Sentences with phrase «power plant environments»

A results oriented Military Veteran and Facilities Management Professional with demonstrated accomplishments in facilities, manufacturing, and power plant environments.

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Whether it's fish farms and the dirty pact Campbell has with Alcan in the northwest, fish farms up and down the coast, proposed LNG plants on the north coast, the wiping out of the unique ecology at Eagleridge in West Vancouver, the transmission lines in Tsawwassen, the Gateway project, especially though not exclusively in Delta, the abandonment of the Cambie Street merchants, private power smashing the environment around the province or the stealthy but persistent privatization of BC Hydro, the premier has enraged British Columbians not just for what he's done, but for his callous indifference to the wishes of people.

We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

In his summary of findings, Dr. Stopford stated, «Mercury is ubiquitous in the environment being generated both by man - made activities (such as coal - fired power plants) and by natural phenomenon (such as volcanoes).

For example, there are lengthy, detailed and complicated laws that explain what public utilities that operate power plants must do in order to protect the environment from pollution.

The agency, tasked with protecting the state's environment and public health, denied air quality permits for two 700 - megawatt, coal - fired power plants proposed by Sunflower Electric for Holcomb, a municipality in the southwestern corner of the state.

New coal power plants won't find a home in Kansas, according to the state's Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).

The sentence marked with an asterisk was changed from «In fact, fly ash — a by - product from burning coal for power — and other coal waste contains up to 100 times more radiation than nuclear waste» to «In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant — a by - product from burning coal for electricity — carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.»

Cheap, plentiful coal is expected to fuel power plants for the foreseeable future, but can we keep it from devastating the environment?

But for industry and policymakers who make sweeping decisions that affect the environment — such as whether to drill for oil on protected lands or build new nuclear power plants — the financial stakes, potential consequences, and complexity of the choices defy a simple weighing of pros and cons.

Carbon dioxide captured from the smokestacks of power plants could one day provide the raw material for plastics, says our environment correspondent.

LONDON — For those concerned about the impact of coal - burning power plants on the world's environment, the good news seems to have been arriving thick and fast lately.

One reason for this push is the consequences of the alternatives: pollution from fossil - fueled power plants shortens the life span of as many as 30,000 Americans a year; coal and hydraulic fracturing threaten the environment and water supplies; and oil dependence undermines the nation's energy security.

So Cordatos and UTC's idea is not to use the enzyme itself, but to master its chemistry and «use it in the unnatural environment of power plant flue gas,» Cordatos said.

That's one takeaway from a new ranking of power plants released by Environment America.

Since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the discharge of radioactive cesium, especially 137Cs (half - life: 30.17 years), into the environment has become a serious environmental problem.

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

When river or sea - water is used for power plant cooling, it gets released back into the environment at a higher temperature, a problem known as thermal pollution, which can affect aquatic organisms.

But Paul Hatchwell, an environment consultant, wrote recently in a report for the World Wide Fund for Nature that both the Sizewell site and the Bradwell nuclear power plant in Essex, built on marshes by the Blackwater estuary, are «poorly defended».

«Small - scale gold mining contributes to one third of the mercury released into the environment today,» says physicist Stephan Robinson of Green Cross Switzerland — Blacksmith's partner in the research and ranking — or nearly as much as coal burning by power plants.

Leiden archaeologist Robert Power discovered that Neanderthals must have consumed regularly plants as food even in this cold and dry environment.

Regulating power plant emissions would avert 100,000 asthma attacks and 2,100 heart attacks in the CPP's first year, he said at the time, adding that shifting the U.S. power supply to renewables is «one of the best things we can do for our economy, our health and our environment.»

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to finalize its controversial first rule on reducing mercury emissions from power plants this month, and delegates from the United Nations Environment Programme met in late February to discuss an international convention limiting mercury use and emissions.

NuScale's Power Module and power plant are designed to protect the environment against extreme evPower Module and power plant are designed to protect the environment against extreme evpower plant are designed to protect the environment against extreme events.

Okay, I was saying that I got into this whole movement because I didn't want to kill animals and then I found about all the other benefits to eating a plant based diet and how good it was for the environment, but you know, I focus on so many different things in trying to get the message, I spend the last hour with Dr. Pam Popper talking about the power of plant foods on health because I'm looking for any angle I can to attract people to not killing animals.

The process of creating electricity in a power plant emits mercury into the environment in about equal amounts to what is in a Compact Flourescent and what it will save in it's lifetime of use.

Above, watch over half an hour of hands - on gameplay from Grow Up, including a look at the game's enormous new environment, BUD's new built - in power glider and ball modes, the new ability to spawn any plant you encounter using the Floradex 3000, and more.

The property pays respect to its amazing environment, using wells and natural springs for water and taking 100 % of its electrical energy from the Miravalles Geothermal Power Plant, among many other sustainable practices.

Past group shows and screenings include: Rêve du Pierre, curated by Alexandra Fau, Centre Pompidou, Paris (screening)(2016); Night Walk, with Erin Shirreff, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA (2015); A Night of Philosophy, Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY (Screening)(2015); The Daily Show, Bureau, New York NY (2015); The Built Environment: Lower Side in Istanbul, Mixer, Istanbul, Turkey (2014); It Narratives: The Movement of Objects as Information, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA (2014); A Tale of Two Islands: Beatrice Gibson with Alex Waterman, and Frank Heath, High Line Art, NY, NY (2014); Two Hours Two Minutes, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2014); Kool - Aid Wino, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA (2013); Matter Out of Place, Kitchen, NY, NY (2012); Somebody has stolen our tent, Simon Preston Gallery, NY, NY (2012); The Way Things Go (Part 3), Frutta, Rome, Italy (2012); Single Channel, Soho House, Miami, FL, USA (2011); Forcemeat, Wallspace, NY, NY (2011), and Suddenly: Where We Live Now, Cooley Gallery — Reed College, Portland, OR and Pomona College Museum of Art (2008, 2009).

Biennale de Belleville, curated by Marie Maertens, Paris The Built Environment, curated by Kathleen Madden, Mixer, Istanbul It Narrative: The Movement of Objects as Information, curated by Zanna Gilbert and Brian Droitcour, Franklin St. Works, Stamford, CT A Tale Of Two Islands: Beatrice Gibson with Alex Waterman, and Frank Heath, High Line Art, Channel 14, New York, NY Catch Me If You Can: Virus and Catastrophe, Black Iris Gallery, Richmond, VA Two Hours Two Minutes, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr, Images Festival, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Invasive Species, Film Sector, Art Basel, Miami, FL

But the windmills killing birds does far less damage to the environment than a comparably sized (in terms of power output) coal or nuclear power plant.

If we were to live out a natural life, we wouldn't have created such infrastructure (power plants, high - pollution industries, etc.) that has devastated the environment at many times in history.

The eventual popularity of the opposition to Con Ed's plans for a power plant at Storm King then owes something to the relationship residents had toward the larger Hudson River and environment in general.

I worked in several different types of power plants for about 30 years, and there is no «good» way to generate, transmit, distribute, or store electrical energy without offending somebody, without upsetting the environment, or without following the basic laws of physics.

Today they are attacking coal power plants, tomorrow they are euthanising your family because they think it is good for the environment.

Today, a fact finding team of five non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-- the Sierra Club, 350.org, Carbon Market Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pacific Environment — released a scathing report, The U.S. Export - Import Bank's Dirty Dollars, on the rampant human rights abuses at the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im) financed Sasan coal - fired power plant and mine in Singrauli, India.

From mining through final disposal of waste from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human health.

Since the mid-1980s, the US Department of Energy has invested over $ 3 billion in power plant «clean coal technologies,» but mine fires burn on, venting carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methane in a wind poisonous to humans and the environment.

When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.

As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

Grassroots groups, such as ICKD (Iskenderun Environmental Protection Association), Adana CETKO (Environmental Protection Association), and East Mediterranean Environmental Platform have been struggling against coal power plants, mines and other coal infrastructure to protect rights to live in a healthy environment has been going on since mid-90s.

[7] According to a 2009 report by Environment America, «America's Biggest Polluters,» the Monroe Power Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2007.

In 1995, he received the Goldman Environmental Prize for Asia as a result of his leadership in protecting the Korean people and their environment from the destruction caused by nuclear power plants.

Renewable energy is clean, sustainable, non-polluting, reduces our dependence on fossil fuels, improves the health of communities surrounding power plants, and protects the natural environment.

«You can build 100 coal - fired power plants and don't have to have higher CO2 emissions,» said the environment minister.

[18] Gina McCarthy, «Oversight Hearing: EPA's Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants,» testimony before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, June 23, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNO-lRrYqf8 (accessed March 8, 2016).

And by reducing the amount of energy you use, you prevent greenhouse gases from being emitted at power plants, which helps create a cleaner, healthier environment.

Power plants are not required to beneficially reuse coal combustion residuals (CCRs), but we recognize the importance this practice has on the environment.

For example Environment Canada is planning on telling coal plants (and even different parts of a single coal plant) how much power they can produce.