Sentences with phrase «garbage incinerator»
A garbage incinerator is a special machine that burns trash to turn it into energy or to get rid of it. Full definition
Meanwhile, Nixon also endorsed legislation taking the construction of garbage incinerators out of an expedited siting process.
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«California Governor Jerry Brown would never, ever allow a giant garbage incinerator to be sited in the middle of Napa Valley,» Nixon said.
If you're a green governor you should kind of know better than to bring fracked gas to a low - income minority community in downtown Albany that's already suffered years ago with the Albany ANSWERS garbage incinerator.
Hawkins said that he opposed the Circular EnerG garbage incinerator proposed in Romulus New York.
Faced with a new garbage incinerator, a new source of diesel pollution or a fracking proposal, community activists could demand a precautionary approach to protect people and their local environment.
They'll also happen to be the spaces in this country where garbage incinerators are built, where there's water that's not portable, et cetera, et cetera.
Heavy vehicular traffic and a garbage incinerator were in the vicinity.
One of the coalition's first battles in the late 1980s, Clark said, was to stop construction of a garbage incinerator near a North Richmond elementary school.
The levels of dioxin measured in the air near the smoldering pile «were the highest ambient measurements of dioxin ever recorded anywhere in the world,» levels at least 100 times higher than those found downwind of a garbage incinerator, according to an analysis published by EPA scientists [pdf] in 2007.
One of their projects, now under construction, is a giant waste - to - energy (the modern cleaner sounding name for a garbage incinerator) facility in Copenhagen that has a park and ski run on the roof, (lots more on TreeHugger here) and was designed to have a big smoke ring puff up every time the building released a tonne of carbon dioxide.
But Durham and York regions are proceeding with plans to build a $ 230 - million garbage incinerator in south Courtice, near Lake Ontario.
The center was named for the late John Kenney, an active Edison resident who teamed with Heller to defeat the construction of a garbage incinerator slated for the site.