Sentences with phrase «damage to infrastructure in»

Permafrost thawing is causing extensive damage to infrastructure in our nation's largest state.4

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The floods in Pakistan caused huge economic damage and damage to infrastructure.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Estimates also include losses to public infrastructure like roads and bridges, crop damage, and reductions in work hours.

The extent of the draws, and subsequently the spike in gasoline prices, will depend on the level of damage to the refineries and to surrounding infrastructure.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

But the total damage is expected to be much greater than just the insured losses, as many people in the area didn't have flood insurance, and there has been substantial damage to roads, bridges and other public infrastructure.

Water management expert Kevin Mercer of RainGrid says the efficiency of municipalities to manage the mounting impacts on flood management infrastructure will be revealed in public and private property damage, insurability and economic recovery.

Any breach of the Trust's infrastructure could result in damage to the Trust's reputation and reduce demand for the Shares, resulting in a reduction in the price of the Shares.

As efforts continue at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant to fully fix the infrastructure damaged in the earthquake and tsunami, workers have discovered seawater with a high radioactivity.

While we found negligible in - transit physical damage to the product in the case study, this does not imply that existing road infrastructure is not an issue in Fiji, or that post-harvest quality is not adversely influenced by in - transit conditions.

Smith was engaging, irascible, and emotional, but while he didn't burn bridges in recruiting, he seemed to struggle to prevent infrastructure damage.

He said that he had compiled a list of damaged infrastructure, including schools and bridges and handed it to the leaders of the G7 and the United States, adding that «I didn't ask for a Kobo (in cash).

Many - not all - believe aid provided earlier can sometimes prevent larger and longer term damage to a national economy by preventing long term unemployment and loss of job skills and prevent a lack of investment in infrastructure, health, and education.

The program includes $ 1 million for purchasing and removing 13 structures damaged by flooding, $ 900,000 to implement infrastructure programs that can hold and slow flood waters and $ 182,000 to create a design for flood plain restoration in the area was impacted.

And to do that we need to do three things: get the country's spending in check with firm financial controls, raise money for targeted investment in much needed infrastructure; and see us diversify the economy from a damaging dependence on oil.»

But Cuomo, in formally announcing his veto, said al - Qaida has threatened to target such facilities and superstorm Sandy was powerful enough to damage infrastructure built to survive 100 - year storms.

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, appearing in Keene, Essex County, yesterday to survey damage to the North Country, announced he would suspend the permitting prcoess required by the Adirondack Park Agency and Department of Environmental Conservation so that rural areas could make emergency repairs to bridges, roads and other infrastructure damaged by Irene.

Asked to respond to Cuomo's threats, a Con Ed spokesperson said the company's focus is on restoring damaged infrastructure and getting every customer back in service.

While we need the infrastructure upgrades, some residents who live next door to these projects say their property is being damaged in the process.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday also said he had deployed the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to assess flood damage to properties and public infrastructure in Hoosick Falls.

«Everything from our banks to our critical infrastructure are at risk for damaging cyber-attacks like never before, and we must step up our counter-hacking game ASAP to deal with threats from places like Iran and would be terrorists,» Schumer said in a statement.

The 2013 attack on the Bowman Dam in Rye Brook did not cause any lasting damage, but served as another wakeup call to state and federal security agencies about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to cyberattack.

That destroyed public infrastructure and caused tens of millions of dollars in damages that these counties are still struggling to address.

Neutrino and dark matter experiments in a former iron mine in Minnesota appear to have escaped serious harm from a fire, but damage to laboratory infrastructure means it will take at least a few more weeks to get them running again.

The findings, reported April 18 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), suggest that there can be a range of afterslip durations along faults, making it more challenging to predict how post-earthquake movements might damage nearby infrastructure for years after a major earthquake.

Kathmandu's basin of soft sediments helped amplify low - frequency waves, as seen in its destructive effect on taller buildings, says Youssef Hashash, an earthquake engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and the lead author of a report published last week that documented the quake's damage to infrastructure.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

«Protecting floodplains or developing them in ways that can withstand flooding — such as flood - tolerant parks — can prevent unnecessary risk to people and help avoid expensive damage to property and infrastructure.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

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«It provides the State with sea level rise projections based on best scientific understanding to ensure that infrastructure is sited and designed in a manner that will avoid or minimize future loss or damage.»

With the US government striving to improve its road infrastructure after a fatal bridge collapse in Minnesota in 2007, new methods to clear snow without damaging structures are being sought.

She discusses the mechanics of quakes, the increase in human - induced tremors, the ways cities are safeguarding infrastructures (or not) against damage, and advances in technology that make these fleeting but powerful phenomena easier to predict.

In an effort to understand how extreme weather causes structural damage, four Japanese organisations — the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), the Building Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University — have been developing a tornado simulator.

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Some 12,000 alien organisms have been detected in Europe, and between 10 % and 15 % are thought to be invasive, causing as much as $ 12 billion per year of damage to agriculture, infrastructure, and health.

They identified 25 glacial lakes across the Bolivian Andes as potentially dangerous to communities and infrastructure, as they could result in very damaging floods.

Changes in permafrost could cause significant impacts — for example, by causing erosion that damages buildings, roads, or other infrastructure, by causing shifts in ecosystems, and by contributing large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere.

We're talking decreased biodiversity, water shortages, increasing heat waves (both in frequency and intensity), decreased crop yields due to these impacts, damage to infrastructure, displacement of millions of people, etc..

They found the consequences of the drought — which included temporary water shut - offs, a spike in dengue fever cases, and higher electricity prices — were a result of low water availability combined with the numbers of people involved and damage to the infrastructure system.

Inside neurons, ATM provides a crucial role in repairing the cell's infrastructure, somewhat like that of a bridge inspector, but the expanded HD protein may be causing ATM to misjudge DNA damage.

Much of the death and damage in Haiti was the result of infrastructure that was too weak to withstand such a powerful earthquake.

«The loss of that infrastructure would do considerable damage to the education that our children receive and would inevitably lead to teacher supply problems in the future,» he said.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

And the Guild and the Society are going about exposing details of what they characterize as unfair and inadequate payment practices that they say damage authors» ability to make a living and take advantage of authors» comparatively weak stance in the face of a corporate publishing infrastructure.