Sentence examples for serious environmental impacts from inspiring English sources

The sentencing council's draft guidelines direct that for deliberate pollution incidents by large companies and with the most serious environmental impacts, the standard fine should be £750,000 but could be varied between £250,000 and £2m depending on circumstances.

Two DUP ministers were strangely wrong-footed when some of the context for a planned visitor's centre at the Giant's Causeway raised questions it appeared that neither had fully considered about a private proposal they had been "minded to approve", in light of serious environmental impacts clearly identified in a high-level Unesco report.

The project "will produce the most serious environmental impacts of any dam plan in the Amazon," declares Glenn Switkes of the International Rivers Network, a green lobby group.He speaks for what looks like a feeble coalition of local interests and global NGOs, hardly an obstacle to the national quest for energy.

Energy consumption also has serious environmental impacts in terms of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.

Chromium pollution is one of the most serious environmental impacts in aqueous medium as it is non-biodegradable.

For example, organic compounds and phosphorus released to water, and emissions of nitrogenous compounds to both air and water, are the most serious environmental impacts.

In the major migration cities of China, large numbers of migrants have a serious environmental impact on the ecological environment.

In the chromium tanning process leather consumes 60-80% of the applied chromium salt and the rest is usually discharged into sewage without adequate treatment, causing serious environmental impact.

"Safely evacuating everyone from the platform and adjacent drilling rig, preventing any serious environmental impact and recovering control of the G4 well, is a highly commendable effort from the teams involved.

Mining activities have a serious environmental impact on soils and water streams by generating millions of tons of sulfide-rich tailings (Banks et al. 1997; Younger 1997; Passariello et al. 2002; Younger and Robins 2002; Younger et al. 2002; Romano et al. 2003; Kovács et al. 2006; Bhattacharya et al. 2006).

Despite these serious environmental impact concerns, the NC Ports Authority has failed to meet its obligations under the State Environmental Policy Act or "SEPA", which requires it to prepare a full environmental assessment--and potentially an environmental impact statement--because the project involves the leasing of state land and may significantly affect North Carolina's environment.