Sentence examples for environmentally damaging projects from inspiring English sources
It is required under EU law but critics argue that nature cannot be commodified in this way and that, in practice, such schemes often pave the way for environmentally damaging projects.
As he seeks to cut countryside safeguards and make environmentally damaging projects easier to approve, Osborne's rhetoric is, ironically, knocking investor confidence in the UK's valuable and fast-growing clean energy sector (growing at 5 per cent a year and outpacing the anaemic growth in the rest of the economy).
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, environmental groups joined with antispending conservatives to try to end funding for what they considered wasteful, environmentally damaging projects.
Other environmentally damaging projects meanwhile went ahead.
Banks also face reputational risk, should their brand become associated with the financing of a highly environmentally damaging project.
Particularly wasteful or environmentally damaging water projects have sometimes been challenged in Congress, and occasionally defeated.
It never occurred to us that those terrible events would lead to the development of what would soon become known as the World's largest and perhaps most environmentally damaging mega project, and that it would lie in the heart of Canada's vast boreal forest wilderness.
If more cities and towns followed their examples, the need for costly and environmentally damaging water supply projects and desalination infrastructure could be greatly reduced.
An EU official told HuffPost that while some dam projects were environmentally damaging and local consultation had often been absent, not acting would be more harmful.
The World Bank estimates that Nepal's swift-flowing torrents could supply as much as 83,000 megawatts of electricity through such projects, some without costly and environmentally damaging dams, making them one of the largest untapped hydro power resources in the world.
MR. BLUMENTHAL has argued that the BlueOcean project would be safer and less environmentally damaging and deliver more natural gas than Broadwater.
