Sentences with phrase «rural landowners in»

This survey of conservation activity among rural landowners in Upstate New York considered a range of possible predictors such as gender, age, education, political ideology, and beliefs about the environment.

While counter-messages from the oil industry and environmental groups set the tone internationally, opposition to the pipeline by a handful of rural landowners in Nebraska is what ended up tying the pipeline project in the courts.

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When the PCs abandoned plans to raise royalties, the Wildrose honed in on property rights and stirred up a considerable amount of fear and resentment among rural landowners, who were mostly traditional PC voters.

He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»

The landowners have immense political clout and in the 1980s formed a political party, the Rural Democratic Union (UDR), to defend their rights.

Still, it is an affecting story, thanks in large part to Loach's long - standing empathy for the downtrodden, in this case the rural folk of County Leitrim, who find themselves kept down by imperious landowners and the Holy Mother Church.

In Part 6 of this series, I critiqued Christopher Lepczyk's paper Landowners and cat predation across rural - to - urban landscapes, published in 200In Part 6 of this series, I critiqued Christopher Lepczyk's paper Landowners and cat predation across rural - to - urban landscapes, published in 200in 2003.

Here, I'm going to untangle some of Lepczyk's own PhD work: Landowners and cat predation across rural - to - urban landscapes, published in 2003.

Cirera has spent three years travelling through South America to give soy and the uncharismatic workings of agriculture a face, «along several trips I visited rural areas in those countries - leading exporters of soya, corn and beef - meeting with landowners, labourers, activists, jobless farmers and those affected by toxic pesticides put on the land, to understand and illustrate the complexities of land issues and its effects on the local communities.»

The Nature Conservancy works with landowners, communities, and governments in Mexico to promote low - carbon rural development through the design and implementation of improved policy and practice in agriculture, ranching, and forestry.

In addition to significant environmental benefits, wind energy is delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax revenues, payments to farmers and landowners, local business opportunities and community vibrancy funds in rural communities across CanadIn addition to significant environmental benefits, wind energy is delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in new tax revenues, payments to farmers and landowners, local business opportunities and community vibrancy funds in rural communities across Canadin new tax revenues, payments to farmers and landowners, local business opportunities and community vibrancy funds in rural communities across Canadin rural communities across Canada.

Wind energy projects will also provide significant economic benefits to rural communities in Alberta through property tax payments to municipalities and lease payments to landowners.

Walton believes allowing landowners in the rural parts of Isabella County to lease land to build wind turbines is a matter of property rights.

The use of wood provides substantial environmental benefits, provides incentives for private landowners to maintain forest land, and provides a critical source of jobs in rural America.»

I've spoken with a landowner in the rural area of Saratoga, California, who owns a single parcel with more land than he knows what to do with, and I asked him why doesn't he build an MDU or some such,...

Richard also has extensive experience of rural matters and regularly acts for landowners in their dealings with agricultural occupiers.

This made some sense in a rural, agrarian society where landowners might own large tracts of land.

I also get involved in rural land development transactions which include the preparation of promotion agreements and option agreements, having acted for both landowners and developers in various matters.

James MacMaster is a salesperson with Rickerd Realty in North Glengarry, Ont., and a past vice-president of the Ontario Landowners, a rural property rights advocacy organization with 16,000 memberships across Ontario.

Jamie MacMaster is a salesperson with Rickerd Realty in North Glengarry, Ont., and vice-president of the Ontario Landowners, a rural property rights advocacy organization with 16,000 memberships across Ontario.