Many of its files will be familiar to regular readers of the national media, and include the $ 9 - billion Sino - Forest Corp. shareholder class action claim; an application against Rogers Communications Inc. and Chatr Wireless Inc. involving a constitutional challenge to the Competition Act; and a case
concerning oil pollution in the Amazon in which the firm acted for Ecuadoran plaintiffs.
Not exact matches
In mid-August, on the day before Enck was to meet with residents
concerned that the state had not done enough to address the issue of
oil trains and industrial
pollution at public housing near the Port of Albany, the state announced it would devote hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment for the area and step up enforcement of rules regulating diesel trucks.
Aerosols from the production of heavy
oil is a growing climate and
pollution concern because new tar sands developments are on the drawing board in Venezuela, Utah and elsewhere, the study says.
Concerned over the long - term effects Elin Sørhus has investigated the short term effects of
oil pollution on haddock roe and larva, but there are indications that the long - term effects also are very serious.
concerned citizen, # 20, every energy source has external costs, such as
pollution, infrastructure requirements, carbon footprint (both construction and operation), payments to hostile nations (foreign
oil) and rent - seeking opportunities for corporations and politicians.
As for now, as deforestation continues,
pollution of the air, the land, and the waters continues, the consumption of
oil, gas, and coal is the order of the day, and the poor masses of this world are suffering from stresses of food and water scarcity, political conflict and bloody war, well, it is not easy to believe that our musicians are going to start singing any songs of true enlightenment, as
concerns both the social and natural environments of ours.
So far, the political pressure to produce domestic
oil in a hurry has trumped public
concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air
pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.
The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air
pollution worsens, and as
concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal,
oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.
• Support for energy innovation today comes from those
concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on
oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air
pollution,
oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.
The demand is coming from
concern over climate change, air
pollution and peak
oil.
Heavy metal
pollution is a growing
concern for communities located near
oil sands operations and downstream from development - causing health problems for people and wildlife.
As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air
pollution worsens, and as
concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal,
oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.
Represented Argentinian
oil and gas producer YPF relating to allegations brought by the State of New Jersey and Occidental Chemical
concerning the
pollution of the Garden State's Passaic River