Aera has not been involved in oil production at Banning Ranch, but as a land owner has been named in several environmental orders dealing with the dumping of oil waste, the destruction of wetlands and wildlife habitat and the drilling of unpermitted wells.
Liquidators of Linc are challenging in court an environmental protection order (EPO) for the company to fund rehabilitation of alleged serious contamination of farmland around its trial plant near Chinchilla, west of Brisbane.
"We put in effect an environmental protection order [EPO] 14 to ensure this happens," she says.
The goal of the CHARGE study is to understand causes of autism and DD, both genetic and environmental, in order to reduce their incidence in the future.
In 2006 the government of Gabon, having discovered that Sinopec, another Chinese state-owned oil firm, did not have the required environmental permits, ordered it to halt a big drilling project in a national park.
He believes the story appeals chiefly to preschoolers who are engaged in "cleanliness training, maintaining environmental and behavioral order, and distress about disruption of order".
The sustainable development goals will need to look behind the symptoms to tackle the structural causes or drivers of poverty, inequality, social injustice and environmental degradation in order to create conditions for an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable future.
(Note that the representation going on here is good old first-order representation of environmental features, not higher-order as in the "higher-order representation" theories of awareness).
