Sentence examples for for environmental devastation from inspiring English sources

Shell needs to wake up to its responsibility for environmental devastation," he added.

Indigenous peoples in Ecuador and Bolivia had a particularly rousing set of victories, while the people of Cochabamba, Bolivia, astonishingly, defeated U.S.-based Bechtel Corporation's privatization of their water, and Ecuadorans are suing Chevron for environmental devastation in what could be the biggest corporate settlement in history -- $27 billion.

In a press release, GE attacked the EPA proposal as "absurd," arguing that it "charts a course of environmental devastation for the Upper Hudson River for a generation or more".

But environmental groups like Amazon Watch, Conservation International and the World Wildlife Fund and a collection of grass-roots groups have warned of environmental devastation.

Suriname's Krikie Nigi gold camp represents the Platonic ideal of environmental devastation.

The company operating the mine, the Brazilian giant Vale, often criticised for causing environmental devastation, claims it is planning to restore this landscape to its original state.

We must hold governments responsible to one another for remedying current environmental devastation.

Many environmental activists blame the American oil company Chevron for L.A.'s environmental devastation.

In 1971 the Banabans sued the British government for a greater share of royalties from phosphate mining and compensation for the island's environmental devastation.

(Genzlinger) 'Marcellus Shale' (closes on Sunday) Paul Zimet's play with music is about the effects on a New York town of fracking (hydraulic fracturing), where the gas companies' generous checks don't make up for the health and environmental devastation.

The tragic and inevitable result of capitulation to the desire for total dominance is warfare and environmental devastation.