Sentences with phrase «local environmental groups said»

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The Canadian Mining Association could form a similar partnership with Canadian banks, providing training on sustainable practices to Burmese natural resource firms while leveraging the trillions of dollars raised on the TSX for projects that give environmental groups and local residents a say.

I would have to say that the people here with a corner on the market of «hate speech, legalism, and self - righteousness» would have to be the secular groups here: the politicians (any flavour), local environmental groups, the local anti-religious groups, public servants who want to squeeze Christians out of community life, and the local media.

Mr McLoughlin said the Government intended the Independent Commission chaired by Sir Howard Davies to be «part of a process that is fair and open and that takes account of the views of passengers and residents as well as the aviation industry, business, local and devolved government and environmental groups.»

Jennifer Metzger, co-founder of the group Citizens for Local Power and also a member of the Rosendale Town Board, said Pilgrim's environmental reviews need to recognize that construction near creeks and streams could have broad impacts.

The plan to drill fire suppression wells would not harm the local ecosystem, environmental groups said, though they added that conducting more «controlled burns» more often would help prevent future fires from getting out of control.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near fEnvironmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near fenvironmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near future.»

Local environmental groups oppose the transport of tar sands crude, which is extremely difficult to clean up, and which they say poses a risk to the Hudson River, Lake Champlain and other areas where railroad tracks run along the shoreline.

A determined coalition of local environmental groups and elected officials were able to protect that view for what I hope will be the next 400 years,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

«Not only does Ballot Proposal # 3 demonstrate how an amendment can be made to the Constitution without the need for a convention, it also has overwhelming bipartisan support among local governments, environmental groups, business organizations and recreational enthusiasts,» said Bill Farber of the Adirondack Association of Towns and Villages.

Road salt poses the biggest environmental threat to the Adirondack Park since acid rain, say a coalition of environmental groups, citing emerging scientific data detailing the effects on local watersheds.

«Our local governments and environmental groups are strongly united in their opposition and have done a tremendous job in Albany explaining why the proposed change would be so detrimental to our North Country economy,» Little said.

«All these acts of construction — and allowing trawlers to fish — are illegal,» says Chhatrapati Singh, director of the Centre for Environmental Law, a local group affiliated to the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Banka Behary Das, who is president of a local farmers» group that campaigns on environmental issues, says the quays will cause a massive increase in fishing near the beach.

«It is bitter air that you can feel,» says Timothy Hui, a longtime resident of Beijing who works at the local office of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. - based environmental group.

«She is the voice of greatness,» says Russel Honoré, the now - retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who became a local folk hero when he led search and rescue and evacuation after Hurricane Katrina and later founded the GreenARMY, a coalition of environmental groups fighting against pollution in the Gulf region.

Strolled through your local health food stores beauty aisle, picked up a bottle of sulfate - free shampoo that says something like «made with pure acai berry extract,» then looked up the ingredients when you got home and realized they were flagged as likely to be harmful by the Environmental Working Group?

Several local and national environmental groups interviewed by InsideClimate News said they'll attempt to sway the election in McAuliffe's favor and are currently formulating their strategies.

Moore said that mining companies in third world countries must deal with «corruption among environmental groups and local governments compounded by yellow journalism.

Ricardo Vargas, director of the environmental group Andean Action, says that unleashing a large population of moths into the area could throw the local ecosystem into confusion.

In Costa Rica, where local environmental groups and even some members of government are loudly calling for Watson's release, the Environment Minister René Castro is distancing himself from the proceedings saying «we can not interfere with the work of other government branches.»

«The simplest thing I can say is that we are going to work with local, state, regional and national government groups and look at what we can do in the courthouse,» said Vivian Stockman, of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, which lobbied against the rule change.