Sentences with phrase «mining interests»

Some have suggested that the drive to replace the dollar bill with a coin is driven by western mining interests, while the bill is being defended by eastern paper interests.

Her parents had not known that Pillai was a grass - roots organizer taking on the powerful coal mining interests and the government.

For his work to protect the rainforests of Gabon from mining interests that threatened to destroy those areas, Mr. Ona received the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa.

We've been covering the struggle in Alaska's Bristol Bay between salmon fishers and mining interests for a while.

Very recently, says Acuña, the government promised to send police patrols to visit her property on occasion, but she feels this is far from enough — and far less than the constant police presence that protects mining interests.

The East Kundana gold project and other mining interests are shaping up well for Gilt - Edged Mining NL which has just posted a swag of «encouraging» drill intersections.

The Eastern Guruma native tital determination, resolved by mutual consent of local indigenous people and mining interests among others, was ratified today at a Federal Court hearing near Tom Price.

Just six years ago, Robert Friedland was No. 14 on the Rich 100, but the commodities slump hit his multiple mining interests hard — which ultimately knocked him off the ranking in 2014.

Synergy, which operates an IT infrastructure and data back - up service, held mining interests from its days as Nexus Minerals, which also acquired technology assets.

In Madre de Dios, Peru, indigenous communities resisted powerful gold mining interests to maintain control of their land.

The state ethics panel is examining whether her comments violated the law against state advocacy on ballot measures; it had already ruled that a state Web site was improperly slanted toward mining interests.

This time black - man - in - black Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington) leads a multi-ethnic team against a nasty rich white guy (Peter Sarsgaard, all evil glint and moustache twirling), who is intent on running the entire frontier town of Rose Creek outta town due to his nearby mining interests.

He recently left the University to devote himself more fully to his considerable mining interests.)

Caught in the crossfire: How cattle and Chinese mining interests are killing off Namibia's black rhinos

More Bristol Bay Mining Interests and Salmon Fishers Square Off in Bristol Bay Inuit Kids March in Streets to Protest Pebble Bay Mine in Alaska

With mining interests staking an ever increasing number of claims within a few miles of our national parks — 2,901 since January 2003 — it has become more critical than ever for us to act and urge Congress to take steps to limit this unfettered, massive land grab.

Advising a consortium of international mining companies and a development agency on social, health and housing arrangements in connection with its bid for Zambian mining interests.

Advising Canadian mining interests in respect of the arbitration of infrastructure construction claims subject to ICC arbitration rules (seat Canada).

Eureka, Nevada About Blog A morning report on equity and commodity markets tailored for mining interests in Eureka County, Nevada, and surrounding areas.

Palmer, who has extensive undeveloped coal mining interest, wants to abolish carbon pricing, slash taxed, and wants cars to have 25 per cent ethanol by 2020.

He's also received $ 264,106 from mining interests, $ 262,467 from oil and gas, and $ 203,696 from chemical and related manufacturing industries.

Here's hoping it does better than his mining interests, some of which fell almost 50 % over the past year.

Which is why the piabeiros and their families are unlikely to welcome environmentally disastrous timber, cattle ranching, and mining interests that would pollute their river with silt, dung, or toxic metals.

Dug and his friends are kicked out of the valley by Lord Nooth's mining interests, and Dug realizes the only way to get his home back is to challenge Lord Nooth's champion football team to a match.

Farmers, ranchers and other food growers along with food producers, petroleum companies who either drill for oil or natural gas or refine these products - or both, financial institutions with enormous holdings in treasuries, equities or currencies, mining interests and their buyers - all these areas of production and distribution employ futures trading spreads from time to time as an important aspect of their businesses.

Farmers, ranchers and other food growers along with food producers, petroleum companies who either drill for oil or natural gas or refine these products — or both, financial institutions with enormous holdings in treasuries, equities or currencies, mining interests and their buyers — all these areas of production and distribution employ spreads from time to time as an important aspect of their businesses.

Off of the recent financings, they are looking to explore their mining interests.

While foreigners, corporations, and wealthy individuals are allowed to give freely to all political parties, it turns out that fossil fuel and mining interested are betting nearly exclusively on the BC Liberals.

ProPublica's Joaquin Sapien writes that the reversal will clear the new for a new measure that environmental groups are rightly calling a «gift to mining interests»: the ability to dispose of leftover rocks and dirt from mountaintop mining (a practice Bush officials have allowed to expand in recent years) by flagrantly violating the landmark Clean Water Act.

The appeals court ruling is significant, as it overturned a lower court that had ruled in favor of the agency and the coal mining interests.

CPP is loathed by most Republicans, some Democrats, industry associations and business groups, utilities, coal companies, and mining interests.

Apparently more interested in protecting the coal - mining interests in his own state, Mr. McConnell ignores these settled facts and uses what he sees as the only remaining option: Secede from our «clean air» union.

On one side are the transnational corporations, agribusiness, and mining interests that promote the destruction of our forests and water sources in the name of a «progress» that benefits only the owners of capital.

Often the mining interests are able to use their connections to national politicians to force through their mine proposals.

If you think that financial incentive is a problem with climate scientists do you think that skeptical climate science is funded by oil and mining interests?

Protecting our transboundary waterways and places like Bristol Bay, the Chuckchi and Beaufort Seas, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and mining interests are critical to ensuring the sustainability of the Arctic and the world.

ROSS GELBSPAN: And the money basically came from coal interests, from mining interests, from some oil companies.

Bruno Van Peteghem worked against time and mining interests to protect New Caledonia's reefs from destruction.

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Fortunately, the House is getting ready to take up a bill introduced by Chairman of the Resources Committee Nick Rahall (D - WV), H.R. 2262, which would finally put an end to the mining interests» priority status.

Ignoring its own scientific study, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that dumping debris from coal mining into mountain streams doesn't conflict with the Clean Water Act — a reversal that clears the way for a new Bush administration rule that critics call a gift to mining interests.

Larry Innes (with J. Olthuis), «Recognition, Affirmation and Reconciliation in the Creative Resolution Of Disputes Between Aboriginal Peoples and Mining Interests» (Paper presented at the Aboriginal Law Conference, Pacific Business and Law Institute, October 4, 2006).