In 2006, the governor signed legislation that raised benchmarks for the production of wind power and promoted environmentally sensitive siting for transmission lines.
LEED – The U.S. Green Building Council provides LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for buildings or communities designed and built with environmentally sensitive siting, energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, sustainable materials, improved indoor environmental quality, innovative technology and strategies, and stewardship of resources.
"Once the project is complete the machine will be used by NRW (Natural Resources Wales) to restore other similar sites across Wales". All of the work carried out under this contract will be on Special Areas of Conservation - environmentally sensitive sites legally protected for their environmental interest.
United Utilities, the incumbent supplier, sought permission to extract more water from environmentally sensitive sites.
When I began filming my documentary You've Been Trumped in 2009, bulldozers swiftly moved on to an environmentally sensitive site and began ripping up trees and burying them in crater-like holes.
The fence construction and related roads and equipment for detecting illegal border crossers directly affect 200 to 300 miles of Interior Department land along the fence route and some of the most environmentally sensitive sites in the region.
However, it is essential that managers understand the nature of all relevant components of an environmentally sensitive site, in order that appropriate management strategies are devised.
Before Red Fire filed a subdivision map, the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit agency that is contracted by the town to acquire environmentally sensitive sites, "asked the owners if they'd entertain an offer from the town for the property, and they agreed," Mr. Weichbrodt said.
The project's new CEO, Rich Leonard, says that about half the additional $35.5 million results from NSF's estimate of what will be needed to obtain the required permits on a handful of environmentally sensitive sites in Hawaii and California.
The project team has to not only tackle traditional management problems but those that specifically occur as a result of the remote locations of these often environmentally sensitive sites (Kestle 2009; Kestle and London 2002, 2003).
Monitoring programmes, specifically at environmentally sensitive sites such as the protected Lake Karla, should include the establishment of baseline histopathological data for the endemic and bio-indicator fish species of the region.
