Sentences with phrase «do environmental impact studies»

At that time there was pressure on the World Bank to do environmental impact studies on its projects.

Not exact matches

Academic studies have found that increased environmental regulation doesn't actually have much impact on employment.

«Although there is no substantial difference between the environmental impacts of the three systems studied, it does show where each system can be improved,» said Tricia Henton, director of environmental protection at the Environment Agency.

Economic and environmental impact studies will need to be done before the plan can be implemented.

Neighbors blasted the plan, which is the first individual project to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing rezoning, saying the «affordable» income requirement didn't match with those in the area and that there was no environmental impact study to see what effect the building would have on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

Aside from the Alternative Analysis study, the city would also need to do an Environmental Impact Statement to get the project moving forward, the SIEDC said.

The Joint Landowners Coalition of New York is demanding the release of the state's environmental impact study on hydraulic fracturing, and are threatening to take legal action if the state doesn't release the report.

«While we do have a lot of work left to do - we do have $ 6 million for the environmental impact study that will tell us exactly how, and how much it will cost, to restore our community.

«There will be no significant impact,» Davis said, adding that the department has done traffic and environmental studies showing the garage would not burden the community, despite many in attendance disagreeing.

Environmental scientists who studied the Unknown's impacts did not pursue the mystery.

He expects it will be a decade or more before ESRU's turbines are ready to be used in earnest in the sea — much more testing must be done, in addition to the environmental impact studies and garnering of support from utility companies.

«While the study didn't measure environmental impacts, it is a very valid reason for producers to adopt no - tillage and or cover crops,» said Boyer.

«It's a timely thing to do and imaginative, and I applaud them for that,» says Peter Thorne, an environmental health scientist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, who studies the public health impacts of traditional livestock.

At a ground - breaking ceremony on 27 August 2009, USAMRIID Commander John Skvorak said, «I'm confident the folks who did the [environmental impact] study did a thorough job.»

Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»

This is because they also include in their impact study, cost of returned unites; once an order is delivered to a book store, the environmental impact does not stop.

A negative declaration with regard to CEQA is basically an official statement from a qualified agency stating that CEQA does not apply in a particular case and an environmental impact study is not needed.

An environmental impact study needs to be done by, I suppose, the U.N. since the location is international.

We expect our mapping will allow researchers to conduct more robust studies on the long - term environmental and health impacts of surface mining, which in turn will help mining - impacted communities hold industry and government accountable for repairing the damage done to Appalachian landscapes, ecosystems and public health.

As many comparative studies have done before, the analysis includes an assessment of the environmental impacts associated with the fuel cycle (primary production, extraction, transportation, refining, and vehicle operation) for each of the modes includes in the tool.

BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig was exempted from having an detailed environmental impact study done by the Department of Interior last

Studies would also need to be done concerning the environmental impact of introducing such vast quantities of a human - made substance in the ocean, the albedo difference between ice and foam, the longevity of the solution, the cost of such an effort, and the carbon dioxide emitted during foam production and placement.

DeSmogBlog has also done an in - depth investigation on the environmental impacts of fracking in the Fracking the Future report, and found that the potentially devastating impacts from unconventional gas development on water supplies, air quality and the global climate deserve much greater study and scrutiny.

In December 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its six - year, multi-million dollar, national study of hydraulic fracturing and did not find evidence that the process leads to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.

In B.C., to do this we would have had to make an application, provide an environmental impact study, insure our activities against pedestrian injury, translate all material into several official and unofficial languages, provide access ramps, wear protective clothing and headgear and make a contribution to a salmon protection society.