Sentences with phrase «potential damage to the environment»

Prosecutors on Poland's Baltic coast have opened a probe into potential damage to the environment of the Bay of Gdansk after the sewage system in this coast city malfunctioned and the refuse was dumped into the bay.

At the same time, unmitigated consumption of fossil fuels to power our energy needs is problematic from the perspective of both fuel sustainability and potential damage to the environment.

Not exact matches

You would think that the only source of employment in Alberta is oil — yet the clean energy sector provides more jobs than pipelines and doesn't contribute to exposure to poisons and toxins with the potential for long term damage to the environment.

Corruption, damage to the local environment, and cultural and political insensitiveness are all the potential risks that would undermine China's efforts to push out the grand vision that pledges to be implemented based on mutual respects and mutual cooperation.

In 2010 and 2011, Ad Astra, an association of Romanian scientists, and the Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation sent petitions in response to the project's potential damaging effects on the environment.

«If there were a long term and significant increase in the pollutant content of the atmosphere either of particles or of carbon dioxide, the potential damage to the global environment could be severe,» he said.

Anticipating a proliferation of nanoproducts, researchers hope to get a leg up on the potential dangers of the tiny particles spreading into the environment, where their minute size might let them enter and damage living tissue.

The debate became so heated at one point that Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D — Ohio), who called the hearing, snapped at Hoover for interrupting David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany, State University of New York, as he argued there was enough evidence to warrant more scrutiny and a government warning of potential damage.

Unique ninja abilities: Use your Ninja Vision to detect and analyze potential enemy weak points, secret paths, and hidden information within the environment, but be careful, as you are susceptible to extra damage while using your vision.

I think that wind and solar energy have the potential to eventually compete with fossil fuels, if fossil fuels have to pay the full price for whatever damage they do to the environment.

The potential for hydro power in Australia is quite small, and if we dam rivers to get more hydro that will be much more damaging to the environment than will wind power developments.

It highlights the potential damage certain working environments can cause to a person's health — in this video cumulative back strain — and is carefully layered with expert information from one of the firm's solicitors.

In the current legal environment, this usually has to be decided on a case - by - case basis depending on the specific circumstances, in particular the type of illegal content, the accuracy of the notice and the potential damage caused.