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General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict. From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of naturalresources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating.”
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org, a climate advocacy group, found that from 1996 to 2014 Enbridge pipelines in the U.S. The tribe also is challenging state permits issued by the Wisconsin Department of NaturalResources for Enbridge to construct a 41-mile bypass across protected forest and wetlands. And its owned by a Canada-based company, Enbridge Inc.,
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The parcel will be transferred to the Game Commission for addition to State Game Land 91 and adjoins the 50,000-acre Pinchot State Forest managed by the Department of Conservation and NaturalResources.
We felt it was necessary because [the Minnesota Department of NaturalResources] plays an important role in ensuring our water resources or resources are protected, and that there’s a sustainable water supply available for future generations.” — Katie Smith, the department’s director of ecological and water resources.
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2021, Martin and Gates 2014, and Uribe et al. Irrigation guide, NaturalResources Conservation Service, USDA. Use of polymer sealants for mitigating canal seepage Some field research studies performed in the US, Pakistan, and Chile show that synthetic polymer sealants can have great potential to reduce canal seepage (Lund et al.
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Cruden , Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and NaturalResources Division of the U.S. Senate on December 16, 2014. Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Department of Justice.”
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