Sentences with phrase «protects mining interests»

Very recently, says Acuña, the government promised to send police patrols to visit her property on occasion, but she feels this is far from enough — and far less than the constant police presence that protects mining interests.

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«He's got a great record on the environment and, for the past eight years, he's been a great partner of mine in protecting the interests of the East End.»

Recent spikes in the price of uranium — perhaps due to renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels as global warming makes its presence felt — have led to a surge in applications for new uranium mining permits on otherwise protected federal lands.

Apparently more interested in protecting the coal - mining interests in his own state, Mr. McConnell ignores these settled facts and uses what he sees as the only remaining option: Secede from our «clean air» union.

Protecting our transboundary waterways and places like Bristol Bay, the Chuckchi and Beaufort Seas, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and mining interests are critical to ensuring the sustainability of the Arctic and the world.

For his work to protect the rainforests of Gabon from mining interests that threatened to destroy those areas, Mr. Ona received the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa.

By lodging a caution, the party with the benefit with the mines and minerals («the Beneficiary») ensures that the Land Registry will notify the Beneficiary when an application for first registration of the land is made, allowing the opportunity for an objection to be made to such an application and protect the Beneficiary's interest by entering a notice in the Land Register.

It is the entitlement to native title that gives rise to a right to have that property interest protected from mining activities, either through negotiation, or through application to a court.

Time and attention needs to be given to ensuring traditional owners understand their rights and interests within the native title system, such as procedural rights to comment on or object to future act processes under the future act regime, the right to negotiate in relation to the grant of mining permits, the exercise of native title rights, and the right to protect such rights from breach through common law remedies.

Previous Native Title Reports have commented on the Commonwealth's respondent funding scheme, 81 noting its effect in hardening the positions of those who already have their interests protected in any event, 82 and its seeming encouragement of litigation over negotiation.83 During the consultations, an NTRB in Queensland expressed frustration at the inequality created when mining and other companies are financed directly by the Attorney - General, putting NTRBs (and therefore the traditional owners they represent), with limited funding as described above, at a disadvantage when appearing in arbitration hearings about the doing of future acts.