Most of its oil comes from the impoverished swampland Delta region.
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First, workers bring in excavators to cut deep trenches across the swampland.
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Swampland littered with giant shell casings is contrasted with undisturbed contemporary mangroves.
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To this day, no paved roads traverse the swampland separating it from mainland Russia.
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A foggy, reed-covered swampland fades in, becoming the house's new background for a moment.
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But if you see one roaming the swampland, you should definitely contact a local biologist.
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Beneath its artificial shine lies dark, primeval swampland; a gulf divides the seen from the unseen.
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The Avengers group wants more of that wealth to be directed to the poor swampland region.
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Panthers, for instance, need large swaths of lush swampland to feed, rest, and make their dens.
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For example, Eden 6 is a swampland planet with dangerous wildlife and few signs of civilization.
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Today, almost nothing remains of what was very recently a vast expanse of bountiful marshes and swampland.
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Imagine a vast swampland filled with smoke, dead trees, and putrid water—no living creature, no hope.
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The short answer was no, this swampland was not a place that would be amenable to agriculture.
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But law enforcement insists she likely died of natural causes in the marshy swampland around Oak Beach.
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The conventional wisdom in the swampland is that Medicare for all is a health hazard for Democrats.
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That field was once fertile swampland, where I'm sure the raccoon feasted on crawfish, earthworms, and muskrats.
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It's the city Walt Disney built, sprinkling swampland with pixie dust and transforming it into a magic kingdom.
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It helped pay for new ribbons of asphalt on roads, an airport upgrade and the filling of swampland.
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Communities in Nigeria's southern swampland often complain about oil pollution and houses being moved to make way for drilling.
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Several dimly lit photographs depict young girls incongruously clad in white dresses while ensconced in Florida forest- and swampland.
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During his time there, Lopez Obrador helped introduce a farming technique that turned swampland unfit for farming into fertile islands.
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Then both hands return to disassemble the house as the swampland fades out, leaving a thin puddle of water onscreen.
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Communities in Nigeria's southern swampland often complain about oil pollution and houses being moved so oil drilling can take place.
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The coastal Texas city is also built on swampland and has undergone rapid urban development in the last 50 years.
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All three of those movies were about scams — people swindling customers with cheap penny stocks and worthless swampland in Florida.
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Crude sales make up around 70 percent of national income and most of that oil comes from the southern swampland.
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"Ayahuasca takes you to the swampland of your soul," my friend Tony, a photographer in his late fifties, told me.
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I was going to visit the swampland of my soul, make peace with death, and become one with the universe.
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Crude sales make up about 70 percent of Nigeria's national income and most of that oil comes from the southern swampland.
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Concerned about what was making the noise, Jess followed the sound through her backyard and into the swampland surrounding her home.
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Sitting next to Tia on the airboat, swampland as far as the eye could see, I couldn't help but keep laughing.
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Farmland is not swampland, but the farm bill is another example of why the Washington swamp still needs to be drained.
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Reelfoot Lake is less a lake than a system of bayous, creeks and swampland connected by areas of shallow open water.
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Downed power lines can be seen in the swampland near Everglades City, Florida, a community that was hit hard by Hurricane Irma.
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But then the attacks by militants, who want more of Nigeria's energy wealth directed to their impoverished southern swampland region, took hold.
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Crude sales make up about 70 percent of national income and the vast majority of that oil comes from the southern swampland.
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This beautifully painted scene shows a verdant and lush swampland full of life, where the giant otter is snacking on a mollusc.
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They made their way to Louisiana, where they landed along its southern bayous, the slow-moving waterways that course through the swampland.
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For generations, they were a staple of any New Orleans childhood, a summer treat that helped one endure the brutal Louisiana swampland.
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The southern swampland has been hit by a wave of militant attacks on oil and gas facilities and a general breakdown of law.
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Hundreds of tents dotted around this once-suburban woodland park, now a stinking swampland, home to 1,300 Iranians and Iraqi Kurds — like Ali.
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Knowing he would face difficulties, Tereshkov managed to sneak in with the help of some locals, trudging through swampland before reaching a settlement.
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It said its targets, in the seas off the swampland delta region, would include the Bonga Platform and the Agbami, EA and Akpo fields.
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Attacks in the southern swampland have pushed oil production to a 20-year low in what was until recently Africa's biggest oil producing nation.
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So we flew south, watching the olive-hued swampland grow in the airplane's window, and stayed in a motel near his parents' suburban home.
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Militants say they are fighting for a greater share of oil revenues for the southern swampland region, home to most of Nigeria's oil production.
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The Niger Delta leaders had presented President Muhammadu Buhari a list of 16 demands last November to drag the southern swampland out of poverty.
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Crude oil sales account for around 70 percent of national income in Nigeria but there has not been much development in the poor Delta swampland.
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The Niger Delta Avengers say oil firms are responsible for pollution and say the poor swampland region fails to reap any benefit from its reserves.
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Retention ponds and thick grasses on some of the property's perimeter allow the Steinbrenner Field complex, built on swampland, to maintain remnants of that ecosystem.
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Mr. Dangote is building a $2000 billion oil refinery on 6,180 acres of swampland that, if successful,— could transform Nigeria's corrupt and underperforming petroleum industry.
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Pipeline attacks and violence have risen in Nigeria's southern swampland since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader on corruption charges.
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Built on swampland acquired in 1959 by a New York developer, the resort was sold to Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, in 2007 for $543 million.
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In the early eighties, she learned that several acres, mostly swampland, had been sold without her knowledge, and that a developer planned to build a subdivision there.
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Pipeline attacks and violence have risen in Nigeria's southern swampland since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader wanted on corruption charges.
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Pipeline attacks and violence have been on the rise in the swampland since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader on corruption charges.
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From the first scene the story is a close study of moral choice, immersed in its equally intense setting: wet, cold, early winter in the inhospitable eastern swampland.
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In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Food for the Hungry provided over 6900,2628 families with farmland by rehabilitating swampland with 28503 miles of canals, drains and ditches.
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"Conditions at Idomeni are indescribable ... it's a swampland created by the rain," the head of Greece's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO), Thanasis Giannopoulos, said on Sunday.
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It might mobilize the Trump base, but it would hyper-mobilize the far larger number of Americans who are appalled by the ever-increasing number of swampland scandals.
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It's 1917 on the Georgia-Alabama border, and Cane, Cob and Chimney Jewett are living in a shack, clearing swampland for Major Tardweller, their cruel landlord-cum-employer.
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"Whaddya wanna go all the way to Sam's Town for?" says the cab driver through her smoker's cough, driving nearly a dozen miles off the Strip towards swampland.
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The privileged, known as the "Netted," have "angelfair" skin and live on high ground, while the "Surplus," whose skin is often "coppertoned," suffer on swampland and rickety houseboats.
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It's there, deep in the Mississippi delta swampland, that Relativity plans to develop and quality control as many as 36 complete rockets per year on its 25-acre space.
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Pipeline attacks and violence have been on the rise in the southern swampland since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader on corruption charges.
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Last month, two pro-Trump Republican congressman were accused of the kind of corrupt actions that the president's supporters have long said are common in the Washington, DC, swampland.
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The Mississippi River—a trudging, steady flow of ruddy water, sand, and mud—snakes across southern Louisiana, bisecting New Orleans and a large swath of fast-disappearing emerald swampland.
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This forged a unique culture in the area, which was largely swampland and was drained at the turn of the 20th century, with mostly working-class residents settling the land.
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Along the way, fraud and waste has been a problem — one charter school spent more than $1 million on acquiring swampland it doesn't use, The Detroit Free Press has reported.
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CasaPound activists flocked by the thousands last weekend to the group's annual convention, which was held outside Latina, a town established in 1932 by Mussolini on swampland 70 kilometers from Rome.
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The blast was one of the worst in recent weeks in the swampland, where residents and former militant groups have long complained about oil pollution and casualties caused by pipeline accidents.
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This did not sway her: She says that much of her property is swampland, and that corporate representatives would not tell her which 12 acres she would be allowed to keep.
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Its historic Rod and Gun Club, which has hosted a half dozen U.S. presidents, including Harry Truman when he dedicated the swampland surrounding the city as a national park in 1947.
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Through puddles and still-unpaved swampland we traversed, arriving at Borscht's funeral pyre: a screen reading "In Loving Memory," playing every Borscht film on high speed, two ladders on either side.
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Pipeline attacks and violence have risen in the southern swampland of Africa's biggest oil exporter since authorities issued an arrest warrant in January for a former militant leader on corruption charges.
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Tran Minh Tien, 32, runs his company, 3T, from a village deep in the Mekong river delta, west of Ho Chi Minh city, where wild gray sedge grass grows in swampland.
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Buhari met leaders from the southern swampland for the first time since militants started a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in January to push for a greater share of oil revenues.
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The Trump tax cuts would create gigantic deficits and guarantee that the lobbyist and special interest frenzy Trump promotes will make Washington the worst special interest swampland since the Teapot Dome scandal.
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All of the machinations from the White House, the one-party swampland of the Republican Congress and diabolical plots against American democracy from the Kremlin cannot defeat them — if only they vote.
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Graves, south of the city of Bordeaux, was the most ancient part of Bordeaux, known for its wines at a time when the Médoc, north of the city, was still mostly swampland.
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The restive southern swampland region has been rocked by violence against oil and gas pipelines since the start of the year, reducing the OPEC member's output by 700,000 bpd to 1.56 million bpd.
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It was either swampland or rocks and it was infested with, as they put it, these evil insects, which really make it impossible to survive the summer there for both man and cattle.
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The was no immediate statement from the government of President Muhammadu Buhari but a youth council representing the largest ethnic group in the swampland urged the government to seize the opportunity for dialogue.
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It centered on a career civil servant (played by Takashi Shimura) who, on learning he has terminal cancer, defies protocol by arranging for a patch of municipal swampland to be transformed into a public park.
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The restive southern swampland region has been rocked by violence against oil and gas pipelines since the start of the year, reducing the OPEC member's output by 700,000 barrels a day to 1.56 million bpd.
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The snake is the largest python ever removed from Big Cypress National Preserve, a 729,000-acre expanse of swampland west of Miami in South Florida, according to a statement Friday on the preserve's Facebook page.
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The pipeline, which will cross rivers and swampland that act as a catchment for Lake Victoria and areas rich in wildlife, is expected to transport about 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) when oil production peaks.
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The grueling Latin America trek forces migrants to spend at least a week trudging across swampland and hiking through mountainous rainforests in the lawless Darien Gap that is the only link between Panama and Colombia.
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Attacks by militants, who want a greater share of the country's energy wealth to go the impoverished oil-producing swampland, have been less frequent since November when Buhari held talks with community leaders from the region.
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The Avengers, like many in the Niger Delta, say they want a greater share of Nigeria's energy wealth to stay in the impoverished swampland region, which produces the bulk of the oil but is largely underdeveloped.
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He tells his base to eat the cake of despising those he scurrilously attacks on his enemies lists, while he lets crony capitalists who back him feather their nests in the murky swampland of his presidency.
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All the while, huge numbers of voters are becoming more and more angry at the steady stream of swampland scandals involving various Trump administration officials — bombshell after bombshell will fall as the midterms get closer and closer.
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Obama, who ran a scandal-free presidency, will have a field day mocking the swampland scandals that pollute the Trump presidency on a regular basis on the front pages of newspapers and television screens across the land.
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They take buses, trains and boats -- braving huge swaths of uninhabited swampland, criminal gangs and hunger -- in the hopes of making their way to the United States, where they dream of a good job and a better life.
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The landscape varies from manicured and natural gardens to forest, swampland, lakes, Garry oaks and camas fields (originally planted by the Lekwungen, who harvested the edible bulbs), and includes a children's farm and a 2149-foot totem pole.
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Second, unchecked development in the greater Jakarta region, which is now home to more than 235 million people, meant retention ponds, swampland and other open spaces that normally absorb rainwater were paved over for shopping malls and apartment blocks.
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Take the land development company Gulf American Land Corporation (GALC), which was accused by the state of fraudulent selling in the 60s, but still managed to completely reshape Florida's landscape, making swampland available for purchase before it was livable.
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Dinosaurs is unlike any sitcom America has produced: an anti-capitalist, moralistic puppet show about a family of dinosaurs living on a swampland owned by the FruitCO corporation (a division of WeSaySo enterprises), run by a Trump-esque CEO.
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The swampland region - which produces most of the oil that makes up 70 percent of government revenue - has been hit by pipeline attacks since January which have cut the OPEC member's output by 700,000 barrels a day to 1.56 million bpd.
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Echoing a common complaint in the impoverished swampland that produces most of Nigeria's oil, the protesters said they were not benefiting from the region's oil wealth and wanted an end to the oil pollution that has ruined much of the land.
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The Democratic battle cry in 2018 will be that, on issue after issue, Democrats fight on behalf of the vast majority of Americans, while Republicans fight on behalf of financial elites, special interests and the swampland of lobbyists who serve them.
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With the so-called war on drugs in remission, Mr. Mueller's work should inspire federal and state officials to make the crimes of swampland and related white-collar and cyber criminality the next priority for the nation's most talented prosecutors.
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Kennedy, O'Rourke, Klobuchar, Harris and Brown appeal to Americans who yearn for a politics far more noble, decent and inspiring than the sandal-ridden and suffocating swampland that Trump and Republicans offer a nation that hungers for big and uplifting change.
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What kind of president attacks European unity, divides the NATO alliance, praises the Russian dictator who attacks Western democracy, salutes North Korean generals and surrounds his presidency with the worst collection of crony capitalists and swampland profiteers ever assembled by any president?
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Biden should use the debate to seek common ground with his Democratic opponents and to launch a full-scale and aggressive broadside against the bitterly divisive, chronically deceitful and thoroughly corrupt swampland of the Trump presidency and his Republican sycophants in Congress.
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The pipeline route passes through the Atchafalaya Basin of southern Louisiana, a nearly 1 million-acre patch of swampland that is a critical component of the state's flood protection system and a source of livelihood for the commercial fishing industry, according to the lawsuit.
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The group, which wants more energy wealth to go to the swampland region which is the source of most of Nigeria's oil, said it would continue attacking energy facilities until the "environment prevails for genuine dialogue and negotiations" to end a spate of attacks dating back to January.
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For one, a handful of writers addressed a place they'd encountered in films or novels (including Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke" and Richard Adams's "Watership Down"); for the other, we published five original fairy tales that spanned the globe, unfolding in settings like Florida's swampland and an ancient Turkish forest.
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"She is the largest python ever removed from Big Cypress National Preserve — and she was caught because of research and a new approach to finding pythons," the national preserve, located in the swampland of southwest Florida, posted on Facebook, along with a shot of four people holding up the lengthy snake.
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Across the great divides of American society, a majority of Americans are disgusted, revolted, angered, afraid and determined to end the swampland of scandal and division that Trump has brought to Washington, which Republicans in Congress seem determined to support and defend until the bitter end of their control of Congress.
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WASHINGTON — After spending nearly a month out of the public eye, Melania Trump emerged from the White House on Wednesday, putting an end to at least a few of the theories — some her husband has repeated to his 52 million Twitter followers — that blossomed like swampland ragweed during her time in seclusion.
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Here's a time-lapse of the Miami area culled from satellite imagery that reveals the growth since 1992: Miami-Dade County is the most populated county in Florida, home to nearly 3 million people, and it has added hundreds of thousands of people since Andrew; former swampland and open fields have been paved over for new neighborhoods and subdivisions.
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Do Republican senators believe it is good politics to force-feed an unpopular tax bill negotiated in secret late-night talks, behind closed doors, on very short notice, by members of only one party, colluding with their lobbyist benefactors, on a tax cut for the rich, passed after banana republic procedures, by a swampland of the Senate?
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" As in VanderMeer's real-life encounter, the beast suddenly turns from the group and disappears into the swampland, and the novel's narrator notes its strange posture, "its head willfully pulled to the left as if there were an invisible bridle" and its expression "somehow contorted, as if the beast was dealing with an extreme of inner torment.
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The great news for Democrats is that the tidal wave of revulsion against the swampland that Trump and Republicans in Congress have brought to Washington is so deep and wide, and voter turnout in support of change will be so enthusiastic and large, that recent elections throughout 2017 and 2018 strongly suggest that even polls favorable to Democrats underestimate the potential magnitude of the Democratic victory in the midterms.
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The passage of the tax cut bill locks President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and Republicans in Congress together as the party of the rich and the rulers of the swampland in Washington.
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So the connections multiply: from 17th-century Dutch colonialists to the Black Panthers of 1960s America, and farmers in balmy Grenada — even to the frantic crush and heave of Manhattan, a bit of swampland once called New Amsterdam, which those same Dutchmen saw fit to pawn off on the British in 1667 in exchange for Run, one of the nutmeg-producing Banda Islands, and so tiny, it's barely visible on a world map.
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Sanders and Perez unite Democrats against the secretive swampland that Trump Republicans have brought to Washington with secret presidential tax returns, secret White House visitor logs, shameless and pervasive conflicts of interest, a major scandal involving Russia undermining American democracy to support Trump for president, a war on women now attacking Planned Parenthood, a sellout of workers with retreats on trade and the most radical trickle-down economics in history, a war against the Earth attacking environmental standards, a war against the poor through barbaric program cuts, and a president who moved from extreme isolationism to bellicose threats of war he seems ready to fight without allies, strategies, or plans.
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