Sentences with phrase «contentious areas of debate»

One of the most contentious areas of debate over the expansion of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas concerns a spike in seismic activity in unlikely areas that have begun fracking nearby.

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Cuomo himself was in Broome County on Tuesday to announce the expansion of a marketing company in the area — good economic development news for a region that was initially denied a casino license and has been debating the contentious hydrofracking issue for natural gas drilling.

Amid contentious debate surrounding the gray areas and boundaries of sexual abuse sparked by the #metoo movement, an exhibition about domestic violence at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay School of Criminal Justice lays bare the plight of individuals who have suffered direct physical abuse.

The most contentious area of scientific debate, however, revolves around the area of data and data adjustments.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».