Sentences with phrase «from land mines»

Cambodia can not rely on other nations to make its territory safe from land mines, a UN military spokesman said in Bangkok last week.

Lucas was preceded by his reputation as a ladies» man whose wife allegedly left him for his best friend and who had witnessed horrors like watching a pal get blown up in Iraq from a land mine and who went to Darfur and also to post-Katrina New Orleans only to conclude that he accomplished nothing.

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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Poseidon Nickel has landed an agreement for Kidman Resources to use its mothballed Lake Johnston infrastructure to process lithium ore from the Melbourne - based company's Mt Holland mine, in a deal potentially worth at least $ 18.5 million.

Andrew Forrest has lost his battle to stop Yarri Mining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the PiMining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pimining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pimining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pilbara.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

A NEWLY approved proposal to amend the Mining Act and increase prospector's access to land across WA has drawn fire from a key mining industry Mining Act and increase prospector's access to land across WA has drawn fire from a key mining industry mining industry group.

He tried grey smoked salt and Cabernet salt, but landed on pink Himalayan salt, partly because of its story: It's from the oldest salt mine in the world, it has 84 trace minerals, and it's pink!»

It's also giving the fossil fuels sector whiplash from a White House whose energy policies have otherwise been very good to them, from starting to undo greenhouse gas regulations to opening more public land to mining and drilling and tax cuts.

House Democrats have launched a perpetual U.S. mining reform crusade proposing measures that would force miners to pay royalties for minerals extracted from public lands and contribute to a fund for clean - up costs.

One day prior to the CEAA announcement, hundreds of marchers, drawing people from Occupy Vancouver and including masked protestors, paraded through downtown Vancouver to denounce «mining on native land.»

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

'' But if you abandon Me and disobey the laws and commands I have given you, and if you go and worship other gods, then I will uproot the people of Israel from this land of Mine that I have given them.»

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Human groundwater contamination can be related to waste disposal (private sewage disposal systems, land disposal of solid waste, municipal wastewater, wastewater impoundments, land spreading of sludge, brine disposal from the petroleum industry, mine wastes, deep - well disposal of liquid wastes, animal feedlot wastes, radioactive wastes) or not directly related to waste disposal (accidents, certain agricultural activities, mining, highway deicing, acid rain, improper well construction and maintenance, road salt).

During the Vietnam war, when government officials talked of «regrettable by - products,» they meant civilians killed by mistake; «pacification» meant the forcible evacuation of Vietnamese from their huts, the rounding up of all males, the shooting of those who resisted, the slaughtering of domesticated animals and the burning of dwellings; «incursion» meant another invasion of another country; creating a «sanitized belt» meant forcibly removing all the inhabitants of the area being «sanitized,» cutting down the trees, bulldozing the land and erecting «defensive positions» with machine guns, mortars and mines.

It might take two leaps to get Purdue back to respectability, especially with a schedule that features six teams from last year's F / + top 40, but barring land mines, Purdue appears to be on the right course.

A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Inusah Fuseini, has lamented that he did not get the necessary support from stakeholders when he tried waging war on illegal mining in the country with the use of drones.

National Forest Mining — Vote Passed (216 - 204, 13 Not Voting) Passage of the bill would prohibit the designation of national monuments and the withdrawal of lands in the National Forest System in the state of Minnesota from mineral and geothermal leases without the approval of Congress.

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The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has named some mining firms that will from henceforth have military protection.

The government through the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources as part of activities to stop the menace, has temporarily placed a ban on the issuance of licenses for small - scale mining, and directed all illegal miners to cease the practice and evacuate from the various sites.

Because so many mines in recent years are made from plastics to avoid location by metal detectors, based on United Nations research it will take 1,100 years to clear the world's existing inventory of 110 million land mines buried in 70 countries.

«Traditionally explosives detection has involved looking for metals that encase them such as in land mines,» says project leader Dr Georgios Tsiminis, from the University's Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing.

An Abandoned Copper Mine Land contaminated by runoff from industrial waste may soon be reclaimed by an unusual army of eco-warriors: metal - eating earthworms.

The fossil, taken from amber mines in Myanmar, dates 97 - 110 million years ago to the early - to - mid Cretaceous, when the land was still dominated by dinosaurs and conifers, but the earliest flowering plants, grasses and small mammals were beginning to evolve.

All this consumption requires a host of natural resources, from vast copper mines scarring the landscape to ever more land for food.

A California Institute of Technology doctorate, Dugan served as a DARPA program manager from 1996 — 2000, earning praise for her stewardship of a program that produced a field - portable system for land mine detection.

Sand is mined for a wide range of uses, from making concrete, glass, asphalt and electronics to reclaiming land and aiding in the extraction of fossil fuels.

He declares a relevant interest in income derived from leasing land for farming, coal mining and wind power.

Engaging stakeholders and society in an issue that takes place miles from land and fathoms underwater can be a daunting task, especially in the face of economic arguments for mining the deep sea for materials used in products that society values, like cell phones and other electronics.

The authors caution that Amazonian forests and reserves still face a barrage of threats, from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts intensified by global warming, and direct invasions of indigenous lands.

When Kempthorne first proposed opening up the land to uranium mining, several concerned parties — including dozens of elected officials, public utilities and Native American tribes — complained about potential threats to surface and ground water from such activities.

Three organizations — the Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust and Sierra Club — filed suit in federal court in October 2008 to block the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the area, from allowing uranium mining in what they consider risky and nationally significant areas.

Secure land, free from mines, is «in short supply» said a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed a new military vehicle shock absorbing device that may protect troops from traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a land mine blast.

Educational sites are more than just places for learning to read and count; they can also serve as refuges from the psychological impact of living in a war zone and as centers to furnish health information and instruction in protective measures, such as ways to avoid land mines.

And from Canada came a variety of First Nations representatives, discussing past and current work to deal with the aftermath of uranium mining on their lands.

Public involvement campaigns, combining citizen action with accurate technical information, have been central to the progress made during the past 25 years to prevent pollution from future mining, and restoration of lands damaged by past mining around the world.

From the historical perspective, the lingering impacts of underground uranium mining on the health and lands of the Navajo people are most often cited by community leaders as one of the principal reasons why so many Diné disfavor new uranium development by any method, including the in situ leach (ISL) technique.

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Other articles in this issue discuss mining on indigenous lands, the expansion of uranium mining in New Mexico, and an excerpt from a report on the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.

At Southwest Research and Information Center, much of our work over the past 35 years has been to address the enormous legacy of nuclear's past and present — sick and dead people and contaminated land and water from uranium mining and milling, the world's first underground nuclear waste repository, and the political and economic power of the two nuclear weapons laboratories and their environmental impacts.

In 2009 we won a grand victory for the Grand Canyon when Interior Secretary Salazar announced a two - year halt on new uranium - mining claims and exploration on 1 million acres of land near Grand Canyon National Park, with potential for a 20 - year withdrawal of those lands from most uranium mining.

About 600 of the cards call on President Clinton to issue an executive order «barring federal agencies from approving new uranium mining on Navajo lands without the consent of the Navajo Nation or its people.»

Rather, the cards contain a succinct message from citizens of the Navajo Nation and surrounding communities in the Four Corners Area: «Say «No» to Uranium Mining on Navajo Lands.»

The BLM and USFS also initiated today the public comment process associated with their proposal to withdraw a subset of lands that are sage - grouse strongholds from future mining claims.

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

Land based sea salts mined from ancient sea beds such as Himalaya sea salt or Redmond Real Salt are preferable due the alarming pollution in our oceans today.