Sentences with word «roadbuilding»

We noted earlier that there was a glorious great leap forward in solar roadbuilding in China, with the opening of a 2 - kilometre (1.2 mile) stretch of photovoltaics covered in some form of transparent concrete.

«If we increase taxes on the highest incomes, scrap expensive and irrelevant projects like Trident, transfer money from roadbuilding to public transport and get tough on tax avoidance and evasion, we could afford a major public investment programme that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs while transforming the economy to help tackle climate change.

These include roadbuilding and maintenance, the heat island effect of all those parking lots, the water and ecosystem effects and more.

The underlying issue is easy to grasp: from the 18th Century to the present, these lakebed sediments have been progressively contaminated by nearby farming and roadbuilding activities.

Every penny of spending will have to be tallied and reported — this would severely limit campaigns such as those run by Hope not Hate against BNP candidates or local grassroots campaigns such as those against hospital closures or roadbuilding.

But such tedious field work has enabled researchers to show that logging and roadbuilding can stress out the spotted owl, a threatened species that lives in old - growth forests in the Northwestern United States.

Logging, roadbuilding, and other development damages the forest's ability to produce clean water.