taking a stand against banks that are financially backing destructive fossil fuel projects.

Partnering with campaign groups in Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Peru, the project measures access to information against a comprehensive set of indicators, and draws lessons for improvements on a national level.

While environmentalists protest the plan, labor groups who backed Inslee's campaign are in favor of the project, pitting the two Democratic constituencies against each other.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) is the leading global charity dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins, defending them against the many threats they face through campaigns, lobbying, advising governments, conservation projects, field research and rescue.

In a victory for Berta Cáceres» campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.

We monitor the effects of this installation, gather evidence on wind power generally and more recently campaign against plans for a further 28 turbines up to 145 - metres high — the Brechfa Forest West project.

The notion that CO2 is such a driver of climate that the projected growth in ambient levels carries the threat of probable catastrophe is so feeble, so lacking in observational and, indeed, theoretical support that we need other ways to understand the motivations of those who campaign so intemperately against this vital chemical.

Prior to joining the ILRC, Lena was a Soros Justice Fellow at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, where she supported local campaigns against ICE detainers, provided training and education on the detention and deportation system, and litigated constitutional rights cases related to ICE enforcement.

Project Web Analytics Consulting Customer Consumer Goods Company Period Sep ’08 to Feb ’09 Description • Involved in Design and Execution of Web Analytics strategy to track the performance across various brands of Client • Set up KPIs to judge the performance of various online marketing campaigns • Measured success of Website against the competitors • Provided website audit reports using Maxamine and Google Webmaster Central tools • Provided consulting on web analytics tracking code implementation process.