Sentences with phrase «interest of our public lands»

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This turns the rental value of land — value created by society and public infrastructure investment — into a flow of interest to the banks.

Texas eminent domain lawyer Luke Ellis, told the Houston Chronicle: «The public interest question surrounding exports provides an opening to challenge land takings in court, and is almost certainly on the minds of pipeline executives.»

The B.C. Utilities Commission and the Agricultural Land Commission were cut out of the process by the B.C. Liberal government, despite the fact that it's their job to examine these kinds of projects in the public interest.

Amending the Responsible Energy Development Act to include a requirement that the regulator must consider whether resource development applications are in the public interest, and reinstate the right of landowners to appeal environmental decisions affecting their land to an independent Environmental Appeals Board.

There is little evidence of organized interest in the issues of land use and food production, and the voting public seems content to let farm subsidies artificially support the corn industry and postpone transformation.

The majority — the New York Public Interest Research Group, the League of Women Voters and Citizens Union — landed on the side of a limited «look back» period.

From an eyewitness account of the Tuesday Town of Sanford Board meeting, we heard the following: «People speaking included those with land and with leases who had signed the petition asking for the resolution that was passed to be rescinded, for board members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves from shale gas decisions, and for no resolutions on shale gas extraction to be passed without notifying the public a week in advance and allowing full participation.

Empire Government Strategies took in $ 284,500, a minuscule amount when compared with the largest New York lobbying firms but enough to land it third on a list of fastest - growing firms, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group report.

It will interest the state government that most of the government lands acquisition are being encroached upon by land speculators who had been thereby selling to unsuspecting members of the public.

«For the first time, people wanted to throw the supreme law of the land — the constitution — aside because of some parochial interest... She's one of the most vilified public officers ever seen in this country in recent times, but I doff my hat for her that she stood very tall in all this and did her work effectively.

However in the public interest, we allowed for use of our land whiles government take steps to pay us promptly.

But then both the BBC and News International have no interest in a candidate who will actually land some blows on Blair and Brown and introduce meaningful public service reform for the benefit of all.

«While he has steered clear of efforts to sell off public lands and supported the Land and Water Conservation Fund, far more often Rep. Zinke has advanced policies that favor special interests,» said Jamie Williams, president of the Wilderness Society, in a statement.

«Judge Nakamura's ruling reaffirms our position that the BLNR's actions have failed to protect Native Hawaiian rights and the public's interest in these public lands of Mauana a Wakea,» Kalani Flores of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation said.

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She represents private entities and public interest groups on a variety of land use, planning and entitlement matters throughout various stages of the real estate development and environmental regulatory process.

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

● Opportunities to work with staff and volunteers from diverse backgrounds that share a common interest in preserving and protecting our natural lands ● If eligible, opportunity to receive the Public Lands Corps Award upon completion of interlands ● If eligible, opportunity to receive the Public Lands Corps Award upon completion of interLands Corps Award upon completion of internship

The first words of the opening paragraph of the proclamation explained why the land warranted preservation, and read, «Whereas certain public islands lying off the coast of Southern California contain fossils of Pleistocene elephants and ancient trees, and furnish noteworthy examples of ancient volcanism, deposition, and active sea erosion, and have situated thereon various other objects of geological and scientific interest...»

Activities like Archon's Forge is an interesting new spin on public events, and one of the ways that Bungie funnels players into the new land mass called The Plaguelands.

However, the NYT, to their credit, did cover the current efforts by the BLM to sabotage the expansion of solar thermal electricity generation in the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html — that would be the same BLM that has been working overtime to transfer public lands to fossil fuel interests for the past 8 years or so.

A bill introduced in Congress this week to «save uranium mining,» the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, would undo that protection from new uranium mining claims.Despite all the talk about energy independence, «a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands,» said Jane Danowitz of the Pew Environment Group, in response to the legislation.

We must block fossil fuel interests who aim to squeeze every last drop of oil from public lands, off - shore, and wilderness areas.

Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia: A public interest lawyer and mother of two, Zuzana Čaputová spearheaded a successful campaign that shut down a toxic waste dump that was poisoning the land, air and water in her community, setting a precedent for public participation in post-communist Slovakia.

Those interests are reflected in her experience in Washington, D.C., where she worked as a U.S. congressman's legislative assistant and also researched legislation to brief members of the House National Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee.

Sarah has a keen interest in public - land - management policy, particularly as it relates to the development of renewable energy on public lands.

His latest book, Grand Canyon for Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change, was published by the University of California Press in 2017

The BLM and the DOE identified a need to respond in a more efficient and effective manner to the high interest in utility - scale solar energy development (in particular development to be sited on public lands), and to ensure consistent application of measures to avoid, minimize, or mitigate the adverse impacts of such development.

WHEREAS it is in the public interest to preserve the objects of scientific and historic interest on the lands in and around Browns Canyon;

«Any plans to reorganize need to be seen in the wider context of Zinke's crusade to downsize and change Interior's mission by handing over our public lands and waters to oil companies and other special interests,» Alex Taurel, deputy legislative director of the League of Conservation Voters, told Earther in a statement.

As we see more governments signing over forest lands to corporate interests, the power of public awareness campaigns is emerging and creating a real opportunity to secure land rights and ultimately conserve our precious forests.

Ironically, Trump's reputed interest in freeing - up permitting of energy infrastructure (e.g., gas pipelines and drilling on public lands, if indeed it can be achieved) may have the paradoxical effect of further reducing emissions.

To guard «the most glorious heritage a people ever received,» he protected 230 million acres of land and created 23 new national parks, and passed the Antiquities Act that let presidents «declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest... to be National Monuments.»

«Although proponents of expanded Grand Canyon mining cite American energy independence, a significant percentage of these mining claims and pending operations are controlled by foreign interests, which pay no royalties for the mineral wealth they extract from U.S. public lands.

Here's more: Domestic Energy Gains Not Worth Environmental Degradation In his ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina said that the any gains to be had from development of domestic energy resources on the lands were outweighed by the public interest in avoiding damaging the environment of these areas.

The authorities suggest two related elements — a fiduciary duty owed by the Crown to Aboriginal people when dealing with Aboriginal lands, and the right to encroach on Aboriginal title if the government can justify this in the broader public interest under s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

The relevant statutory objectives, supplied by British Columbia's Land Act and the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act, were identified as the duties to administer and dispose of Crown lands in the public interest, as well as to encourage outdoor recreaLands, Parks and Housing Act, were identified as the duties to administer and dispose of Crown lands in the public interest, as well as to encourage outdoor recrealands in the public interest, as well as to encourage outdoor recreation.

However, they also found that the Minister's decision was reasonable because it reflects a proportionate balancing of the s. 2 (a) Charter right and the Minister's statutory objectives to administer Crown land and dispose of it in the public interest.

Chris represents clients» interests at all levels of government oversight and before agencies focused on the environment, land use, public safety and health.

Gimbel et al. v. Alberta (Minister of Public Works, Supply and Services) 2013 ABCA 290 Expropriation — Measure of compensation — Elements of compensation — Interest After lengthy expropriation proceedings, the Land Compensation Board awarded interest at an investor's rate of a 90 day TInterest After lengthy expropriation proceedings, the Land Compensation Board awarded interest at an investor's rate of a 90 day Tinterest at an investor's rate of a 90 day T - bill.

Sustainable Community Development Clinic - Engage in economic development projects, both on behalf of clients and on behalf of the public interest, with a goal of increasing social justice and social enterprise in a range of substantive areas including land use, housing, local food, and healthy communities.

Craft, a descendant of Manitoba Métis Louis Riel who practises at the Public Interest Law Centre in Winnipeg, notes aboriginal law has come a long way in recent years: until the early 1950s, the Indian Act banned First Nations from hiring lawyers to pursue land claims.

From last year's judgment of Associate Chief Justice Rooke in Meads v. Meads, 2012 ABQB 571, to the recent occupation of a Calgary apartment by a Freeman - of - the - land who claimed it as an «embassy», OPCA litigants have disrupted the functioning of legal system while attracting public attention and interest.

[The conservation, development and utilization of the agricultural, mineral, forest, water and other natural resources of the commonwealth are public uses, and the general court shall have power to provide for the taking, upon payment of just compensation therefor, of lands and easements or interests therein, including water and mineral rights, for the purpose of securing and promoting the proper conservation, development, utilization and control thereof and to enact legislation necessary or expedient therefor.]

Denver, Colorado About Blog Our goal is to solicit broad participation from a cross-section of interests in a respectful atmosphere of mutual learning on topics related to the Forest Service and public lands policy.

acquisition of private land for public use, financial concepts, current markets, interest rates... review, mapping, compensation negotiation and financial settlements.

For instance, it was noted in the Report that negotiations between the state and native title claimants are often conducted where the State, as managers of land and resources, seeks to utilise land or permit the public or private interests to utilise land that is also the subject of a native title claim.

The other framework in which negotiations are conducted is where the State, as managers of land and resources, seeks to utilise land or permit the public or private interests to utilise land that is the subject of a native title claim.

... The legal practitioner who ventures into this field must know not only the detail of the Native Title Act, but must also have a thorough understanding of the common law system of tenure and its different estates as well as the various statutory schemes by which the several States and Territories have, from time to time, provided for the creation of private interests in and for the use by governments and individuals of public lands.

any person who when the notice is given holds a proprietary interest, in relation to any of the area covered by the application, that is registered in a public register of interests in relation to land or waters maintained by the Commonwealth, a State or Territory (provided the registrar does not consider that, in the circumstances, it would be unreasonable to give notice to the person);