Sentences with phrase «poison the water supply»

Sanders said the pipeline could poison water supplies and create more reliance on natural gas when the state should be focused on renewable energy supplies.

It is their job to ride into small rural communities, buy up the drilling rights for less than they're worth, and say little about any possible environmental damage, such as dead livestock, poisoned water supplies and soils that have been rendered infertile.

Kefka, however, committed genocide by knowingly poisoning the water supply of Doma (which also killed a bunch of his own men), hurled his emperor off of a floating continent, and changed the face of the earth just because he felt like it.

It tears apart communities, poisons water supplies, pollutes the air and destroys our nation's natural heritage — while only making the climate crisis worse.

Not exact matches

After a series of incidents where coal mines poisoned local water supplies, the rule was written to force mining companies not to begin new projects without first developing a plan to restore affected streams after the coal is hauled out of the earth.

Environmentalist groups and farmers are becoming allies in their concern for tainted and dwindling water supplies, chemical poisoning, urban encroachment and other issues.

If you are not involved at your local and / or state level, expect that your property will soon loose all its value and the water supply throughout this state will become forever poisoned.

Television news crews and print reporters are an almost daily presence on the town's main thoroughfare, Route 22, and men, women and children unaccustomed to the spotlight are growing tired of once again being asked to describe how they feel about the poison in their water supply.

State health officials also noted times when studies have backed up residents» concerns, like a 2012 investigation that showed increased leukemia among men in Liberty, Sullivan County, after a gasoline additive poisoned the village's water supply sometime before 1992.

These poisons, which periodically and fatally contaminate the water supplies of wild and domestic animals, can also harm humans.

Smith had also investigated evidence of similar poisoning in Antofagasta, a Chilean port city that in 1958 had switched from well water to a cheaper supply sluicing down from the Andes.

Polystyrene (a.k.a. Styrofoam) ~ an environmental disaster which has been releasing cancer - causing benzene into our environment for over 60 years, in greater and greater amounts... non of this noxious plastic will breakdown and will continue to poison our planet, soil & water supply forever.

Yes, consuming rice in Bangladesh would likely increase one's risk of Arsenic poisoning as well as cancer, but that's because the water supply contained toxic levels of Asi, not because of the rice.

As I stated in this previous article, much of the Bangladesh water supply is loaded with arsenic and up until the mid-1990s, little could be done to treat dying arsenic poisoning patients.

Are dandelions and flies such an impediment to our wellbeing that we are willing to risk poisoning our families, not to mention contaminating our water supply?

We are constantly bombarded with poisons in our air, water and food supply.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Others include poisoning of water supplies, high levels of atmospheric ash, crop damage, and disruption to transport.

These people turned the water supply into poison, people dying a slow death from cancer.

Many could end up in waste dumps in poor communities in Asia and Africa and poison drinking water supplies.

Could be caused by disruption of electricity supply, poisoning of water supply, or long severe drought combined with poor management of water storages.

The Royal Society has become a host for Eugenicist Paul Erlich who has advocated poisoning of water supplies with a contraceptive with the antidote only available to the politically favoured.

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Residents of Flint, Michigan, hope lawsuits and criminal prosecutions will hold decision - makers accountable for the poisoning of their water supply.»

Weinberg points out that lead in the water supply may have different consequences than lead in paint, given that people can take steps to reduce the risk of poisoning due to water contamination.

In fact, however, the Flint River was so corrosive it ate away at the pipes in the city, causing lead to leach into the water supply, poisoning the city's residents — including 9,000 children younger than 6.

(TNS)-- The recent news about high lead levels in the Flint, Mich., water supply has raised concerns about lead poisoning in general.