Sentences with phrase «potential environmental water»

Environmental Water Delivery: Campaspe River, Environmental water delivery: Loddon River, Environmental water delivery: Lower Goulburn River and Environmental water delivery: Lower Broken Creek collate current knowledge of the operational and administrative arrangements for the delivery of environmental water in their respective catchments, and provide an overview of the environmental assets and potential environmental water use options.

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Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS Discovery District, the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Ontario's advanced energy and water technologies in CWater Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Ontario's advanced energy and water technologies in Cwater technologies in China.

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The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

If you wish to provide suggestions for Commonwealth environmental water use please contact us at [email protected] send us your suggestion by visiting: Your suggestions for potential water use options.

In many F&A industries, maintaining high standards of environmental sustainability (e.g. reduced water, energy, waste and land footprint) and animal welfare have already transitioned from being potential differentiators to accepted costs of doing business.

Input to the potential watering actions for 2017 — 18 was received via the Environmental Watering Advisory Group (EWAG) meetings organised and chaired by the North Central and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authwatering actions for 2017 — 18 was received via the Environmental Watering Advisory Group (EWAG) meetings organised and chaired by the North Central and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management AuthWatering Advisory Group (EWAG) meetings organised and chaired by the North Central and Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authorities.

If you wish to provide suggestions for Commonwealth environmental water use please contact us at [email protected] or send us your suggestion by visiting: Your suggestions for potential water use options.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office and Murray - Darling Basin Authority presented a poster on the classification project and its potential applications at the 2014 International River Symposium.

It outlines water delivery scenarios, carryover potential and trade options to optimise water use across water years and to maximise environmental outcomes across the Murray - Darling Basin.

The most recent study of Australasian business attitudes to environmental issues, commissioned by CST Wastewater Solutions, finds industry is convinced about the potential financial viability of sustainable energy and water initiatives, if sanguine about the failure rate in Australia and New Zealand so far.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

The SGEIS, or Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, is a review of potential regulations for hydrofracking, a natural gas extraction process that involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to access the gas underneath.

A preliminary review of the application indicates there is the potential for significant adverse environmental impacts associated with the construction and operation of the pipeline, including, but not limited to, impacts to hundreds of acres of forest, regulated water bodies and wetlands.»

The findings reflect the major potential sources of environmental pollution along the Rhine, such as metropolitan areas and industrial plants, waste water treatment plants and weirs, as well as the particular current conditions.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

Tests conducted last week of a novel technology that can greatly accelerate the combustion of crude oil floating on water demonstrated its potential to become an effective tool for minimizing the environmental impact of future oil spills.

These ice - like water and methane structures encapsulate so much methane that many researchers view them as both a potential energy resource and an agent for environmental change.

Doctors and pharmacists should keep in mind the potential for unintended exposure, said Christian Daughton of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, comparing drug waste in water to doctors prescribing a cocktail of unknown medications to healthy people at random.

This has environmental impacts and potential future impacts on water availability for the entire country.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has assembled a special team to assess the risk of water pollution and to investigate potential problems at the undisclosed number of nuclear reactors in Sichuan, where uranium fuel is produced.

The research, published online in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, sheds light on a poorly understood aspect of groundwater recharge with purified recycled water, namely the potential mobilization of arsenic.

Issuance of this license concludes a six - year process that examined the technical, safety and environmental aspects of the potential unit, a 1,500 - MW GEH Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR).

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

The TEA analysis will consider the sustainability for hydrogen production including land and water usage, and the potential environmental impacts of placing a hydrogen plant.

A new report by the Environmental Working Group found chromium - 6 — a potential carcinogen you might recognize from the highly publicized Erin Brockovich case — in water supplies in all 50 states.

These toxins are many and varied and can come from a wide variety of sources, including chemicals and toxins in your food and water, pharmaceutical drugs, environmental chemicals (pesticides, etc.), alcohol residues, various forms of pollution and radiation and many other potential toxins.

Companies that can help address the world's most critical social and environmental problems (e.g., clean air, clean water) have the potential to grow their earnings.

So there's huge potential to reduce your personal energy and water use, and therefore your environmental footprint, by simply greening your laundry habits.

But environmental groups say the city's efforts so far are barely tapping the potential water savings.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

They report in Environmental Research Letters that they examined 740 different production systems for 90 different foods, to calculate levels of land use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), fossil fuel energy use, the nutrient runoff that leads to eutrophication or «dead zones» in lakes and rivers, and the potential for acidification of the waters.

Among the most serious Earth science and environmental policy issues confronting society are the potential changes in the Earth's water cycle due to climate change.

Based on international standards (ISO 14025), EPDs have worldwide applicability and include information about product environmental impacts such as resources, energy use and efficiency, global warming potential, emissions to air, soil and water, and waste generation.

[10], [11] Recognizing the potential health and environmental impacts on local water sources, the EPA is studying water impacts of hydrofracking on gas shale production.

Water, Wildlife, Earthquakes: Environmental groups, concerned citizens, and politicians have raised a number of concerns about the potential impacts of the Keystone XL extension.

Continuing this history, the Katoomba Marketplace Latin America meeting will explore opportunities for investment in green infrastructure through funds managed by water utilities by bringing experts from around world to share financing models from the water and other environmental sectors, and to discuss the potential for scaling investment in green infrastructure in Latin America.

«[B] urning fossil fuels has improved the lives of millions in the developed world by helping solve their biggest environmental challenges, purified their water and air, made their cities and homes more sanitary and kept them safe from potential catastrophic climate change.»

The Energy Commission will continue to monitor the potential environmental impacts associated with shale gas extraction, including carbon footprint, volume of water use and risk of groundwater contamination, air pollution, and potential chemical leakage.

Washington, D.C. — New home water heater efficiency standards proposed yesterday by the Obama Administration will save energy and money for U.S. households and reduce global warming and other harmful emissions; but they fall short of their potential according to a broad coalition of energy - efficiency, consumer and environmental organizations.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

via: International Herald Tribune Oil Shale, Tar Sands Dept of Interior Hearts Oil Shale: Has «Great Potential» Salazar Says Oil on Water: Shale Oil Industry Mixing It Up With Aid of Federal Bailout Package Economic, Environmental Costs of Developing Tar Sands & Oil Shale «Unthinkable»: WWF - UK

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified over 600 coal ash sites and documented at least 67 proven or potential cases of surface water or groundwater contamination from coal ash in at least 23 states.

EPA said that the draft environmental analysis needed further work on a range of issues, ranging from the basic need for the pipeline given U.S. clean energy and carbon pollution reduction goals to its potential impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, wetlands, migratory birds, public water supplies and minority communities.

This is bound to ruffle a few feathers, so here are Professor Jacobson's comments on how he came to this conclusions: Jacobson Considered a Wide Range of Environmental Impacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

Criteria Description Fish Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to fish (both saltwater and freshwater) Daphnia Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to Daphnia (invertebrate aquatic organisms) Algae Toxicity Measure of the acute toxicity to aquatic plants Persistence / Biodegradation Rate of degradation for a substance in the environment (air, soil, or water) Bioaccumulation Potential for a substance to accumulate in fatty tissue and magnify up the food chain Climatic relevance Measure of the impact a substance has on the climate (e.g., ozone depletion, global warming, etc.) Other Any additional characteristic (e.g., soil organism toxicity, WGK water classification, etc.) relevant to the overall evaluation but not included in the previous criteria 1.3.3 Material Class Criteria The following material classes are flagged due to the concern that at some point in their life cycle they may have negative impacts on human and environmental health.

What are the potential health implications of the connections between urban environmental degradation (standing polluted water, lead paint and asbestos in buildings) and the health of animals and humans in cities?

I am confident that my ability to develop and assess land and water potential and provide environmental land use planning, with strong communication and organizational skills will produce best results for your establishment.

Able to adequately assess land and water potential and assess alternative usage for environmental stability and preservation.