Concerns about its environmental, cultural and social impact forced companies and financial backers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to pull out of the project under pressure from public campaigns in 2009.
But in 2008, the Simferopol city council refused to grant final approval for the project, voicing concerns about its environmental impact because the site is near a reservoir.
But for conservationists and human rights activists, the allegations explain why Belo Monte went ahead regardless of concerns about its environmental impact and economic viability.
The land along the Duck River was to have been used for the Columbia Dam project, which was scrapped in 1983 because of concerns about its environmental and budget consequences.
The inevitable release of engineered silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) into aquatic environments has drawn great concerns about its environmental toxicity and safety.
She thought California would be "this progressive paradise" and ran smack into exorbitant housing prices, what she sees as a talk-more-than-action posture by government and a Democratic governor who refused to outlaw fracking, despite concerns about its environmental impact.
Having young children means bucket-and-spade days to Cornish beaches are the best option anyway, but it does seem sad that one of the great social and cultural liberators of our age – affordable aviation – has a large shadow cast over it by very valid concerns about its disproportionate environmental impact.
However, fracking has been linked to some minor earthquakes, and there are concerns about its possible environmental impact.
And not unlike that project, which Chinese officials last month admitted had "urgent problems," the water diversion scheme is increasingly mired in concerns about its cost, its environmental impact and the sacrifices poor people in the provinces are told to make for those in richer cities.
[C11.] Ford to Produce Fewer Excursions Ford said that it would produce fewer Excursion sport utility vehicles during the 2001 model year, but attributed the cutback to weak consumer demand rather than concerns about its safety and environmental problems.
