Sentence examples for significant environmental damage from inspiring English sources

It has scarred and eroded the sacred site and may well be causing significant environmental damage.

This was supposedly stopped because they caused significant environmental damage due to methane and deforestation, but we all know it was orchestrated by the synthetic meat companies.

We are disgusted by the conventional meat industry in this country, which raises animals — especially chicken and pigs — in inhumane confinement systems that cause significant environmental damage.

And a recent environmental study by the city's Department of Design and Construction said that building the ball fields would not cause significant environmental damage.

We are looking at significant environmental damage here when the economic benefits for HS2 have not yet been proven satisfactorily".

One example: Kyaukphyu, Myanmar, where a Chinese-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline was pursued in secret, stomped on farmers' property rights and did significant environmental damage.

Significant environmental damages occurred, such as loss of biodiversity and the contamination and degradation of land, water, and air due to toxic substances (UNDP 2014).

Further, the very significant loss of added nitrogen fertilizer to the air and water causes very significant global environmental damage.

They add: "In recent years, shale gas production has transformed the energy market in the US, though at the cost of significant local environmental damage and pollution of water tables.

Fossil fuels are 20th-century dinosaurs – fracking would cause significant local environmental damage, cannot fit within our essential carbon emission limits to avoid catastrophic climate change, and would lock us into future high cost and volatile household energy bills".

Company officials say they do not fear the suit and deny any significant responsibility for environmental damage.