Sentences with phrase «of environmental processes»

Geoengineering, the deliberate manipulation of environmental processes to counter the effects of climate change, is being considered as a potential last - ditch option to avoid the worst effects of global warming given the challenges of reducing the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Director of the Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes, University Ca'Foscari Venice

I spent most of my time in the resources industry where I worked on computer simulations of environmental processes, particularly hydrology.

The good news, for Enbridge and the federal government anyway, is that they don't really have to; accountability at this stage of the environmental process is primarily intended for the ballot box, not the court room.

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HR departments are perpetually scouring for new incentives, processes, events, and environmental improvements to foster the health and well - being of their employees.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

In a 2012 study, Gerry Angevine and Vanadis Oviedo of the Fraser Institute described «outdated regulatory processes and procedures, unnecessary duplication of federal and provincial government project reviews, and an unwieldy environmental review process.»

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

«Today's historic action by the EPA will finally begin the process of restricting the remaining sources of asbestos, which is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans,» said Sonya Lunder of the Environmental Working Group Action Fund, which studies toxic substances.

WASHINGTON, April 19 The Trump administration this week will begin the environmental review process for oil and gas drilling on a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a region in northern Alaska rich in crude but prized by conservationists.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade is concerned that the announcement by the B.C. government of a further regulatory process around spill response may send a chilling signal about British Columbia's openness for business, attractiveness for foreign investment, and predictability or reliability of our environmental regulatory system.

WASHINGTON The Trump administration this week will begin the environmental review process for oil and gas drilling on a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a region in northern Alaska rich in crude but prized by conservationists.

This process enables Carlyle professionals to more effectively evaluate the operations of a target company, identify the most promising environmental management opportunities and incorporate them into the post-investment management, governance and reporting plans of our portfolio companies.

The Foundation undertook a rigorous due diligence process to evaluate the viability of the Little Sun business model and determined that solar powered lamps can provide enormous environmental and social benefits.

Prentice cited the federal loan guarantee for Newfoundland's Lower Churchill River hydroelectric project as «a wise instrument of industrial policy,» and called for governments to «expedite the regulatory and environmental approval processes for megaprojects.»

Bearing in mind the relatively loose language of the ToR (see definition of «environmental effect» above) and that environmental assessment (EA) is a simply a process for decision - making that does not dictate any particular result, why not consider the GHGs associated with increased oil production and avoid what could be a crucial political and legal objection to the NGP?

The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

According to the official website, FAST - 41, as it's known, «was designed to improve the timeliness, predictability and transparency of the Federal environmental review and authorization process for covered infrastructure projects.»

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), part of the reconciliation process, is one such entity that's notorious for standing in the way of infrastructure and energy projects.

California refineries, the largest purchasers of crude from the Ecuadorian Amazon, would be at least partially responsible for the ensuing environmental destruction, rights violations, and possible ethnocide if they continue to process oil from the Amazon.

«Meanwhile, other jurisdictions are ahead of B.C. in terms of encouraging farming and food processing to support, expand, and sustain their agriculture sector for environmental, health and economic purposes,» said Dix.

The University of Western Ontario was second, guaranteeing students a number of streams entirely dedicated to social and / or environmental impact management: green process engineering, environmental engineering, and biochemical and environmental engineering, among others.

Through process - driven research on financial and impact outcomes of investing and grant - making, Align enables its clients to use their resources to move the needle on the world's greatest environmental and social challenges by building investing and giving strategies that are aligned with its clients personal values.

In that case, a NAFTA tribunal ruled 2 - 1 that an environmental assessment process, which resulted in a U.S. firm being denied a permit to dig a massive quarry in an ecologically sensitive region of Nova Scotia, violated the firm's NAFTA investor protections.

In principal, we support both the technical and environmental rigour of the process and believe the 157 conditions put forth by the NEB offer a comprehensive — yet realistic — standard of pipeline safety.

The company also prohibits construction financing of single - site coal - fired power plants that lack the most advanced environmental control processes.

By: Nadine James 26th April 2018 The process for water use licence applications (WULAs) is improving as a result of an online system being put in place by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), according to SRK Consulting principal environmental scientist Jacky Burke.

New Democrat deputy environment critic Michael Sather noted the Liberals have gutted the environmental assessment process, creating uncertainty on the land base and a lack of trust in government's ability to protect the environment.

ANWR review process: The Trump administration this week will begin the environmental review process for oil and gas drilling on a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a region in northern Alaska rich in crude but prized by conservationists.

By Janet Keeping, Leader of the Green Party of Alberta Alberta's Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (EPEA) sets out a decision making process for review of oilsands and other projects which includes the filing of «Statements of Concern.»

«How can B.C. commit to ramping up this dangerous, polluting industry when the province has just announced that they will be looking at the environmental impacts of the fracking process through their scientific review?»

The state office, in Gainesville, has already approved the eligibility of 103 canals in the Keys and environmental permits from National Oceanic and Atmospheric and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are both in process.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and even the Army Corps of Engineers called for a halt to the process until the permitting procedure could be reviewed.

George Heyman, Sierra Club executive director: «Ms. Clark was part of the B.C. Liberal government which gutted our provincial environmental assessment process a decade ago.

A process theology of nature, in which every occasion of experience has some power of self - determination, is one of the best options for environmental ethics today.

In consequence, therefore, man must first of all be seen as a finite process of becoming, with recognition of his dependence upon environmental factors both natural and historical.

Environmental conditions could be said to be the occasions of change in the activities of the organism; but the decisive thrust of evolutionary change was internal process of a sort.

Is it an outworking of the evolutionary process in which the creature is responding to environmental pressures?

From Whitehead» s vision of reality as informing and informed by insights from biology, Birch and Cobb develop a distinctively «process» environmental ethic.

My aims are (a) to review the major movements that have emerged recently in environmental philosophy, (b) to suggest some of the implications of these movements for creation consciousness, and (c) to show how process theology provides a perspective for integrating the truths of these movements, thereby encouraging creation consciousness.

Whenever action sequences involve competition between different theological views, the role of immediate institutional constraints and environmental resources is likely to be that of influencing the selection process among different ideas.

The process starts with the multitude of environmental objects awaiting unification in a fresh perspective, moves through stages of partial integration, and concludes as a fully determinate synthesis, effected by a concrescence of feelings.

I trust you will see that they are not altogether wrong in their insistence that environmental problems must be dealt with in the process of industrialization rather than through deindustrialization.

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Moreover, this constant process is carried out as Christians wrestle self - consciously with problems of importance, such as the environmental crisis, hunger, poverty, nuclear weapons capable of omnicide, sexism, racism, classism, and anti-Judaism.

The implicit premise behind this «environmental,» i.e., deterministic, analysis is that man is entirely submerged in the cause - and - effect processes of nature.

For instance, as technological innovations become more able to create economic benefits while minimizing, if not eliminating, environmental harm, the integrated web of global economic relationships may help to hasten the process of global «greening.»

It is only the fulfillment of this process, the realization of this aim, that can solve our present material and environmental dilemmas.

We then examine these same dynamics in relation both to environmental processes and to normative articulations of the ultimately real.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.