Sentences with phrase «environmental projects do»

One reason attributed to this is because the airline industry is so financially troubled that they need immediate results and environmental projects do not always give immediate returns.

Not exact matches

The Panel found that, «the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,» but they did allow that a spill would involve significant adverse environmental effects.

By giving employees the ability to adapt over small day to day shifts in to - do lists, noise, and environmental needs, it also gives them a greater sense of autonomy when it's time to address larger concerns, like project ownership.

I should stress that Voser did not wade in on Canadian politics, and did say he supports the federal government's push to streamline environmental approval processes for energy projects.

If you do the research you will discover that the project makes not economic, environmental, or common sense.

One is that Keystone is a particular project and because people are making a decision around that project, they are looking to see what Canada and Alberta are doing around their environmental record, and so we come and talk about that.

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

The highlight was working on a whole - of - life data project that involved constructing networks of environmental monitoring stations in the Australian outback, and then using the collected data to empirically model groundwater dynamics — which doesn't sound all that interesting, but was actually quite a departure from the generally accepted contemporary methods.

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

I worked at an environmental consultancy for nearly a year for one of my CO-OP placements during my undgergrad, and one of the experiences from my time there that really stuck with me was doing groundwater sampling on a landfill site for a groundwater monitoring project.

Although Mass Audubon has no position on the merits of gambling, we do have concerns with projects that would have major implications for the environment like resort destination casinos and have made recommendations for their reduced environmental impact.

The DEC contended the project's owners, led by gas company Williams Partners L.P, didn't provide a comprehensive analysis of the environmental impact of the pipeline's burial.

But a spokesperson representing the Commission emphasized that it was not concerned with the Rosia Montana project because it so far does not breach any EU environmental regulations.

«It seems that the project has gone over budget because there are some environmental issues that were not initially anticipated that had to be addressed, but I don't believe that that will impede or slow the movement of the project forward,» Brown said.

The environmental impact statement also lists the Trumpbour Farm in Saugerties as being an historic site «within» the project area, but does not specify whether lines would be on that property.

Justin Jobin, the environmental projects coordinator with the Suffolk County Health Department, said, «We have to change that mentality and make people aware that just because you flush the toilet and it goes away doesn't mean that it's not doing any harm.»

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.

DeSantis said a major issue is that Moscati submitted a short version of the state environmental assessment form, asserting that the project would have no significant environmental impact and did not need major review.

Global has threatened lawsuits over delays in the project, and claimed the state could rescind its earlier declaration that the boiler didn't require a full environmental review.

«Cuomo risks damaging his environmental and political legacy if he does not stop the project after significant questions have been raised about its approval,» said Pramilla Malick, from Protect Orange County, which opposes the plant.

The judges said the Tyre town board did not follow state environmental review law when it came to providing a clear, written record of why it declared the project would not harm the environment.

On March 28, 2014, the Board of Directors for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing business as Empire State Development («ESD»), accepted the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement («the DSEIS»), adopted an amendment to the Modified General Project Plan («the Proposed Amendment»), and authorized a Public Hearing in connection with the Atlantic Yards Land Use Improvement and Civic Project.

Today Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn announced that state Supreme Court Judge Marcy Friedman has ordered the Empire State Development Corp. to conduct additional environmental review of the project, including a Supplemental Environmental Impaenvironmental review of the project, including a Supplemental Environmental ImpaEnvironmental Impact Statement.

We often do this with bridge and road projects where we don't have a source of funding readily available but we'll have the whole project (specifics), environmental's done, and it's essentially ready to go if the federal government gets back to the business of funding infrastructure.»

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.

DeFrancisco said he was concerned the Cuomo administration had «fudged» some of the intended uses of the loan because they had nothing to do with environmental projects and said it was all an attempt to put off a toll increase announcement.

The suit challenged the project's environmental impact report, maintaining that it did not disclose the potential harm to residents.

But the fact that the trip was sponsored by the AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, helped, as did information supplied by the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP), the Chinese NGO, whose executive director has travelled to North Korea many times.

«The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) might all lay claim,» Servick wrote, and «many new technologies don't fit neatly into the purview of one office,» according to a report from the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Washington, D.C. — based think tank.

Nevertheless, «the first CCS project that is done badly is the last CCS project that will be done,» warns Mark Brownstein, New York City — based managing director of business partnerships in the climate and air program at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).

Nevertheless, «the first CCS project that is done badly is the last CCS project that will be done,» warns Mark Brownstein, New York - based managing director of business partnerships in the climate and air program at the Environmental Defense Fund.

If activists were to succeed in stopping TMT, it wouldn't be the first time: In 2002 a federal court blocked a NASA plan to build a half dozen 1.8 - meter telescopes on the mountain because it failed to do a comprehensive environmental assessment; NASA eventually abandoned the project.

Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based policy» and «data - driven decision - making,» do more to address climate change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental impact of major energy and development projects.»

«Where you can do direct monitoring of emissions, that should be required,» says Schaeffer, of the Environmental Integrity Project.

«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.

«I do find it a little bit ironic... neither one of them actually quotes the parts of the State Department final [environmental assessment] that explains, I think in pretty fair detail, that this project will not significantly contribute to climate change,» Murkowski said on the Senate floor.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

If you have a half - renovated project, seal off the construction site ASAP (plastic tarps and tape usually do the trick), then have a home inspector test for lead paint and other environmental hazards.

A long - held favourite of French pharmacies, Caudalie formulates products for those who don't want to choose between effectiveness and naturalness, and dedicates 1 % of its worldwide turnover to implementing environmental projects.

It's too bad they didn't just use the premise that attracted Pitt to the project in the first place — Max Brooks» 2007 novel, which dealt with the environmental, religious and class fallout a decade after the zombie war.

But if you're not into the Hippie - granola - tree - hugging thing or you don't have the space to go environmental, here are a couple service learning projects that have happened in my school, Green - Fields School in West Deptford, New Jersey.

Income generation projects have not yet taken off the ground enough to generate sufficient income to protect refugees from leaving the camps to seek illegal employment, but they do increase food security by providing vegetables to a primarily rice - based ration while teaching valuable agricultural skills for environmental sustainability.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

[81] While these contingent commitments are not an obligation and do not guarantee receipt of RRIF or TIFIA credit assistance, as applicable, they represent an agreement between the DOT and a project sponsor to provide credit assistance subject to the satisfaction of all of the terms and conditions for credit assistance set forth under the RRIF or TIFIA statutes, as applicable, including satisfaction of Federal eligibility requirements (such as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) and the availability of budgetary authority for such credit assistance.

The acquisition of real property in anticipation of a federally assisted or approved surface transportation project that may use the property shall not be prohibited prior to the completion of reviews of the surface transportation project under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) if the acquisition does not --

Does the hotel contribute to local development or environmental projects?

Everything they do is carefully planned out to have little - to - no environmental impact and they support many of the maintenance and restoration projects in Maui.

The large - scale sculptures, which begin as small folded paper models, combine the concept of monumental and permanent, emanating at the same time the sense of a potential change and erosion — similarly Falls did in his former project in Zabludowicz residency program in Finland, where some hand - dyed fabrics exposed to the natural elements created new objects and photographic records of the various environmental conditions.

Kleyn studied architecture at UBC in the early 1970s and apprenticed in Rome, working in architecture, film and theater, while doing projects with international agencies such as the UN Environmental Program in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.