Additional escalation of the mining impact occurs as conventional oil mining is supplanted by tar sands development, with mining and
land disturbance from the latter producing land use - related greenhouse gas emissions as much as 23 times greater than conventional oil production per unit area [152], but with substantial variability and uncertainty [152]--[153].
Not exact matches
Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to
disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or
land use change may release greater amounts of carbon
from soils than we expected.»
The ecosystem, encompassing nearly 4 million acres
from near Orlando to the Florida Bay, is threatened by a number of
disturbances including changes in hydrology and
land use.
Human activities and
land use changes that result in permanent deforestation have a much greater impact than temporary deforestation
from natural
disturbances, such as a fire.
The authors believe their findings can be used by
land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming
disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes
from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.
The paper spotlighted the need to «model the propagation of noise and light pollution
from sources in energy developments, and identify the landscape characteristics (e.g., topography, elevation, and
land cover) that may affect these sources of
disturbance.»
Drilling and site preparation involves small
land disturbances, in fact several wells can be drilled
from one 100 ft x 300 ft pad and the plant is only one - story high A large area below the surface is needed and EGS uses lower impact methods to develop and manage the underground reservoir.
The Antarctic Vortex is larger, stronger and more stable than its counterpart to the north partially due to less
disturbance from the
land mass below.
Direct measurements as collected and interpreted by the late Ernst Beck suffer
from hugh local
disturbances, if taken over
land.
(a) Ecoclimate teleconnections propagate
land - atmosphere energy
disturbances from the local region of
disturbance to remote regions potentially having ecological consequences (taken
from [14]-RRB-.
Policies that successfully increase the forest protection against natural
disturbance agents may reduce net emissions
from forest
lands (Richards et al., 2006).
From the feast of st valentine for a month a violent wind with heavy rains day and night both by
land and sea caused unheard of
disturbance.
Most of the dust that's settling in places like the San Juan mountains comes
from the desert southwest,
from land disturbances like farming, oil and gas drilling, cattle grazing, recreation and residential development on the southern end of the Colorado Plateau.
A few statutes provide for compensation to be paid in recognition of the
disturbance to traditional
land from mining.77 A number of regimes provide for royalties, or an amount equivalent to the royalties received by the state or federal government, to be paid to the Indigenous owners.
Contrary to this process specified in the Act16, some governments use the expedited procedure in relation to any mineral tenement other than mining leases.17 Cases
from the National Native Title Tribunal show such a policy is flawed because numerous non-mining lease tenements have been adjudged inappropriate for the expedited procedure.18 What should be occurring is that the Act is followed by considering tenement applications and determining whether the expedited procedure is justified in each case (and such justification is where the tenement only allows activities19 that are not likely to interfere with the relevant community and sites and are not likely to be a major
disturbance to the particular
land).