Sentences with phrase «land acquisition by»

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

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Medline moved from the forest products industry to Canadian Tire in the early 2000s and made a quick impression by landing the Mark's acquisition.

It urged avoidance of deals that are managed by a paid promoter, involve land acquired within the past 36 months, and claim deductions of more than 2.5 times the property's acquisition cost.

Capital from the closing will be used by Renewable Properties to fund corporate and operating expenses, as well as, project specific expenses including project acquisitions and development related activities including securing land, interconnection applications and studies, permitting, environmental studies and reviews.

Some fortunes were dissipated by one's heirs or turned into land acquisition and other prestige asset ownership.

This property has all the right features you would like to see in a first exploration - stage land package, and unlike so many other exploration stories, the acquisition of the Pampas el Penon project was already accompanied by a valid (and actually very likely) exit strategy, as senior gold producer Yamana Gold (AUY.TO) is producing gold and silver just a few kilometers to the south, and is in need for more mill feed as its operations are running inefficiently at the moment.

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

Accordingly the book of Joshua, while here and there acknowledging a slow, long - sustained process of occupation - acquisition, understandably emphasizes a total and utterly decisive conquest of the entire land by force of arms.

A Brazilian businessman involved in the acquisition of farmland by US, Canadian, German and Swedish pension funds could face criminal charges for land grabbing.

On the land acquisition wish list are a 45 - acre former Nike missile site on Central Road, owned by the federal government, and 35 acres owned by School District 214 at Hersey High School.

Some of the first land acquisitions made by the new Park District included the dedication of Memorial Park by the Village (originally donated to the Village in 1883 by Dr. John Best as the site for a soldier's memorial) and leasing the railroad parks along the Chicago and Northwestern right of way.

The first bonds were issued, by ordinance, for land acquisition and development of a southside park in 1931.

The 90 projects currently under consideration by the state agency would require $ 16.3 million in land acquisition and development funding, but only $ 12.3 million is available.

The District issued $ 300,000 in bonds by ordinance in December 1983, for the first time since 1938, for the purpose of land acquisition and to upgrade the computer system.

In December of 1972 the vote went against the Park District's referendum to issue $ 2,550,000 in general obligation bonds for park improvement and development including the construction of a fieldhouse at Dryden Park, land acquisition, the construction of a north side maintenance garage, and the construction of an indoor ice rink complex along with increasing the corporate tax rate by.025 %.

Three ordinances supporting the Department of Planning and Development's acquisition of land for the parks were introduced in City Council late last month and will likely be approved by fall, according to Pete Scales, spokesman for the Planning Department.

Roger Kotecki, vice chairman of the Forest Preserve District's Land Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva RoLand Acquisition Committee, said the 4.9 - acre acquisition — along with the other land operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roland operated by the Glen Ellyn Park District — means there will be about 20 acres of open space in the area of St. Charles and Geneva Roads.

The larger portion of the Oneida claim, to the 6 - million - acre (24,000 km2) tract, was rejected by the Second Circuit in 1988 on the grounds that the Confederation Congress Proclamation of 1783 had neither the authority nor the intent to limit the acquisition of Indian lands within the borders of US states.

Each capital project request shall show: recommended priority; development; time schedule; estimated costs for planning, site of right of way, construction, equipment and other features; status of plans and land acquisition; anticipated effect of project on annual operating budget; possible sources of financial aid; recommended expenditures by years; and such other information as the Budget Director and Commissioner of Environment and Planning may deem advisable.

First came the news that former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker (R) will have to testify next month about his role in a land acquisition deal with Wal - Mart — a fact Democrats immediately sought to exploit as evidence of questionable ethical practices by the Republican.

THE Rivers State Ministry of Lands and Survey has dismissed the claim in some quarters that the ongoing land acquisition exercise by the state government is aimed at victimising land and property owners in the state.

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.

In a letter sent to Citi FM, a disgruntled landowner, Felix Komlah Mensah, said despite the provisions made in the constitution for prompt compensation for such compulsory acquisition of land by the state, successive governments have failed to meet that obligation.

'' Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by representatives from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency («ECIDA»), the Empire State Development Corporation («ESD»), the City of Lackawanna, and Tecumseh Redevelopment Inc. along with numerous other officials and agencies to announce Erie County's acquisition of 148 acres of industrial land at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna.

This year it's largely positive, driven by the state's acquisition of wilderness lands and investment in the Environmental Protection Fund.

The call coincides with the announcement by the trust of a new acquisition in north Wales — a lovely piece of wildlife and archaeology - rich land on the Great Orme headland, home to rare butterflies, unique plants and nimble Kashmiri goats.

«The Adirondack Forest Preserve is a national treasure, and adding nearly 21,000 acres to the Preserve by completing the acquisition of the former Finch lands will benefit the region for generations to come,» said Governor Cuomo.

Investigators also probed the 2007 sale of a 3.3 - acre parcel in Halfmoon to state Sen. Kathleen Marchione by Landmark Development Group, a land acquisition arm for Robert Marini Builders.

We appreciate attempts by the European consultancy Ecofys to investigate the opaque process of land acquisitions in developing countries by...

For example a recent study by the World Bank showed that the perceived availability of land is one important factor in determining the probability of being a destination country for land acquisitions.

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costs» means amounts substantially all of which are paid by, or for the account of, an obligor in connection with a project, including the cost of» (A) development phase activities, including planning, feasibility analysis, revenue forecasting, environmental review, permitting, preliminary engineering and design work, and other preconstruction activities;» (B) construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, replacement, and acquisition of real property (including land relating to the project and improvements to land), environmental mitigation, construction contingencies, and acquisition of equipment; and» (C) capitalized interest necessary to meet market requirements, reasonably required reserve funds, capital issuance expenses, and other carrying costs during construction.»

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.

Selected group exhibitions include Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2006, 2010), «Open Plan Living» (2008), curated by Andrew Renton at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv, «Lush Life» (2010), curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez - Chahoud at Invisible Exports, NYC, «Unnatural» (2012), curated by Tami Ketz Freiman at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, «Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art» (2012) at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and «The Compromised Land» (2013), curated by Lilly Wei and Helaine Posner at the Neuberger Museum, NY.

A major work of land art by Nancy Holt and Liotard's largest extant work on pastel are among this month's top acquisitions

The design and construction of the new building, along with the acquisition of land for the sculpture garden, has been funded entirely by a major capital gift from Irma and Norman Braman.

Dia Art Foundation has acquired two works by Nancy Holt (1938 - 2014), marking its first acquisition of land art by a female artist, reported The New York Times.

In addition to the many recent acquisitions to the Marieluise Hessel Collection including new works by Rachel Rose, Philippe Parreno, Hito Steyerl, and Jutta Koether, among others, in 2012, CCS Bard acquired the Colin de Land, American Fine Arts, Co. and Pat Hearn Gallery Archives (for which a major exhibition is planned for 2017), and in 2013 received the gift of the John Hanhardt Archive, a unique history of exhibitions and artists working with the moving image over the past fifty years (from Nam June Paik to Cory Arcangel).

Her work was included in Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Manifest Destiny billboard project, organized by LAND in 2014.

Literally Based on H.Z., 2006, by Liam Gillick, which investigates latter - day industrially - inspired production models, goes on view for the first time since its acquisition, on the Landing in the context of this exhibition.

Group Exhibitions 2018 Official Selection, Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, NJ 2017 Worm's Work, curated by Mild Climate, The Finishing School, Athens GA Unloaded, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA Official Selection, 5th Annual Short Shorts, White Space Atlanta GA Official Selection, Best Shorts Competition (Award of Recognition), La Jolla, CA Official Selection, The World's Independent Film Festival, San Francisco, CA 2016 Acts of Sedition: A Group Exhibition, White Box, NYC, NY Transitions: States of Being, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA 2015 Drawing Experiment, Chastain Gallery, Atlanta GA Birdwatching, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta GA 2014 Exquisite Exhibit, curated by Joey Orr, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Score: Artists in Overtime, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2013 Ant Linkage, Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA 2012 Paper Moon, Clayton Gallery, Kennesaw State University Museum and Galleries, Kennesaw GA Soltem Os Bichos, Atlelie397, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil 2011 Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Staying Healthy, David J. Spencer Museum at the CDC, Atlanta GA Something Along The Lines of Rock «N» Roll, Solomon Projects, Atlanta GA New Media from the Permanent Collection, MOCA GA, Atlanta GA 2010 Hand to Hand, AthICA, Athens GA Limitless, Agnes Scott College, Dalton Gallery, Decatur GA Everything and the Space between Everything, Agnus Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Chaffee Art Center, Rutledge VT 2009 More Mergers and Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta GA Accessing the Artist's Brain: Drawing as Metaphor, AVA Gallery, Chattanooga TN Three Small Deaths (film screening), DiverseWorks, Houston TX Everything and the Space between Everything, Jackson - Hartsfeild Airport, Atrium Gallery Atlanta and Agnes Scott College, McCain Library, Round Wall Gallery, Decatur GA Hand to Hand, Western Kentucky University Gallery, Bowling Green KY 2008 The World's Smallest Art Fair, Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC NY Hand to Hand, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2007 Little Things Mean A Lot, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta GA Tablet: Contemporary Southern Painting, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga TN Tenth Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, ASU Museum of Art, Tempe, AZ Exile From The Land Of Reason, Eyedrum, Atlanta GA The Petrified Man, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA 2006 Flamingo Sculpture Garden, Scope Art Fair, Miami FL Run For Your Lives, DiverseWorks, Houston TX Hand to Hand, Ruby Green Gallery, Nashville TN 2005 Toy, Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA SouthXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL Gas, Food, Lodging: Imagining Escape, Welch School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Ga..

A pioneer in the acquisition of Indigenous art since 1939, the Gallery has a substantial number of Arnhem Land objects collected by anthropologist, Charles Mountford 1948 - 1952.

2005 Realms of Creation: Wölfli & Darger, Side by Side, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY Mixed - Up Childhood, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Musgrave Kinley Outsider Collection, Tate Britain, London, UK Recent Acquisitions, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY Dubuffet und Art Brut, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany Every Picture Tells a Story, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY Mixed - Up Childhood, Aukland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Écriture en délire, Halle Saint - Pierre, Paris, France Create and Be Recognized, Photography on the Edge, Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Only Make Believe, Compton Verney House Trust, Warwickshire, UK Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Summer Exhibition, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY Life and Limb, Kinz + Tillou, New York, NY Verborgen werelden (Hidden Worlds), Museum Dr. Guislan, Ghent, Belgium Self and Subject, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY Landings, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY

Growing water demand, driven by population growth and foreign land (and water) acquisitions, are straining the Nile's natural limits.

The new government has set the right tone by encouraging a freeze on further land investments, but must ban all further land acquisitions — including by the military — if it is serious about preventing further conflict.»

Some of his suggestions for local planning initiatives include: Preserve wetlands by passing local wetlands protection laws; maintain biodiversity in the Hudson Valley by protecting sensitive lands through land acquisition; refrain from building in flood plains; require all new building to be «green» and sustainable and, ideally, change local building codes to require LEED certification; switch all public and government buildings to energy suppliers that provide wind and solar options as alternatives; implement smart growth communities by keeping construction in areas that are already developed thus preserving green corridors; and support cap - and - trade laws to decrease CO2 levels.

These acquisitions were made possible, in part, by the easements, which reduced the purchase price of the land.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

The grant commitment provides Scenic Hudson, the largest environmental organization focused on the Hudson River Valley, access to new funds for accelerating land acquisition at a time when runaway residential development threatens the beauty and environmental health of a region designated by Congress as a National Heritage Area.

Led by investors from countries like South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and India, the bulk of land acquisition has occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.