One important step is establishing a natural resource fund to manage revenue from natural resource development in ways that can aid current and future generations in managing economic transitions.
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According to the Natural Resource Governance Institute's index, six of the 13 high-income countries studied failed to achieve good or satisfactory ratings for the quality of their natural-resource governance.
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For one, volcanic ash isn't the most accessible natural resource.
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The Natural Resource room offers an array of ecosexy titillations.
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And who gets to make money off this natural resource?
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N) CEO John Hess and Pioneer Natural Resource Co (PXD.
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It's a natural resource and we are very proud of it.
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But here we have a natural resource that wasn't being exploited.
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The natural resource extraction industry was not happy with the regulation.
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Water is not a readily available natural resource for many Ugandans.
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Save for the hunter, all were after its namesake natural resource.
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But these natural resource industries are only part of the picture.
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SULLIVAN: WE SPOKE WITH CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCE MINISTER JIM CARR YESTERDAY.
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Africa should exploit the youth dividend, its most important natural resource.
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Caracal was bought by diversified natural resource company Glencore Plc in 2014.
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The slumping commodities prices have created difficulties for smaller natural resource companies.
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But since natural resource prices fluctuate constantly, so does the state's revenue.
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Federally funded innovation is a domestic strength, natural resource, and national asset.
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In return, they asked to manage the government's shares in natural-resource firms.
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The Trump administration more recently has placed an emphasis on natural resource extraction.
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Stronger environmental stewardship and responsible natural resource development can go hand in hand.
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Geltman is the author of 17 books on environmental and natural resource policy.
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Charles R. Bailey has a doctorate from Cornell University in natural resource economics.
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Triangle Associates connects communities, government and students on natural-resource and conservation challenges.
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Natural resource extraction within national parks is more common than one might think.
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After decades of being carelessly wiped out, darkness is becoming a precious natural resource.
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Alberta fared the worst, losing 22015,800 jobs, including 8,400 in the natural resource sector.
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The two natural resource sectors together account for a third of the index's weights.
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I work here and run a regularly occurring Sunday night party called Natural Resource.
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But she is also imploring multinational banks to stop investing in natural resource exploitation.
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The potential is even greater in countries with great mineral or natural resource wealth.
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Natural resource funds place a portion of resource revenues in trust for future generations.
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Several actions have been taken to stem repression and natural resource trafficking in Congo.
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Natural resource exports such as oil and gas, precious gems, and aluminum ain't shit.
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Center for Natural Resources and Public Policy focuses on natural-resource and environmental issues.
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A portion of the profits will be donated to the Natural Resource Defense Council.
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And in 1999, Director Bob Stanton launched the Natural Resource Challenge, a five-year program to promote the role of science in decision-making, increase funding for natural resource programs and strengthen partnerships with the scientific community, educational institutions and the public.
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America's strong middle class was not a natural resource, like deep rivers or giant forests.
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When it comes to natural resource rich countries and oil-dependency, Norway is an anomaly.
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Piran Resources is part of Pella Resources, an Africa-focused natural resource and energy group.
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These report findings firmly support Obama's vision to bring private investments into natural resource management.
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What prompted the department's decision is what the Natural Resource Committee is trying to solve.
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Pecos was like this: a natural resource mined until the town fell apart around it.
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We are treated like land or water — a natural resource to be harvested and used.
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It's great to see that enterprising Hasbro is cashing in on this unlimited natural resource.
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Separatists have demanded greater autonomy and a larger share of the region's natural resource wealth.
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Valvoline, Pioneer Natural Resource, Newfield Exploration, Devon Energy, Genworth Financial, Cabot and Extra Space Storage.
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Roughly a dozen natural resource drillers and producers are considering an IPO, Reuters has previously reported.
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The island nation is a service-orientated economy and suffers from a poor natural-resource base.
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They said defaults in the U.S. speculative-grade natural resource sector has been on the rise.
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You can own real estate, a part of a business, intellectual property or a natural resource.
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Images showing people affected by the Haiti earthquake or natural resource management techniques for a region.
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They embody a natural resource that's increasing: the social capital of millions of healthy, educated adults.
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The Natural Resource Committee should keep digging until it solves the mystery of this canceled study.
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The several hundred officers tasked with managing them receive specialized training for natural resource-related crimes.
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Here's an argument for Houston as this tabloid-addled natural resource that we guzzled like soda.
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"We have got to protect this very important natural resource that we have," Mr. Sawitz said.
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Energy resources are a central component of the natural resource base – that is, of national wealth.
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Physical commodity traders alone bring in $100 billion a year of revenue, per Natural Resource Governance.
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A consent decree filed on Friday in federal court in Detroit identifies a number of specific natural resource restoration projects that Dow will fund consistent with a natural resource restoration plan developed by representatives of state and federal agencies, as well as the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.
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The Interior Department quietly disbanded its 25-person Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science.
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But Andrew Scheer, leader of the federal Conservatives, said the bill would kill Canada's natural resource sector.
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Nebraska has a regional network of Natural Resource Districts that could direct local money toward flood protection.
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We focused on jobs, energy and natural-resource development, health care, juvenile justice, and tribal self-governance.
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In December, the White House took another bold step by launching the new Natural Resource Investment Center.
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Commodity and natural resource companies Vitol and Glencore also returned for their annual multi-billion refinancing operations.
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The world's most-used natural resource (apart from water and air) is sand — and it's disappearing. 403.
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He said the government could avoid future property disputes by sharpening its minerals and natural-resource statutes.
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This is certainly true for radio spectrum, an intangible natural resource, which governments now regularly sell in auctions.
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Pruitt and Zinke went to town de-regulating natural resource development and putting the kibosh on renewable energy.
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They're moving from planet to planet ... after they've consumed every natural resource they move on, and we're next.
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That's about five times the estimated $11 billion loss in sales of manufacturing, natural resource and energy output.
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"One of the biggest attractions is that it's from a natural resource, rather than from oil," he said.
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The report adds that, on an international level, over $22019 trillion has been invested in natural resource funds.
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Is there a better way to protect people and the environment from the hazards of natural resource extraction?
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Given its geographic location and natural resource jobs, Maine is uniquely susceptible to the effects of climate change.
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Whether anyone should actually own a natural resource is open to debate, but it's too late for that.
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Believe it or not, we use more of this natural resource than any other except water and air.
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More global economic activity translates to more natural resource extraction and greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, and vice versa.
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Myanmar's army has been fighting various ethnic armies for decades, mostly in areas rich with natural resource reserves.
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Now, Saudi Arabia is trying to tie its future to another natural resource it has in abundance: sunlight.
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Inslee's plan would reinvest money raised from the carbon tax in clean energy programs and natural resource development.
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The Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resource Defense Council both sued the EPA days after Pruitt's decision.
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Not coincidentally, such features support the outdoor and natural resource economies, because they are themselves vital wildlife habitat.
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Natural resource firms have largely been shut out of the stock market boom of the last three years.
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Their plan mainly seems to be shepherding in a new era of unregulated, unchecked natural resource extraction and exploitation.
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The bill stalled before it could even reach a vote in the House Natural Resource Committee (HNRC) last month.
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The province appears well- positioned to withstand natural resource-driven challenges at the national level given its economic diversity.
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Funds that back the alternative energy trends, alternatives to natural resource extraction and improved agriculture will all do well.
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Loans to energy and natural resource firms look dicey, as may exposure to China and emerging markets like Brazil.
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However, the natural resource curse is only one part of why Saudi Arabia has failed to diversify its economy.
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Around 2001, the Bird's Head Seascape was a hotbed of commercial fishing, mining, poaching, and unregulated natural resource extraction.
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We need to make it clear that the American public supports common-sense natural resource management and environmental protection.
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He would kill her, he said, if she continued speaking out against natural resource exploitation in the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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David Parish is an Alaskan who has been involved in Alaska natural resource public policy issues for 30 years.
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In modern economic history, only poor countries experiencing natural-resource booms or the end of wars have grown faster.
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It is an exhaustible natural resource that is available to us whether we choose to use it or not.
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In Africa, China is moving from natural resource extraction to developing future markets by building ports, roads and utilities.
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The report identified six steps that promote good natural resource fund governance: (1) Set clear fund objective(s) (e.g.
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The depletion allowance is also available to producers involved in mining, timber, geothermal steam, and other natural resource recovery.
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Even as its significance in art has faded, lapis lazuli remains a valued natural resource, its possession representing power.
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Because the government's natural resource databases are not digitized, he seldom needs to turn on the computer, he said.
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There's a lot happening up there right now as well, in terms of natural resource issues, indigenous rights issues.
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While Tazewell was losing one natural resource — coal — there was another to replace it: the serpentine roads around him.
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Long has written about natural resource issues and worked to conserve America's natural resources for more than 25 years.
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"You can see the food chain at work," said Gabrielle Bennett-Meany, a natural resource specialist for the authority.
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In tandem with the regulatory rollback, Trump's goal of boosting America's natural resource extraction industries has been largely successful.
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Cleveland-Cliffs — The mining and natural resource company's stock jumped 4% after beating second quarter estimates for earnings and revenue.
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The strategy, explained Lee Kuan Yew, its first prime minister, was "to develop Singapore's only available natural resource: its people".
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At last, on Brexit we can recover what the world regards as normal beneficial management of our renewable natural resource.
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He talked about his upbringing, said that our soldiers were our greatest natural resource, and attacked his candidate's opponent's record.
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For the last seven years, stifling regulations on land and natural resource use have become the norm across the country.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Investors and companies are ill prepared for the rising scarcity of this most important natural resource.
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At this time last year, Mexico was playing up plans to bring in outside investment for its natural resource industry.
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But this is not to say Russia will not also benefit from increased access to the Arctic's natural resource wealth.
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It is a kingdom, wisely ruled, and rich in a precious natural resource, vibranium, which is used for hyper-technology.
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Many natural resource-rich African countries are trying to secure greater benefits from natural resources being managed by foreign companies.
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She inherited Kitzhaber's staff on natural resource issues, who happened to be quite cozy with the eastern Oregon livestock industry.
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As natural resource pressures continue to grow, so will competing demands over biodiversity and practices like mining, logging, and drilling.
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"I see this as an opportunity to allow an American natural resource to help bolster both countries' economies," he said.
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But more than the bounty of land, our greatest natural resource in Texas is our growing, skilled and productive workforce.
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Natural resource firms provide the building blocks for industry to create products which are essential to our way of life.
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The next group were metals and natural resource stocks that represent old-line manufacturing, and anything to do with fossil fuels.
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However, Conservative shadow minister for natural resource Shannon Stubbs said the delay meant another summer construction season would likely be missed.
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Alaska did set up a fund that was intended to outlast the cash-flow erosion that inevitably follows natural resource depletion.
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Thus, Monday brought a day of mutual coexistence for high-growth technology and natural resource stocks, which Cramer rarely sees occur.
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The state patrol had earlier said that police activity was taking place inside the campus' Natural Resource and Office Building 2.
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"Each country was suddenly responsible for interpreting what this new rule meant," said Scott Paul, Taylor's director of natural resource sustainability.
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Bishop added that he looked forward to climate change being the main emphasis for every Natural Resource subcommittee hearing in February.
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Prior to that, she coordinated legislative and policy priorities for the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee on behalf of Sen.
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" According to Ness, benefits include increases in jobs, millions in tax revenue, and access to "an invaluable American produced natural resource.
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We have to start thinking about housing as a natural resource and develop a framework around who has access to that.
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Their aim is to highlight the waterway's status as a vital natural resource and its significance to the area's indigenous peoples.
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After completing my degree, I was accepted into the US Peace Corps to serve as a community based natural resource manager.
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It is a strategic, natural resource, and Congress and the administration need to act to keep our nation's innovation enterprise strong.
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"The problem with Wake is the sheer number of birds," said Dillon Brown, 611th Civil Engineer Squadron Natural Resource Program Manager.
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According to the 28503 report "Managing the Public Trust: How to Make Natural Resource Funds Work for Citizens," published by the Natural Resources Governance Institute (previously known as Revenue Watch Institute) and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, US state governments have established natural resource funds in Alabama, Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
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SO WE HAVE SEEN IT PICK UP. ACCESS TO THE RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCE, WOOD FIBER AND RECOVERD FIBER, IS REALLY THE DRIVER.
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It's a tub of 100% natural calcium bentonite clay, a highly absorbent natural resource that occurs when volcanic ash ages over time.
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As Gizmodo has previously reported, the jury is still out on whether these faux-meat products can solve our natural resource problems.
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Rolling back the national monument designations would open up the possibility for increased livestock grazing, and natural resource prospecting, on these lands.
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A review of the matter, published earlier this year by two natural resource lawyers in The Virginia Law Review, supports this belief.
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The mandate is so broad—forestry, fishery, natural resource management—but I think one of our mission is to combat compassion fatigue.
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General Motors and its employees recognize the importance of the river and have worked actively to restore and preserve this natural resource.
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Carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses, irresponsible energy consumption, and natural resource extraction methods are all major threats to our home planet's well-being.
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The two public interest groups — Public Citizen and the Natural Resource DefenseCouncil (NRDC) — make a sound argument that these are irrational requirements.
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We were the good guys, fighting an invading military force that was trying to steal a small country's most precious natural resource.
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Only 29 percent of Albertans said fresh water is Canada's most important natural resource, with 52 percent choosing oil ahead of water.
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Wilson's beer works by harnessing a secret ingredient which just so happens to be New York City's most abundant natural resource: people.
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The most valuable and highly coveted natural resource, it has also been a trigger for colonial and imperial endeavors, wars, and coups.
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In recent years, Liberian lawmakers have been mired in corruption scandals, with some accused of taking kickbacks for ratifying natural resource agreements.
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The bottom line: "Managing a tourist destination is something like managing a natural resource," N.Y. Times columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote last year.
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That is our most valuable natural resource and, right now, we need to cultivate it as if our lives depend on it.
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Coal is an abundant natural resource in China, so the government adopted several energy policies to encourage the construction of coal plants.
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Since a lot of the natural resource research being done is supported by government funding, I worry these dollars will go away.
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Sherpas' indigenous natural resource management practices are the reason why this national park has been such a conservation success story over the decades.
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Ms. Grae was a member of the acclaimed mid-90s independent rap group Natural Resource and is, as ever, a blisteringly acute rapper.
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With each technical milestone we cross we get one step closer to saving our greatest natural resource by empowering fisherman with new tools.
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The State Council will also offer more support to cities, especially those that have relied on natural resource industries, to improve the environment.
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Glencore is one of the world's largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 90 commodities.
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Similar attacks have actually occurred in Poland, where bots have been used to spread propaganda on behalf of pharmaceutical and natural resource companies.
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If the next president fails to act, the challenges of civil unrest, child malnutrition and natural resource degradation will only continue to grow.
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Elmira Aliakbari is the associate director of natural resource studies at the Fraser Institute, a research and education institute in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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But natural resource transparency advocacy group Global Witness complained that details of oil-backed loan agreements and major infrastructure contracts remained largely hidden.
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"Our first priority is the safety of people from polar bears," Bob Windsor, a Manitoba Natural Resource officer, explained in the first episode.
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What airline, Hempton asked, wouldn't want the opportunity to say they were the first to change their operations to protect a natural resource?
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As oil prices continue to drop towards an uncertain bottom, tensions between environmentalists and industry are mounting around another natural resource: Canada's forests.
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That, and "it was the realization that I mow my lawn and I hate mowing," said Ms. MacLagan, 34, a natural resource economist.
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The big picture: We use 55 billion tons of sand every year, making it the third most used natural resource in the world.
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But the bigger story may be that we are already a natural resource colony for China as well as a quaint tourist destination.
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Willey stresses that the impacts agriculture has on the natural resource base are massive and no single technology is going to solve that.
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But oil is not evenly distributed in the area, nor is it the sole source of natural resource-driven cash in the region.
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Cramer has a long history of voting against environmental measures that would enforce stricter regulations on natural resource extraction and fossil fuel emissions.
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"I was told that such a renewal was expected," Courtney Flint, a professor of natural resource sociology at Utah State University, told the Post.
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The only natural resource in many emerging markets is manpower, but a growth model based on labour-intensive manufacturing now faces two unaccustomed threats.
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Think of football as more like a natural resource that team owners have exclusive franchise rights to mine, and you're closer to the truth.
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Other countries, such as Russia and Norway, have expanded development in the region with an eye toward enhanced shipping routes and natural resource extraction.
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To offer some context, the nation's natural resource agencies have long moved away from species-by-species management and turned toward ecosystem-based approaches.
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Be aware that experts including the Natural Resource Defense Council recommends using high quality compost and seeds in order to get the best results.
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Cervest was inspired by Bassi's experience building a farm-to-market agribusiness whilst confronting first-hand the impacts of climate and natural resource volatilities.
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The Venezuelan experience illustrates that a government supported by the exploitation of a rich natural resource cannot co-exist with liberal democracy for long.
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As the BLM works to finalize its proposed reforms to the federal coal leasing program, it should include natural resource funds in these reforms.
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More federal funding for ocean-centric solutions will allow us to tap into this natural resource and protect the integrity of our marine environments.
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Natural aggregate is the world's second most heavily exploited natural resource, after water, and for many uses the right kind is scarce or inaccessible.
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"The U.S. and Canada are the most productive and sophisticated agricultural producers in the world, and they have a natural resource advantage," he said.
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With big business seemingly under threat, natural resource consumption and population growth will likely be at the top of world leaders agendas very soon.
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The U.S. is fortunate to have this natural resource that continues to meet the growing demands of both our nation's and the world's economy.
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When it comes to how the department manages energy and natural resource development on federal lands, evidence of the system's flaws is almost overwhelming.
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For my research on natural resource management and rural economic development, I work frequently with the U.S. Forest Service, which does most federal firefighting.
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Even outside natural-resource industries, the capital stock is "hardly growing at all", says Pedro Antunes, chief economist of the Conference Board, a think-tank.
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Godfrey Massay, an expert on land investment at Arusha-based charity, Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, said the government's initiative could help ease clashes over land.
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As a local organiser for a community-based natural-resource-management forum, she has been helping find ways to reduce poaching by promoting other livelihoods.
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The exhibition includes more than 60 large-scale color photographs forming a global portrait of the intersection of humanity and our most precious natural resource.
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Following the West African nation's second civil war, which ended in 2003, the previous government accelerated policies that granted natural resource concessions to foreign companies.
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The Natural Resource Defense Council, or NRDC, released a report this month detailing how cutting down on beef consumption has actually reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
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Itochu President Masahiro Okafuji said in May that the Japanese trading firm was willing to buy natural resource assets, taking advantage of the lower prices.
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"Capital comes in, (the companies) exploit the natural resource, take it out as exports, and the profits get repatriated," he said on the IMF website.
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The paper then concludes that the public should be encouraged to recognize that antibiotics are a precious and finite natural resource that should be conserved.
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Puerto Rico's oversight board and the island's power utility, PREPA, are testifying before the House Natural Resource committee on Tuesday amid concerns about power contracts.
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In fact, a leading natural resource economist from Duke University wrote to the SEC to confirm that "no competitive disadvantages would result" for reporting companies.
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"It's commendable that they have actually tried to make a petroleum sector policy," said Aaron Sayne, senior governance officer with the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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Coal, a natural resource linked to some of the worst greenhouse gas pollution, has increasingly struggled in recent years as natural gas production grew cheaper.
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Mike Kania, Erie County, Pa.: As a farmer, I believe that soil productivity is our most important natural resource and that we are squandering it.
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Both the House Natural Resource and Energy and Commerce committees will lead their first hearings of the 116th Congress with the issue of global warming.
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Other major Californian natural resource businesses — such as fossil fuels, agriculture and fisheries — will suffer the same extinction or complete technological transformation of its industry.
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Under that plan, the National Energy Board, which critics say is too close to the industry, would lose the power to assess natural resource projects.
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In 2018 Alaska residents received a $1,600 as the annual dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund, which controls the state's bounty from natural resource extraction.
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Now, 300 miles to the west, another remote corner of the state is at the heart of the debate over conservation versus natural resource development.
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Chinese investors in coal mines and other natural resource ventures have complained of being duped by the North Koreans, and then having no legal protection.
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" Trudeau's office said that he had called Kenney on Sunday and they had "agreed on the importance of Canada's natural resource sector to our economy.
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The bull market can find another leg to run on in the new year if natural resource sectors can rebound, CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
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This is in addition to longstanding Uighur grievances, including infringement of linguistic and religious rights and exclusion from benefits of the region's natural resource wealth.
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Hunting for meat would be allowed to continue, Doug Donaldson, the minister for forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development, said in a statement.
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Iceland rose to prosperity by exporting codfish, but beginning in the late 1960s, officials landed on a clever way to export another natural resource: electricity.
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Much of Myanmar's natural resource bounty is concentrated in areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, who make up at least one-third of the country's population.
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The impact on supply chains, natural resource use and commodity markets may make the crisis faced by the auto industry during the Great Recession look tame.
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"These are tremendously high numbers," said Stefanie Hellwerg, one author of the report by the U.N.'s International Resource Panel, which monitors global natural resource flows.
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A recent report by two think-tanks, the local Renaissance Institute and the Natural Resource Governance Institute, in New York, details their freedom from government oversight.
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Finally, the position will provide additional policy support to the Government Affairs department, regional and conservation programs staff on natural resource and conservation issues, as needed.
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The U.S. embassy said the $407 would be disbursed this year to support the areas of health, agriculture, natural resource management, education, energy and democratic governance.
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"Translocating species can be a long and difficult process, but the rewards are high," Booderee National Park's natural resource manager, Nick Dexter, said in a statement.
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The fund was among the top five best performers in the 2013 Resource Governance Index, a ranking developed by the non-profit Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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"If there is unforeseen massive destruction, maybe they will pursue some kind of enforcement action for natural resource damages, but short of that, it is unclear."
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"We can analyze the past, see the present and do (data) modeling for the future," the natural resource manager told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.
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It's also a finite natural resource, and a global shortage has made it harder to sell balloons at Party City, which is now closing 45 stores.
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He said that China's economic influence has increased "dramatically," with the world's second-largest economy contributing to both boom and bust in natural resource–producing nations.
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ET. Canada's main stock index rose on Thursday as gains in the financial sector and shares of TransCanada Corp offset a decline in natural resource companies.
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What happiness doesn't translate into is consistent performance, especially for countries where happiness and GDP are linked to natural-resource wealth, such as Norway and Canada.
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Idle electronics may waste as much as $19 billion in energy costs annually in the United States, according to study from the Natural Resource Defense Council.
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Following the West African nation's second civil war, which ended in 2003, the government accelerated long-standing policies which granted natural resource concessions to foreign companies.
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Yet, as the country imports about 303 percent of its food, its food security is susceptible to climate change and natural resource risks, the EIU noted.
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That's a recipe that typically favors multiple sectors: industrials, natural resource stocks, financials and technology, some of which are pushing up the major averages this year.
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Russia has many ongoing natural resource extraction projects in Africa, for example, that are mutually profitable for both Russia and its African partners such as Mozambique.
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The duo is blending their unique backgrounds—Carusone's politics and consulting experience and Gardner's sustainable natural resource development—for a fresh approach to running their business.
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But that would require locking antlers with the natural resource companies, something both the provincial and federal government has seemed entirely unwilling to do so far.
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A 2015 report by Global Witness, an international natural resource watchdog, estimated that the jadeite business made up nearly half of Myanmar's G.D.P. the year before.
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Alaskans have always had a stake in our natural resource development and a keen understanding of the critical role it plays in our state's overall economy.
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Aaron Sayne of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a non-profit group that advises nations on how to manage natural resources, said the bill was very broad.
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In Europe, a 3.5 percent fall in mining and natural resource stocks left the FTSEurofirst 300 1.5 percent lower at 2595,22.44 points, its lowest since mid-December.
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"We will emerge as a strong, well-positioned natural resource company with a compelling plan for value creation," Arch's CEO John W. Eaves said in a statement.
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Congo "has not done as well from its minerals as it would have liked," says Amir Shafaie of the Natural Resource Governance Initiative, a London-based NGO.
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Yet, as the country imports more than 90 percent of its food, its food security is susceptible to climate-change and natural resource risks, the EIU noted.
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While Meche supports the idea of providing much-needed local jobs, he doesn't want them to come at the cost of a natural resource people depend on.
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President Donald Trump's proposal to sell half of America's emergency oil stock seems "opportunistic", according to the CEO of one of the world's largest natural resource companies.
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Cantwell said Tuesday that Trump's decision to de-list would be "illegal" and faulted Zinke and others for doing the "bidding" for coal and natural resource companies.
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The bills place management authority of millions of acres of land into the hands of governor-appointed individuals and special interest groups, rather than natural resource professionals.
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We've reckoned with blazing heatwaves, natural resource exhaustion, intractable wildfires, and freaky environmental phenomena that made people wonder whether we'd opened up a gateway to the underworld.
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"Using wood makes sense in Scandinavia, where timber grows fast and is an endless natural resource," said Martin Videgard, director of Tham & Videgard, a Swedish architect practice.
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To take advantage of our natural resource abundance, it is imperative that we invest where it matters: the infrastructure that facilitates the expansion of these exports abroad.
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However, NOAA did note that it is undertaking a "Natural Resource Damage Assessment" process to determine if public natural resources have been harmed by the leaking oil.
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That not just because of gains in efficiency but more broadly because the market offers a considerable equity risk premium for those who hold natural resource shares.
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Canada's main stock index slumped to a four-month low on Friday, with natural resource shares leading broad based declines as commodity prices dropped, and yields rose.
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Large- and small-scale miners are still drawn to the Yukon, but these days when Americans come here they're often in pursuit of a different natural resource.
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Mr. Hillenburg graduated from Humboldt State University in California in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in natural resource planning and interpretation, with an emphasis on marine resources.
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She called the state plans developed under the Obama administration a "deeply flawed" one-size-fits-all approach that exaggerated the threats posed by natural resource extraction.
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"For us, this transaction is very unfavourable for the Congolese state," said Jean-Pierre Okenda, Democratic Republic of Congo country manager for the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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"Important parts of Canada's economy have been built on our natural resource sector and the workers across the country who have powered it for generations," they said.
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Improved health, wellbeing, and livelihoods also depend on reduced environmental impacts and natural resource conservation and protection, underscoring the importance of sustainable food and agriculture supply chains.
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The villagers are members of a local "watch committee" backed by two rights activist groups, the Natural Resource Governance Institute and Paung Ku, to monitor the operation.
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Mission:Readiness also found an estimated 32% of America's greatest natural resource have some kind of health problem that would disqualify them from serving in World War III.
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The bill, which officials say could become law by mid-2019, will create a new Impact Assessment Agency of Canada to investigate proposed major natural resource projects.
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Advocacy groups such as the Natural Resource Defense Council are also working to require companies and governments to have marine noise-reducing policies implemented in their operations.
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The dangers of a wasted opportunity Niger's future depends on effective natural-resource management, especially since the country also sits on an estimated 20113 billion barrels of oil.
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George Hoberg, professor of environmental and natural resource policy at the University of British Columbia, said the situation could create uncertainties and makes building the project politically difficult.
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But more importantly, there may be other such freshwater aquifers like it throughout the world, a potentially huge natural resource on a planet with a steadily growing population.
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Some kind of Manchin/Murkowski party might end up playing the role of not-Republicans in natural resource extraction states where the national Democratic Party brand is bad.
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DUBAI, April 15 (Reuters) - Afghanistan unveiled 43 tenders for natural resource projects on Monday in a drive to attract investment in a country ravaged by decades of war.
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In the mid-1990s control over natural-resource firms passed to the oligarchs, a powerful group of business tycoons who emerged from the rubble of the Soviet Union.
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"Petroleum revenues differ from regular government revenues, in that they do not represent income in its traditional sense, but stem from depletion of a non-renewable natural resource".
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"Wakanda's upstream, midstream and downstream mineral sector are entirely controlled by Wakanda itself," points out Nicola Woodroffe of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a think-tank in London.
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The great news about artificial intelligence is — unlike most industries where some countries have a fundamental advantage because of a natural resource — AI is a fair playing field.
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Whether a country benefits from revenues from oil, mining or any other natural resource, the key to long-term growth is enhancing the capabilities of its human capital.
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Minister for Natural Resources Jim Carr issued a statement this week saying the new government has "committed to transition plans for important natural resource projects" including Trans Mountain.
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These idealistic banking models can seem rather fanciful, but governments in other countries use public banks, exploiting the natural resource of constituent tax deposits for the greater good.
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The MCC funding will be also used to rehabilitate and develop three large irrigation systems, set up new markets and establish natural resource and land use management plans.
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Efforts to strengthen people's resilience across Latin America could be hampered by weak economic growth after two years of recession against a backdrop of sliding natural resource prices.
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Many US states, including Colorado and West Virginia, have not developed such funds, and are failing to capture the potential long-term benefits of their natural resource development.
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Coal industry's struggles: Coal, a natural resource linked to some of the worst greenhouse gas pollution, has increasingly struggled in recent years as natural gas production grew cheaper.
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What if states discovered a natural resource with the potential to create thousands of jobs, unlock individual prosperity, and produce an infusion of talent to power economic growth?
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LONDON (LPC) - Global diversified natural resource company Glencore has signed US$9.085bn of loans to refinance its existing short-term revolving credit facilities, the company said on Thursday.
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"Those high, alpine environments have already been protected," said Mr. Nie, a professor of natural resource policy and director of the university's Bolle Center for People and Forests.
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The measure struck at Mexico's most enduring symbol of national sovereignty, rejecting the long-held conviction that it could develop its most valuable natural resource on its own.
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But, when I pressed on a buzzer by the driveway, the intercom crackled to life and a natural-resource specialist named Joe Harvey came out to meet me.
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Officials fret that time is running out to meet priorities such as drafting legislation to legalize marijuana and creating a new system to assess major natural resource projects.
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As part of a shift toward natural resource preservation, some major destinations — and the people who visit them — are becoming more attuned to the environmental impact of tourism.
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From 2005 to 2006, she was a Fulbright fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in As, Norway, focusing on the natural-resource economics of reindeer herding.
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Mark Squillace is a professor at the University of Colorado's School of Law, where he served as director of the school's Natural Resource Law Center from 2005-2013.
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As Mr. Koptiuch and George Ring, natural resource managers for Nestlé, milled around Ginnie Springs in January, two divers warily eyed Mr. Koptiuch's shirt, which displayed Nestlé's logo.
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Greenland is believed to contain a lot of natural resource wealth that is difficult to exploit due to the large amounts of ice and permafrost in the way.
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"She is an effective, innovative leader with 20 years of legal and policy experience, including expertise in international environment and natural resource management," the spokesperson said in statement.
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Trump's executive orders have been as broadly skewed as they are numerous, covering areas ranging from immigration and health care to climate change, natural resource management and education.
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Researchers then compared that number to United Nations and FBI estimates of the size of other global criminal markets like human trafficking, firearms sales and natural resource smuggling.
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So it's shameful that scientists and natural resource professionals have been locked out of their advisory role at the agency that manages land on behalf of all Americans.
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"It's actually full of toxic chemicals that come out of our everyday products and building materials," says Veena Singla, a scientist with the Natural Resource Defense Council health program.
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And while much of that investment had historically gone to minerals and natural-resource extraction or agriculture, China is also making infrastructure investments — just as it has in Africa.
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But while civilians have been installed to run the Kremlin apparatus, the children of the old siloviki are moving into key positions in state banks and natural-resource companies.
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"Provincial biologists cannot confirm why the bears appear to be in poor shape," said a statement from the province's Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
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The number one natural resource for the world's most populous country has always been the potential foreign investors see in selling their goods and services to that massive population.
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Wheaton Precious Metal Corp, formerly known as Silver Wheaton Corp, rose 1.7 percent C$133 to help lift the materials group, which includes natural resource companies, by 0.4 percent.
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TORONTO, May 2 (Reuters) - Canada's benchmark stock index ended higher on Tuesday, helped by gains for railways and pipeline companies, while financials and natural resource stocks more broadly weighed.
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emphasized Canada's strengths in technology and education rather than its ailing natural resource sector.
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But sand and gravel are the most-used natural resource in the world after water — more than oil and gas — according to a 2014 United Nations Environment Program report.
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"For far too long, our mining laws have presided over the exploitation of our natural resource wealth instead of overseeing investments for the benefit of the nation," Kabudi added.
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The Planning 28503 rule developed by by the Bureau of Land Management is a 22019st century solution to better engage the public in natural resource and land use planning.
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"We're trying to lead a path from today's fossil-fuel dependency," said Doug Sims, a strategy and finance director at the Natural Resource Defense Council's Center for Market Innovation.
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As such, we recommend that a minimum of 5 percent of any infrastructure package be invested in natural resource conservation, and 5 percent be invested in clean water infrastructure.
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That is, the government owned the natural-resource wealth of the country — its oil, natural gas, steel and aluminum, as well as its coal, gold, diamond and iron mines.
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Leaders and their associated water, health, and natural resource management organizations need to take advantage of advances in information technology and water related finance to improve sustainable water supply.
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The Trump administration, more recently, has placed emphasis on natural resource extraction, releasing a report Wednesday that championed increased royalty sales from oil and gas drilling on public land.
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Energy resources are a central component of the natural resource base, and that is why it is essential that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) be finalized and ratified.
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The Canadian labor market stalled in April as the major oil-producing province of Alberta shed still more jobs in the natural resource sector, data from Statistics Canada showed.
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He joined CSF in 2002 and brings over 20 years of experience in on-the-ground natural resource management and policy expertise at the federal, state and international levels.
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But here, the tiny neighboring ranching and railroad towns of Westcliffe (population 568) and Silver Cliff (population 587) have decided to tap into the dwindling natural resource of darkness.
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Jay Bodner, natural resource director for the Montana Stockgrowers Association, said the push to cull the herd is linked to the impacts on the landscape by too many animals.
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Protectionist policies that kept factories running in Ontario and Quebec sometimes limited the ability of western Canada to export agricultural and natural resource-based products because of retaliatory tariffs.
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The draft also proposed cutting statewide greenhouse gas emissions one-third below 2005 levels by 2025, tackling sectors like transportation and "natural resource development," which includes oil drilling operations.
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TORONTO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended lower on Friday, pressured by losses among natural resource stocks as prices for oil, gold, copper and other metals fell.
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Those who support the pipeline are painting this as a test of Ottawa's commitment to natural resource development: If this project can't get built, they ask, what project can?
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"So the Pebble Mine project, just like any other natural resource development project, will be subject to an established permitting process," he said in a statement reported last December.
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The Natural Resource Governance Institute, a non-profit group that advises countries on how to manage oil, gas and mineral resources, acknowledged there were sometimes difficulties on both sides.
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The number of land incursions, illegal natural resource extraction, and property damage in indigenous areas doubled in the first nine months of the administration compared to the year prior.
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Global diversified natural resource company Glencore launched an early refinancing of a one-year loan in January after it was hit hard by a slump in commodities in 2015.
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Publicly traded natural resource firms, important for national defense needs, desperately need a shot in the arm since Wall Street and the Obama administration have largely ignored the group.
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Hardline rivals of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani have strongly opposed the new contracts, saying they contradict the constitution which says Iranian natural resource reserves cannot be owned by foreigners.
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Innovative Natural Resource Solutions, a company that consults on renewable energy and land protection, among other issues, hired O'Neill and Associates to work on tax credits for biomass fuel.
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It's up to Congress and the public to oppose this damaging scheme and support this agency to solve the complex conservation and natural resource management challenges it faces today.
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On the other hand, suppose some new natural resource — call it dilithium — were discovered under American soil that allowed for the creation of unlimited quantities of cheap, clean electricity.
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Real estate holdings shrunk to $5.3 billion from $6.4 billon and its natural resource holdings were listed at $2.9 billion compared with $3.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2016.
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On Tuesday the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will be ignoring "a variety of environmental, natural resource, and land management laws" to speed construction of the border wall.
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ET. Canada's benchmark stock index fell on Friday as financial stocks lost ground along with bond yields and as natural resource companies pulled back despite an uptick in commodity prices.
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The World Bank said it helped Peru create its Ministry of Environment and Natural Resource Management as part of its work in improving governance in the nation of 30 million.
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Hardline rivals of Rouhani have strongly opposed giving overseas firms control of oil fields, saying this contradicts the constitution which states that natural resource reserves cannot be owned by foreigners.
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A natural resource fund that adheres to the recommendations described above is a key part of ensuring a fair return to taxpayers in Colorado and other coal-producing US states.
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While 2202 percent of farmworkers in the U.S. are Latino, 2628 percent of all Latinos are natural resource laborers (agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting), compared to 28500 percent of whites.
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The impact of restructuring the SOE sector will be harder to quantify, as in theory it will lead to lower output and therefore a reduced requirement for natural resource inputs.
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If, on the other hand, the enormous natural resource of these forests is protected, it can continue to serve as a unique biological resource for Kazakhstan and for the world.
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Not only does Cameroon have a killer football team, a stunning coastline and robust natural resource industries, but it also boasts the longest ruling head of state in the world.
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Some offered practical setbacks: "The geology, the terrain—it's inconceivable," said Louis A. Harveson, the director of the Borderlands Research Institute for Natural Resource Management at Sul Ross State University.
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U.S. officials are "encouraging other countries to implement EITI but as of today are refusing to do it themselves," said Alexandra Gillies, an adviser at the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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Investors are shy of natural resource shares, which, as we've seen recently, can see huge volatility in the prices of their products, as well as being levered to economic cycles.
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In an interview with the network during his election campaign last year, Mr. Trudeau pledged that First Nations would "absolutely" have veto power over natural resource projects in their territories.
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Gaming operations like casinos and natural resource extraction have long defined the American public's understanding of Indian Country's financial foundation, but hemp and marijuana production is poised to join them.
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"The people who depend most on the Mekong have the least control over what happens to the river," said Bruce Shoemaker, a researcher on natural resource conflict in the region.
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Global diversified natural resource company Glencore made its annual pilgrimage to the loan market in March for a US$14.425bn refinancing and extension of its existing revolving credit facilities (RCFs).
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The State Department's 2015 Fiscal Transparency Report concludes that Haiti has not made significant progress towards meeting minimum requirements for fiscal transparency, including in the management of natural resource revenues.
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With more than 300,000 acres of tribal land within Maine, there could very well be brown ash stands out there that are unknown both to harvesters and natural-resource managers.
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Working with the Natural Resource Defense Council, Georgia Tech, and other institutions, Ahmedabad developed an early-warning system and a strategy for mobilizing the city in advance of impending heat waves.
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Now it is making inroads into the office market, with companies of all sizes and across industries, from finance to natural resource companies and tech firms, testing AI across their workforces.
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Without more responsible, efficient natural resource management, they said, achieving global targets on climate change like the Paris Agreement and or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on protecting biodiversity would be difficult.
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"We remain deeply committed to our partnership with the U.S. government to support community-based natural resource management, conserve endangered species, and address the global wildlife trafficking crisis," the spokesperson said.
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Exact numbers are unknown as the industry is highly unregulated, but the Natural Resource Governance Institute, an advocacy group, ranked Myanmar's gemstone sector one of the most opaque in the world.
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In their early years, the iconic institutions of the environmental movement — the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, the Natural Resource Defense Council — focused on the white elite for support and outreach.
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"I know the initial inclination of some people will say it's pretty strange to give a natural resource a legal personality," Treaty Negotiations Minister, Chris Finlayson, told the New Zealand Herald.
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The mission commended the government's pledges to establish an independent anti-corruption body, oblige senior officials to declare their assets and foster transparency regarding natural resource management and large infrastructure projects.
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Overturning the regulation leaves Canadian and European natural resource companies with far more stringent reporting standards for payments to foreign governments than U.S. behemoths like Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp.
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"A lot of people in Kentucky actually get their water from wells that are sunk into flooded, abandoned mines," explained Erik Olson, a policy analyst for the Natural Resource Defense Council.
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Last December, Moreno agreed to stop granting natural-resource concessions after an indigenous protest; however, he broke that promise earlier this year when the government announced new oil and mining concessions.
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Ron Boustany, a natural resource specialist at the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, says rising sea levels are a factor, as is the natural sinking of the land.
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Eritrea was the worst performer in the annual index released by the New York-based Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), while Norway ranked top, closely followed by Chile, Britain and Canada.
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According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, exclusive economic zones may condone exploration and natural resource extraction in certain offshore areas claimed by a coastal state.
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One of the most obvious drivers of speciation is the destruction of ecosystems by the combined forces of climate change, natural resource extraction, development, and the introduction of harmful invasive species.
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It's an awkward way to serve the cuisine of a country whose most important natural resource are perhaps the street-food cooks who spend their entire lives mastering just one dish.
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"Supply shortfalls would drive prices up, and yes, you'd get less," said Andrew Muhammad, a professor of agricultural, food, and natural resource policy at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.
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While the vote was easily defeated, it sends a very clear message to natural resource companies that investors are going to be paying more attention to environmental credentials in the future.
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This is a huge relief for commodities exporters, particularly across many natural resource-dependent countries in South America and Africa, which saw their economies tank when commodity prices plummeted in 2015.
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The gas project will position South Africa as the only African commercial helium producer and one of eight countries in the world exporting the natural resource alongside the United States and Qatar.
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In a campaign video, he said the tax is "nothing more than a cash grab by federal government that will punish [Canada's] natural resource sector" and have a negative impact on jobs.
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While humans are exploiting it now as a natural resource, the lake may be the final remnant of an ancient salt lake lingering in the area for the last two million years.
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Set up by the civil society-led Tanzania Natural Resource Forum (TNRF), the coalition tries to build understanding between members about their needs, and motivate them to find alternative solutions to tensions.
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But in a report published this week, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) said NNPC withheld around two thirds of the $6.3 billion of oil proceeds in the second half of 2015.
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Wakanda shields itself from international influence by pretending to be a developing country, but secretly it is the most technologically advanced civilization on Earth and harbors a rare natural resource called Vibranium.
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Particularly during these contentious political times, Sustainable Northwest is pleased to work at the radical middle of economy, environment, and community to pioneer natural resource solutions that work for people and nature.
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"I am thinking it will be against us," Nick Illauq said in early July 2017, interpreting the federal government's move to educate communities on natural resource regulatory systems as a bad sign.
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And as ocean conditions continue to change at an accelerated rate due to climate change, expanding shipping routes, and natural resource extraction, it's important to understand how these animals are being impacted.
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Warships are being deployed, bombers are taking wing and threats are being exchanged — all of it sparked by China's growing mastery of the use of the world's most overlooked natural resource: sand.
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Alaska and Norway were able to dedicate the proceeds from natural resource exploitation to that purpose, but most governments seeking to duplicate their efforts would need to look elsewhere for the money.
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A number of data dividend advocates argue that "data is the new oil," meaning that tech companies extract our personal information, much like oil companies extract the natural resource from the ground.
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Third Energy, which is owned by former employees of the Barclays Natural Resource Investments private equity business, is the first company in years to receive local government approval for a fracking permit.
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The gas project will position South Africa as the only African commercial helium producer and one of eight countries in the world exporting the natural resource alongside the United States and Qatar.
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Once upon a time, it was obvious what towns and small cities did: they served as central places serving a mainly rural population engaged in agriculture and other natural resource-based activities.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian mergers and acquisitions slipped in the first half of 2016, with sluggish activity in natural resource sectors offsetting some large infrastructure deals, according to Thomson Reuters data released on Thursday.
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Texas will be the undisputed center for innovation and intellectual capital in this decade and beyond because of strategic investments we are making today in our greatest natural resource: the people of Texas.
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CINTOC (the Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime) is a charitable group that uses WHOIS to fight organized crime in vulnerable populations, including human trafficking and natural resource and wildlife crimes.
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"We want to look into oil and gas deals together as there are promising assets on sale and natural resource prices have apparently stopped falling and have been stabilized," an Itochu spokesman said.
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Acacia's troubles in Tanzania began after President John Magufuli, nicknamed "The Bulldozer", swept to power in late 2015 pledging to secure a bigger share of the country's natural resource wealth and fight corruption.
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An effort from the Ad Council and Natural Resource Defense Council's Save the Food campaign, the calculator helps figure out how much to buy for that dinner party or just dinner for two.
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Acacia's troubles in Tanzania began after President John Magufuli, nicknamed "The Bulldozer," swept to power in late 2015 pledging to secure a bigger share of the country's natural resource wealth and fight corruption.
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Sherri Dougherty is the Photo Editor of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), whose scope includes food, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, emergencies, natural resource management, and food quality and safety.
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Recognizing the potential for getting these entrepreneurs involved in coming up with new ideas for critical environmental problems, President Obama recently took important steps to help encourage private investment in natural resource conservation.
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This is part of an ongoing series on Revenue-Based Investing VC that will hit on: RBI structures have been used for many years in natural resource exploration, entertainment, real estate, and pharmaceuticals.
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The risks embedded in supply chains are also a concern for manufacturers that are attempting to adhere to ethical guidelines due to potential exposure to natural resource depletion, human rights abuses and corruption.
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NOAA said the next step is to conduct a natural resource damage assessment that "assesses injuries to natural resources and then determines the best methods to rehabilitate, replace" the benefits those resources provided.
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Informal mining is a pervasive challenge in the gemstone sector, said Sebastian Sahla, of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a non-profit focused on oil and mining, adding he has not analyzed Fura.
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The country's wildlife policies are based on "the premise that wildlife is a natural resource to be utilized," he said, and officials tend to view nature through an economic rather than ecological lens.
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As the region works to recover from such devastation, the Act strengthens programs like the ones CARE has operated in Mozambique since 1984 that empower women and girls and protect natural resource management.
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BSEE currently focuses on regulation of offshore drilling facilities while the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Office of Natural Resource Revenue focus on oil and gas leasing and revenue generation, respectively.
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And there's a commonsense way in which natural resource extraction work — drilling for oil and gas, mining coal, growing crops, chopping trees — and manufacturing work represent similar kinds of manly blue-collar occupations.
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Spending on international affairs programs at the State Department and elsewhere would fall by 32 percent, environmental and natural resource programs by 21 percent, and community and regional development programs by 37 percent.
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To extend it to the rest of the country wouldn't mean raising taxes or scrapping social services but expropriating revenues from an industry that ravages what is supposed to be a shared natural resource.
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The Program Manager will focus on the impacts of oil, gas and other natural resource extraction activities both on public lands and in public waters that may affect national park resources (natural or cultural).
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In the last leaders' debate, he abandoned his careful rhetoric of balancing natural-resource development with environmental protection, choosing instead to attack the "oil interests" and provincial leaders opposed to his climate-change policies.
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When you elevate human potential, children in my neighborhood in Newark, that genius, that's the most valuable natural resource any country has, because that genius could be inventors and artists that can trigger societies.
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When you elevate human potential, children in my neighborhood in Newark, that genius, that's the most valuable natural resource any country has, because that genius could be inventors and artists that contribute to society.
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In a paper from 2017, James Cust of the World Bank and David Mihalyi of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a think-tank, analysed 236 oil discoveries around the world between 1988 and 2010.
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A June 2015 working paper from the World Resources Institute, a research organization focused on natural resource management, recommended common-sense measures like annual maintenance along transmission lines to ensure equipment seals are solid.
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Slyngstad later told Reuters that the fund would particularly focus on two types of green investments in the future: natural resource management, such as waste management, and environmental technology, such as batteries for cars.
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In Africa, Tanzania, regarded as an extreme example, turned on the miners after President John Magufuli swept to power in late 2015 pledging to secure a bigger share of the country's natural resource wealth.
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The government of Southeast Asia's biggest economy, in an effort to eke out more revenues from its natural resource sector, has also demanded that Freeport divest a 51-percent stake and relinquish arbitration rights.
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This new hydropower regime would undercut state authority to regulate water quality, strip natural resource agencies of their authority to protect taxpayers interests, and establish an unfunded mandate for state management of dam safety.
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It is not just civil servants who should be alarmed at USDA's plans for ERS, but Congress, taxpayers generally and those who are engaged in national farm, food, natural resource and rural development policy.
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Natural resource specialist Peter Schneider and fisheries biologist Don Martin initially set up a beaver camera in 2004 to satiate their curiosities about a collection of food outside the beaver lodge on Steep Creek.
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TORONTO, June 13 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index slipped in early trade on Tuesday as natural resource stocks weighed, while Shaw Communications Inc jumped after selling its data center business and buying wireless airwaves.
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After more than three decades of successful bipartisan battles to protect this precious American natural resource, it pains me to have to say once again that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in danger.
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Of course, a designation can adversely affect already-struggling rural communities by reducing or eliminating long-held uses such as grazing and timber, reducing natural-resource-related jobs and royalty payments, and decreasing taxes.
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Once Wielgus got his first round of money to start the study, the associate dean for research at W.S.U.'s College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences asked Wielgus to come see him.
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And while Franklin is known for her work as a soul singer, her astonishing, powerful, intelligent voice — the voice that the state of Michigan declared to be a natural resource — can do almost anything.
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Both practices are "a tremendous waste of a natural resource," said Riccardo Puliti, global director for energy at the World Bank, which leads a global public-private partnership that aims to reduce the practice.
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As our most significant package of food and farm legislation approaches expiration on September 30, 2018, many are asking: How can the farm bill support resilient farms, address natural resource concerns and increase productivity?
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One of the first was a brick factory, the largest in Canada at the time, which took advantage of the region's other natural resource: rich deposits of clay along the South Saskatchewan River basin.
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Third Energy, which is owned by former employees of the Barclays Natural Resource Investments private equity business, had been expected to produce Britain's first shale gas this year before its permit award was appealed.
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Savings from CSP will be used in part to boost the government's Environmental Quality Incentives Program to provide financial and technical assistance for natural resource management, including conservation practices that improve the soil and water.
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The waters around Iceland have warmed between 1 to 2 degrees Celsius in the last 20 years, said Hreiðar Þór Valtýsson, a professor at the Faculty of Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Akureyri.
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He has declared that the United States has "secured" oil fields in the country's chaotic northeast and suggested that the seizure of the country's main natural resource justifies America further extending its military presence there.
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In the history of political thought, even the fiercest advocates for property rights have struggled to justify how legitimate ownership of land could first come about, given that it deprives others of a natural resource.
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Local governments issued more than a dozen evacuation notices over the weekend, increasing the number of evacuees to 39,000 from 14,000 last week, according to British Columbia's Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.
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This way, we can pay for the tax cuts with spending reductions and new non-tax revenue generated from sources such as selling off unused federal property or leasing federal lands for natural resource development.
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Spring is also arriving earlier in three-fourths of the 276 natural resource parks that U.S. scientists examined, resulting in seasonal changes in vegetation such as pollen, seed, and fruit production, a 2016 report found.
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Furthermore, only "mineral or natural resource" businesses such as oil, natural gas and coal (but not wind or solar energy) are able to use a government-subsidized financing structuring called a "master limited partnership" (MLP).
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Oil major BP and miner BHP Billiton have policies to keep external cover to a minimum, with BHP citing in its annual report "concerns about the value of external insurance in the natural resource sector".
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TORONTO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended higher on Friday, helped by gains in its heavyweight financial shares and a bounce back in natural resource stocks after heavy losses earlier in the week.
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Back in April, building on information previously distributed by Wikileaks, researchers at cybersecurity firm Symantec identified 40 allegedly linked hacking operations around the world, including targets in government, financial, energy, aerospace, and natural resource sectors.
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Rather than give up on the grounds that natural resource taxes are inadequate to do the job, Bruenig wants to use steep taxation, existing capital income, and some unorthodox financial moves to make it work.
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The country's capital, Ashgabat, is one of the most unusual capital cities in the world, its streets lined with marble and filled with golden statues despite the economic troubles of the natural-resource-rich nation.
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"Convincing them that at some point in the future people won't be buying this is impossible," says Georgiy Safonov, director at the Centre for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at Moscow's Higher School of Economics.
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The presidents of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, the vice-president of Suriname and the natural resource minister of Guyana are attending the one-day summit in the jungle city of Leticia in southern Colombia.
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However, for many states – including my own – natural resource policy is dictated by bureaucrats in D.C. and held hostage by coastal environmentalist groups who seek only to "keep-it-in-the-ground" through constant litigation.
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Securing a so-called social license is one of the biggest hurdles to investing in Peru, the world's No. 2 copper producer and home to dozens of disputes over natural resource extraction in poor provinces.
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I can go through the data and it is a shame on society, a shame on this country that we haven't yet understood ways to develop that natural resource, the genius of our young people.
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BP will pay $220 in penalties under the federal Clean Water Act under the 22010-year deal, along with more than $211 billion for natural resource damages and $6 billion to the Gulf Coast states.
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BP will pay $5.5 in penalties under the federal Clean Water Act under the 20103-year deal, along with more than $7 billion for natural resource damages and $6 billion to the Gulf Coast states.
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As oil prices plummeted, Latin America's oil companies racked up long-term liabilities of more than $400bn, or 8.5% of their countries' combined GDP, according to data from the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a think-tank.
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"It's hard to think Shell would stay put onshore and weather all the problems if the assets didn't offer decent returns," said Aaron Sayne, a financial crime lawyer working at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).
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But in 2018, the Trump administration shrank the land by 85 percent, which conservation groups argue would leave the area's archaeological sites and sacred burial grounds vulnerable to destruction by agriculture, visitation and natural resource exploitation.
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"We are very happy that people will be in the field, digging the ground and installing the pipe," Canada's Minister of Natural Resource Amarjeet Sohi said at a news conference in Edmonton, where the pipeline starts.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Tighter environmental rules for Canadian natural resource projects could start coming into force in 2017, ahead of schedule, an official said on Monday, giving industry an idea of when to expect the new measures.
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The government is pressing Oil Search, Exxon and Total for better fiscal terms for the expansion than the original PNG LNG project after its revenue from the country's biggest natural resource venture was less than expected.
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Proponents point out that natural resource extraction jobs are less than 1 percent of state jobs, the industry gets more in state subsidies than it pays in taxes, and the health benefits will outweigh the costs.
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As owners and caretakers of our nation's resources, we should all strive for greater transparency and accountability from our federal government, particularly when it comes to our most cherished natural resource, our public parks and monuments.
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As she began to look into the issue, Davis realized that she had to take action to preserve this disappearing natural resource that is a core element of the largest indigenous religion in the United States.
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"It's hard to think Shell would stay put onshore and weather all the problems if the assets didn't offer decent returns," said Aaron Sayne, a financial crime lawyer working at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).
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During the last eight episodes of U.S. inflation over 5 percent, natural resource shares have returned more than 6 percent a year while the S&P 500 lagged inflation, thus destroying purchasing power, by 1.6 percent.
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The starry cast, which includes Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and James Franco playing lacerating versions of themselves, bumbles about in an effort to save humanity, food supplies, and the most important natural resource of all: friendship.
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Managing a tourist destination is something like managing a natural resource, like a mine or a fishery; a sustainable level of tourists brings widespread gains to the local economy, but too many ruin it for everyone.
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But I wish that nonblack people would stop treating the resiliency and strength that we've been forced to cultivate through generations of trauma and abuse as a natural resource they can mine whenever they need to.
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Overturning the regulation would leave Canadian and European natural resource companies with the most-stringent reporting standards in the world for payments to foreign governments, as U.S. companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron would get a reprieve.
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Matthieu Salomon, Myanmar manager for U.S.-based charity, the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), said the reported announcement opened the door to reform of the gemstone industry and an end to human rights abuses in the sector.
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As wilderness areas like Florida's everglades become even more fragmented due to climate change, human development, and natural resource extraction, culling is increasingly relied upon to protect the native species and ecosystems that are still holding on.
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" The mines have also caused "severe surface and groundwater contamination, and the State of New Mexico and U.S. Department of Justice have filed natural resource damage claims against the company for damages to water and wildlife resources.
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There are a host of important natural resource challenges quickly bearing down on the new administration that require immediate attention — perhaps none more serious in America's western states than the management and fate of the Colorado River.
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"We really don't have a clear and easy path to go back to the good old days when natural resource extraction was driving our economy," said Sean Stevens, the executive director of Oregon Wild, a conservation group.
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TORONTO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index fell slightly on Thursday as lower commodity prices weighed on natural resource stocks, while financials edged higher after two of the country's major banks reported better-than-expected earnings.
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In February, a federal judge ruled the state couldn't use nearly $60 million in early restoration funding it received from BP as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment process, since it didn't study any alternative plans.
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He is the son of Abigail B. Miller and Robert B. Ryder of Shelburne, Vt. The groom's mother retired as the deputy associate director for natural resource stewardship and science at the National Park Service in Washington.
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The property transfer tax gains outweighed a sharp decline in revenues from the province's oil, gas and mining sectors, which have struggled in face of falling natural resource prices and delays to proposed liquefied natural gas projects.
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Soil health is critical for agriculture and natural resource management because only healthy soil can effectively cycle nutrients and capture and store water, which sustains plant and crop life and helps to build resilient, productive agricultural systems.
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It has been widely used to launder money, provide financial support for terrorist entities and countries such as Iran, help them evade sanctions and conduct state-level drug trafficking activities while guzzling the nation's precious natural resource.
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Expanding Regulation A+ to publicly traded firms would at least allow natural resource companies to utilize a financing tool that has been illogically limited to those firms that have yet to demonstrate a public company track record.
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Trump's policy of prioritizing natural resource extraction over environmental regulation has resulted in a growth in greenhouse gas emissions, with a report from the research firm Rhodium Group finding US carbon emissions rose 3.4 percent in 2018.
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Weak state institutions and low government accountability make Mozambique vulnerable to the "resource curse" — when a dependence on natural-resource revenues leads to higher rates of conflict and corruption and a decline in democracy and economic growth.
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Minister for Natural Resources Jim Carr said the government is drafting transition plans for "important natural resource projects," and more details on plans for Trans Mountain and TransCanada's Energy East pipeline will be provided in the coming weeks.
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"There was some slowdown in coal and other natural resource industries in Wyoming in 19703, so there were less people on the highways because of that, and there was less traffic moving, so that's one reason," he said.
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Potash Corp, the world's biggest crop nutrient company by capacity and Agrium, North America's largest farm retailer, said the combined company will be largest crop nutrient company in the world and third largest natural resource company in Canada.
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Population growth, especially in developing countries, is accompanied by urbanization — with 2.5 billion additional urban residents projected by 85033 creating unprecedented demand for middle-class appetites and preferences that contribute disproportionally to natural resource depletion and poor health.
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"It's been two years since the Trump administration tried to revive this pipeline from the dead, but Keystone XL is still far from being built," Jackie Prange, senior attorney at Natural Resource Defense Council said in a statement.
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But as Russia's economy failed to diversify and became ever more dependent on natural resource exports, as corruption became more entrenched, and most importantly as oil prices started falling in 2014, that message of prosperity sounds increasingly hollow.
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At the end of the day, public land ranchers are able to turn an otherwise unusable natural resource into healthy, free-range, high-quality protein while reducing the land management burden and budget demands of our federal government.
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"People in these places understand that things are changing rapidly right in front of their eyes, and it's raised awareness to a level it's never been before," says Denis Dison of the Natural Resource Defense Council's Action Fund.
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The upstart producer that provides plant-based faux-meat options for restaurants like TGI Fridays as well as supermarkets has ridden environmental and healthy-lifestyle waves – offering a less natural resource-intensive product that's easier on the arteries.
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We are helping Kenyan communities adapt to climate change by promoting local climate information for both herders and farmers, developing innovative economic savings programs so they can get through lean times, and offering training in natural resource management.
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For instance, Gabelli Funds' Gamco Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income fund, a closed-end vehicle, has gained 16.27% through Tuesday, beating a benchmark return of 15.89% for natural-resource funds, according to net-asset-value data from Morningstar.
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"A recession is likely to complicate the politics of environmental policy, as it will drop in priority relative to the economy," Ruben Lubowski, chief natural resource economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, a Washington, D.C. advocacy group, said.
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"A recession is likely to complicate the politics of environmental policy, as it will drop in priority relative to the economy," Ruben Lubowski, chief natural resource economist at the Environmental Defense Fund, a Washington, D.C. advocacy group, said.
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"In addition to the national security, humanitarian, and related values impacted by unlawful border crossing, emergency measures are necessary to preserve natural resource values," Casey Hammond, an acting assistant interior secretary, said on a conference call with reporters.
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"But we need to closely watch the development as the spreading outbreak will affect economic activities and natural resource markets," he said, adding that changes in commodity prices will have an impact on its earnings over the long term.
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For clients with bigger wallets and longer time horizons, executives are recommending private equity investments, which have delivered double-digit returns annually for decades, according to data from research firm Preqin, as well as natural resource investments and infrastructure.
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Under the terms of the original agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Gulf Coast states, BP will pay at least $12.8 billion for Clean Water Act fines and natural resource damages, plus $4.9 billion to states.
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Some 220 natural resource scientists urged the U.S. Congress in January not to eliminate the so-called roadless rule on the Tongass and Chugach forests, saying they were North America's largest "carbon sink" countering the effects of global warming.
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That has driven natural resource funds, which have been popular recently among investors shifting from hedge funds and long-only funds into UCITs, a brand of funds regulated in the European Union (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities).
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According to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, outdoor recreation, natural resource preservation, and historic preservation activities provide a powerful building block in our national economy that supports 9.4 million jobs and contributes a total of $1.06 trillion annually.
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The New York-based Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) estimates that between 59% and 74% of jade by volume is not registered with authorities and therefore out of sight of tax authorities, based on data from 2014 to 2016.
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Before we talk, like we have to, about what the attacks on abortion access mean for this anxious, awful political era, let's establish as a ground rule that women are not vessels, or incubators, or an undifferentiated natural resource.
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The settlement by the hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management and its founder, Daniel S. Och, for paying bribes to obtain natural resource deals in Africa tests how much they will endure beyond the settlement's fines and disgorged profits.
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A panel will brief participants about recent settlements and rulings including the resolution of Deepwater Horizon civil penalties, natural resource damage assessments and liability, and challenges posed by rapid changes in pipeline, shipping and railroad transportation of petroleum products.
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The United States has a painful legacy of racism and exclusion toward communities of color and indigenous communities when it comes to natural resource policy, including land theft and inequitable access to green spaces in and near population centers.
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This innovative approach to natural resource restoration and community protection is the kind of thinking, adapted to the particular needs of different areas, that we encourage across the country — particularly as needs become more pressing, and resources stretched thin.
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"Their willingness to be deployed out of the country during the holiday season is a testament to their dedication and professionalism," said Doug Donaldson, British Columbia's minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, in a statement.
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If we are trying to develop the most valuable natural resource on the planet earth — which is not cobalt or gas or oil, it is the genius in a global knowledge-base economy, it's the genius of our population.
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Officials with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Maryland Natural Resource Police don't believe that eagles are the primary target, according to a news release by Maryland's Department of Natural Resources, but rather that poisoned baits were placed recklessly.
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Kenney, who was sworn in as premier on Tuesday, said his government will challenge Bill C-69 in court if it is passed into law in its current form because it intrudes on provincial authority to regulate natural resource development.
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In a recent letter to the environment minister, more than 40 conservationists and environmentalists said the FRA empowers forest communities to be a part of the decision-making process, and "therefore encourages a bottom-up approach to natural resource governance".
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"Communities deserve compensation for damages when it's Shell's fault," said Aaron Sayne of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a non-profit group that advises nations on how to manage oil, gas and mineral resources without financial links to the oil industry.
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"Enhancing the governance of the extractive sector, strengthening the regulatory and fiscal framework and promoting greater accountability between government and citizens will be essential to ensure everyone benefits from natural resource endowments," said World Bank Country Director for Senegal Louise Cord.
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They appear instead in a new online game created by the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), a think-tank based in New York and London that seeks to improve the management of oil, gas and mineral wealth in developing countries.
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The 60-year-old member of Congress, who worked as a seamstress and trader before getting into politics, pointed to steady economic growth under Morales, one of the most reliable in a volatile region, helped by a natural resource boom.
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Kentuckians came to see the Democratic Party as not for people like them — as fundamentally hostile, on an identity politics level, to working-class white Christians living in a place whose economy has long been defined by natural resource extraction.
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The Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resource Defense Council on Wednesday asked a federal court to force the EPA to take action on chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used to kill insects on pests on crops, including some meant for human consumption.
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Sustainable Northwest has a proven track record of bringing together environmentalists, scientists, natural resource industries, community members -- and federal agency personnel -- to do what many think is impossible: talk to each other and find a solution that works for all involved.
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"People in these places understand that things are changing rapidly right in front of their eyes, and it's raised awareness to a level it's never been before," Denis Dison of the Natural Resource Defense Council's Action Fund told the New Republic.
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The exception to the rule is a handful of states with heavy economic dependence on natural resource extraction who are experiencing a small mini-slump due to the current trend of cheap energy which benefits most Americans but harms some communities.
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When wildfires ripped through California late last year, Mr. Trump faulted state leaders for what he said was mismanaged forest policy and talked about withholding federal emergency money, even though firefighters and natural resource experts said he mischaracterized the issue.
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But the foldable, portable triangles of cheese, sauce and dough themselves were generally held to be a natural resource that was perfect as is, much like the soft, unfiltered city tap water claimed to be the source of their excellence.
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Galinhos Journal GALINHOS, Brazil — At night, blinking red dots fill the sky, and the sound of whooshing rotating blades is everywhere — constant reminders of the wind's abundant presence here on Brazil's Atlantic coast and its harvesting as a natural resource.
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As head of law and lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck's natural resource department, Bernhardt has most likely led most of the firm's energy and mining and work and a significant chunk of his clients are oil and gas companies.
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OTTAWA, April 7 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index ended modestly lower on Friday as financial and natural resource shares lost ground, while concerns about escalating geopolitical tensions after a U.S. strike in Syria prompted a risk-off sentiment among investors.
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For instance, Gabelli Funds' GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income fund, a closed-end vehicle, has gained 20153 percent through March 22, beating a benchmark return of 15.89 percent for natural resource funds, according to net asset value data from Morningstar.
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Viewing Cooper's California photographs against his larger expeditionary project compels us to consider how the state's colonial past — its oppression of Indigenous populations, natural resource exploitation, and rapid industrialization — precipitated current struggles with climate change, immigration, homelessness, and racial inequality.
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For years, Brazil has sought to balance a desire to lift millions out of poverty by making use of the country's greatest natural resource — the Amazon's trees, land and minerals — and the need to protect one of the world's most biodiverse regions.
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Between 2009 and 2017, there were two years during which 150 or more deals occurred (Ritter does not include in his IPO data ADRs, closed-end funds, REITs, natural resource limited partnerships or company offerings not listed by NYSE, Nasdaq or BATS).
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Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced a forthcoming memorandum from Obama that would require federal agencies to consider Native American treaty rights in decision-making on natural resource projects, hoping to avoid future conflicts with tribes such as the current Dakota Access dispute.
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Soon after the Civil War, the US Army accelerated long-running efforts to expel Native Americans from ancestral lands across the continent, sometimes claiming to be fighting "barbarism and terrorism" as a pretext for Gilded Age projects of occupation and natural resource extraction.
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"The Trump administration is relentless in its push to give the oil and gas industry multi-million-dollar handouts at the expense of Americans' health and environment," said David Doniger, the Natural Resource Defense Council's senior strategic director for climate and clean energy.
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TORONTO, March 15 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rebounded on Wednesday from a 2017 low hit in the previous session, led by gains for natural resource shares as commodity prices rallied, while investors took the latest Federal Reserve interest rate hike in stride.
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"The danger with (this model) is that in many cases normal budgetary procedures don't apply, so they are a way of getting around parliamentary oversight and ministry scrutiny of projects," said Andrew Bauer, senior economic analyst at the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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Launched in April through a collaboration between Alberta Environment and Parks biologists and a team of natural resource companies in the Peace Country, Grizz Tracker enables people to pinpoint GPS locations of where they see and encounter grizzly bears on the landscape.
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It took a few hours for the local authorities to coordinate with the Klungkung Department of Fisheries and Marine Affairs, the Natural Resource Conversation body (KSDA) and the Regional Disaster Managemejt Agency on the removal of the whale's body, reported Coconuts Bali.
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The bill uses an obscure legislative tool called the Congressional Review Act, which not only kills the reform but bars the bureau from revisiting it in the future – so taxpayers could be left to watch this precious natural resource wasted in perpetuity.
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Total foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region fell to $179.1 billion, the lowest level since 2010, due to a decrease in natural resource investment and a regional economic slowdown, the Santiago-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said.
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"(These two) are probably more interesting for us and we are still looking for more external managers (to look after these investments)," Slyngstad said in an interview, adding that natural resource management in particular had had "very good" results for the fund.
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"At a time when the Trump administration is carving up our public lands and auctioning them off to corporate interests who'd destroy them for profit, this legislation is critical," the Natural Resource Defense Council said in a statement about the three bills.
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TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Itochu Corp's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) said on Friday the firm is maintaining its earlier assumption that natural resource prices such as iron ore and coking coal will weaken later this year, despite a recent rally.
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"A key message from me to donors is that you may tick all your boxes in terms of success, but if you zoom out and look at how that affects relationships around natural resource use, you may have done harm," he said.
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" The jury for the world's largest prize for design, the Danish INDEX: Award, granted him a hundred thousand euros, stating that his "incredibly ingenious idea will greatly improve the condition of the Earth's greatest natural resource, as well as the lives of millions.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE of Utah, chair of the House Natural Resource Committee, the group seeks to undermine key environmental laws like the 1906 Antiquities Act, which allows the president to permanently protect public lands that hold scientific or historic value.
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Likewise, the Office of Personnel Management is working with its inspector general to identify improper payments made to deceased federal retirees; and the improper payment numbers for programs such as the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resource Conservation Service have also seen substantial improvements.
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"We must benefit from our God-given minerals and that is why we must safeguard our natural resource wealth to ensure we do not end up with empty mining pits," Magufuli told a rally in his home village in Chato district, northwestern Tanzania.
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But not anywhere near as devastating as what some five years ago we would have said and quite frankly would have probably -- would have been a reality, had the United States not leaned into natural resource delivery around the world we have.
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Related: A Record Amount of US Forest Went up in Flames Last Year "What's at stake here is one of the world's last great forests," said Danielle Droitsch of the Natural Resource Defense Council, which is among the signatories to this week's letter.
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The bill, agreed by a panel of representatives from government, the MILF and religious groups, prescribes an elected legislative assembly, a chief minister, a cabinet, with an agreement to share natural resource revenues, stacked largely in favor of the new Bangsamoro government.
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A study from the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island reviewed over 48,000 single family homes within a 5-mile radius of a wind turbine site, as well as over 3,000 in a 1-mile radius.
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If the locusts "are to remain for months to come, then their impact on the plant eaters could start to reveal itself," said Kieran Avery, the director of natural resource management at the Northern Rangelands Trust, a community conservancy organization in northern Kenya.
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The island contains a large number of seabirds as part of the Wake Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and lies within the boundaries of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, both of which raise special considerations in regards to natural resource management.
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" But Llewelyn's team is optimistic that the public will accept short-duration treatments if the medical profession openly acknowledges this shift in opinion, and that the public "be encouraged to recognize that antibiotics are a precious and finite natural resource that should be conserved.
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At least two of the whales were hurt but volunteers had decided to wait for high tide to haul the animals back out to sea using ropes, said Sapto Aji Prabowo, of the Natural Resource Conservation Agency in Aceh province, where the whales are beached.
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FM Global, a Rhode Island-based mutual insurance firm, released an annual study Tuesday outlining which countries are best — and worst — at hosting companies' supply chains, which are the links that take a product from natural resource through production and ultimately to the consumer.
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My administration is going to make sure we take advantage of our huge natural resource deposits to make America energy independent and create vast new wealth for our nation, and Rick Perry is going to do an amazing job as the leader of that process.
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The campus, opened in 1990, is named for famed author and environmental activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, whose 1947 book The Everglades: River of Grass, first made the case for protecting the unique South Florida natural resource that later was incorporated into a national park.
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Kristi Disney Bruckner is the Executive Director of Sustainable Development Strategies Group, a Colorado-based nonprofit working in the US and abroad to address the challenge of using natural resource endowments to reduce poverty, while protecting human rights and safeguarding the integrity of ecosystems.
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The willingness of all participants to listen and to bridge the "trust gap" between all parts of the agriculture and food value chain — and across different methods of production — will help realize the promise of agricultural biotechnologies for farmers, consumers and our natural resource base.
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Minn-28500 has some interesting demographics: It is 6900 percent white; only 2628 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher; the majority of its households earn middle-class salaries; and manufacturing, mining, quarrying and natural resource extraction account for 28503 percent of its paychecks.
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The lawsuit was brought against representatives of the city of Flint and the state of Michigan by Concerned Pastors for Social Action, a local group of religious leaders in Flint and the surrounding areas, the ACLU of Michigan and the Natural Resource Defense Council.
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We have a valuable natural resource in housing and so many groups of people around the world who would love to have that and are gaining access to the money to do that—they're always going to want to take this off our hands.
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With oil production dipping in Iran, Libya and Venezuela, and growth in the Permian shale Basin of West Texas and New Mexico crimped by pipeline capacity restraints, the 14-member group should step in, Scott Sheffield, executive chairman of Pioneer Natural Resource Co told Reuters.
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By representing fishermen who interact so intimately with their prey at the moment of their demise, and with a process that entails fishing one animal at a time, it proposes a slower rhythm to food-gathering, a more sustainable rate of natural resource consumption.
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That old story we told ourselves — that hard work and a 9-to-5 and a private home and car and grotesque amounts of natural resource consumption and the privatization of public space and the ignoring of history would deliver the American dream — is dead.
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"We're talking timber-dependent or ranching communities that really spend a lot more time interfacing with that land and have a lot more of their livelihood tied to it," said Travis Paveglio, an assistant professor of natural resource sociology at the University of Idaho.
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Although many Western conservationists shudder, community-sponsored trophy hunting, even of elephants and lions, under a program named Campfire, made Zimbabwe in the late 1980s and 1990s the poster child of community-based natural resource management: Some poor communities prospered while animal populations increased.
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The case, essentially an intellectual property matter that the authorities escalated to a criminal case, has turned one of Russia's biggest IT success stories into an example of why the country has so much trouble developing its economy beyond natural resource extraction, Mr. Higgins writes.
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Over her grandmother's lifetime, the Chinese state encouraged wave upon wave of migration of the ethnic Han majority to Xinjiang, which means "new frontier" in Mandarin, partly to dilute the Uighur presence while also cementing Communist Party rule in the natural-resource-rich region.
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The largest refinancing of the year came as global diversified natural resource company Glencore returned for its annual refinancing, closing US$15.25bn of loans in May before the company was hit by a slump in commodity prices and forced to launch debt reduction programme.
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It's difficult to tell people who have always been able to take sand according to their needs, and who now have seen outsiders come in and derive great profit from it, that sand is in fact a critical natural resource that needs to be protected.
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In this time of hyper-partisan gridlock, a little-noticed bipartisan bill recently passed by the House of Representatives that has the potential to jump-start American mining projects that have been largely stuck due to a poor financing environment for natural resource firms.
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The Shah balked, fearing that Mossadegh was angling to reduce the Shah's authority at a time when Mossadegh's popularity was rising due to his campaign to nationalize Iran's oil industry and prevent Britain from keeping all the revenue from Iran's most valuable natural resource.
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In an age of constant threats to arguably our most important natural resource— including a pending federal infrastructure bill in the works that by and large leaves out water protection and incentivizes privatization—let's take stock of who's controlling the water we consume on a daily basis.
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However, non-attendance does not magically exonerate Kempe and his colleagues for choosing to exalt a dictator who, along with his father, has harshly ruled Gabon and siphoned off so much of the country's natural resource wealth that he has become the poster boy for African corruption.
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In the 1970s, the infamous Club of Rome report on "limits to growth" in the world, which was sponsored and funded by the federal government, saw the planet not surviving much past the year 2000 due to poverty, pollution, starvation, overcrowding, climate change, and natural resource depletion.
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More importantly, Russia has learned the art of using natural resource sales as a weapon: cutting off natural gas sales to Ukraine and Europe twice in the past two decades, and building economically superfluous pipelines to gain the ability to reward friends and punish foes with alacrity.
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Risk capital and venture capital in Canada have tended to focus on large firms in the natural resource sector, and many tech entrepreneurs go to the United States looking for seed funding, which can result in commercialization and profits benefitting the U.S. market rather than Canada.
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This will only increase as the changing climate shrinks polar bears' sea-ice habitat, and as humans take advantage of that ice loss to put more vessels of all kinds (from tourism to natural resource development to shipping) in Arctic waters in pursuit of economic opportunity.
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The visit eventually sparked the idea for Zabalo as the first wilderness quiet park, and an invitation to see whether true quiet evokes the transcendence necessary to inspire folks to rejigger their lives — and society as a whole — to save an intangible and disappearing natural resource.
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Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus opened an office in Singapore this year to explore opportunities across Southeast Asia, while Warburg Pincus backed-AAG Energy, private equity funds Global Natural Resource Investments, Blue Water Energy and Kerogen Capital are looking to invest in the region, industry sources said.
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In recent years, indigenous people in Canada have won more than 230 legal cases against the government relating to natural resource development, while the Supreme Court and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal have issued landmark rulings granting many groups greater authority and rights to territory, funding and services.
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After Glencore reported a $5 billion net loss in 2015, chief executive Ivan Glasenberg was forced to accelerate a major review of the company's operations, in a move to restore investor confidence in one of the world's largest diversified natural resource companies after a market scare over its debt load.
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Had Congressman Curtis asked for our input, we would have drawn on the exhaustive research we conducted in advocating for the Obama monument, as well as the experience and knowledge our substantial and successful tribal natural resource agencies possess, especially with respect to our treasured traditional knowledge and cultural values.
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While the first company disclosures from the U.S rules are not due until 2019, Global Witness and our colleagues in the Publish What You Pay coalition are already analyzing reports published by companies under the European reporting regime, and using them to hold both companies and governments to account for natural resource revenues.
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"Although I understand where it's coming from, an overall desire to shrink domestic spending, it's going to have devastating effects on the U.S science and engineering enterprise, which is such a source of economic competitiveness, and our ability to make progress on solving health care, security and natural resource challenges," he said.
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As native Texan Priya Krishna wrote in her "H-E-B Forever" feature in Eater, "It turns out that, after oil, Texas pride may be the state's single most lucrative natural resource — in part because it can take so many different forms, each of which can be sold to a distinct audience."
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As the Lieutenant Governor of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and President of the National Congress of American Indians, I know full well that tribes make an array of public services available to their tribal citizens and other local residents: law enforcement, fire and EMS departments, schools and hospitals, and natural resource management.
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Whether it is gaming, purchasing patents, natural resource development, providing financial services, or any of the many economic opportunities tribes engage in across the country, the only way for Indian Country to provide a better future for the generations to come – and a better economy for the country - is to fully exercise sovereignty.
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"If a company has good unit growth, doesn't need pricing power, if the company has positive free cash flow and gets most of its earnings here from the U.S. and is away from the [natural] resource patch, we think those companies in the long run will look like reasonable buys at this point," he said.
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Throughout my career in natural resource management, I have attended quite a few large fires, saved houses, and have even been stranded in front of a fire, but never had I felt such confusion as trying to resolve what seemed the sensible thing to do when my gut feeling was to stay and defend.
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ACTIVIST COMMUNITIES The number of high-profile lawsuits against foreign natural resource firms filed by communities in developing countries nearly doubled over the last decade to 30, up from sixteen filed between 1998 and 2008, according to data from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), a UK-based organization that tracks the human rights policy and performance of companies.
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A roster of potential picks for Secretary of the Interior, for example, includes Lucas Oil co-founder, Forrest Lucas, and Sarah Palin, whose political resume is decidedly anti-environment, as proven by her support for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, opposition to Alaskan wildlife protections, and attacks on important natural resource regulations.
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In the dystopic world of Final Fantasy VII — a classic role-playing game released on the original PlayStation way back in 1997 — a mega-corporation known as the Shinra Electric Power Company controls much of daily life, bleeding the planet of a precious natural resource called Mako and then selling it back to people as energy.
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The number of high-profile lawsuits against foreign natural resource firms filed by communities in developing countries nearly doubled over the last decade to 30, up from sixteen filed between 1998 and 2008, according to data from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), a UK-based organization that tracks the human rights policy and performance of companies.
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As a result, there could be cuts exceeding 40 percent from the Environment Division offices that prosecute environmental crimes like the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, seek civil penalties and natural resource damages in cases like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and sue polluters that are responsible for Superfund hazardous waste sites.
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Afghanistan does have a basis for prospering someday, but developing abundant natural resource deposits (copper, iron, gold and rare earth minerals), improving the Silk Road trade routes (rail, road, air and pipelines), expanding power generation, creating agricultural infrastructure, stimulating construction projects, and broadening the services sector will require large sums of money through aid and new private-sector investment.
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