Often the land is in depressed parts of a town, he said, or in odd locations, such as a hillside or an industrial zone.
"Look at that — that's a sizable plume, about 140 parts per billion above the background level of methane," Mr. Rella said as a hillside dotted with Chevron petroleum storage tanks receded in the rearview mirror.
Visibility extends only as far as Bere Alston, on a hillside above the Tamar, and misty woods on the river cliff of Morwellham.
WHAT -- 4-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $599,900 This 81-acre property, at the end of a lane in a quiet valley, has established gardens with peonies, irises, hosta, ferns and phlox as well as a vegetable garden, a hillside covered with lilies and a spring-fed pond.
Cartel recruitment has been ramped up in poor neighbourhoods such as Colonia Independencia, a hillside settlement that confronts Monterrey's government offices from across the Santa Catarina river.
"It's pitiful — there's no mining, so we have no jobs," said a 48-year-old farmer who gave only his surname, Kang, as he hoed a hillside cornfield across a gully from the back of the mine.
On a hot summer day in 2008, a pair of plant disease researchers made an extraordinary discovery as they toured a hillside forest in San Mateo County: a stand of trees that had not been infected by the killer disease known as sudden oak death.
It's a situation that has pitted neighbors against one another in the hillside area for more than a year, as George Abboud sought a hillside development permit for an addition he said believes will beautify and update the neighborhood while providing him a place to "live comfortably".
He explained, excitedly, how 39 years ago the Virgin had appeared to a humble woman named Gavina Romero now known to residents as Mother Salomé on a hillside next to where the town now stands.
Dry stacked rock walls are typically built against a hillside, as it can be used as a tool to prevent soil erosion from ruining a garden [1].
The early chase in "A Good Day to Die Hard" finds McClane borrowing a chunky black Mercedes, launching it off a bridge, and landing on a car transporter, which he then drives down as if it were a hillside, crushing a Porsche and other prize possessions as he goes.
