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Climate Change: Government may review road-building policy

2021-02-12 16:47:34| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

It follows a legal challenge from campaigners, who argue the policy does not fit with climate targets.

Last regions pristine wilderness from Asia to Amazon under threat massive road-building

2015-05-09 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: The last great regions of pristine wilderness from Asia to the Amazon are threatened by an unprecedented road-building programme financed by aggressive development banks with little interest in protecting the natural world, a leading environmental scientist has warned. Massive infrastructure and road-building are at the heart of huge development projects around the world, justified as vital attempts at helping the poorest attain a higher standard of living. Scientists claim that we are...

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McCrory to propose new road-building sources

2014-12-22 02:20:37| Auto Dealers - Topix.net

Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina legislators praised each other for the new method they approved last year to fund transportation projects they say is based not on who you know but more on reducing gridlock and creating jobs. The result, the N.C. Department of Transportation says, is efficiencies to fund 300 additional projects in its first 10-year road-building proposal released this month under new evaluation formulas.

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United Kingdom: Road-building protesters score first victory in the second battle of Hastings

2013-01-18 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: King Harold's loss to Duke William of Normandy back in 1066 did a good job of putting Hastings on the map. Now the quiet countryside of the south coast is once again the scene of a great battle, and perhaps the start of a conflict that could last years. In the trees of Combe Haven, on the proposed site of a new link road between Hastings and Bexhill, protesters have been bravely battling East Sussex council. Campaigners argue that the proposed road will be expensive, unnecessary and ineffective...

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