29 results returned for search: "" category "Environment" author Sam Strangeways
The seawater at Bermuda’s top tourist beaches has been given a clean bill of health as the summer vacation season gets into full swing.
Environmental health officers have been regularly testing the quality of the bathing water at the nine most popula...
DATE: May 13, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Developer Tom Steinhoff has cast doubt over whether his plans for a restaurant at Shelly Bay will go ahead, citing frustration at government red tape and “disenchantment” at the negative response from some residents.
The businessman has submitted a r...
DATE: Mar 07, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A Bermudian scientist has made a presentation on the need to monitor changes in the world’s oceans to a committee which advises US president Barack Obama.
Anthony Knap, former director of Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), told The Royal Gaz...
DATE: Jul 15, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Environmentalists are calling on Government to keep its word and introduce vehicle emission limits.
Legislation setting out acceptable levels of air pollution has yet to be tabled in Parliament, even though millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money has...
DATE: May 14, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Vehicle emissions and other pollutants are partly to blame for falling amphibian numbers in Bermuda, according to an expert.
Jamie Bacon, a research associate with the Bermuda Zoological Society, told The Royal Gazette that emissions from cars, bikes...
DATE: May 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Government has renewed a private company’s contentious contract to carry out emissions testing on all vehicles — despite having yet to legislate on acceptable levels of air pollution.
Bermuda Emissions Control Ltd (BECL) was awarded a five-year multi...
DATE: May 13, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A global online activist network has launched a campaign to get the Bermuda Government to implement the “Blue Halo” proposal to turn the sea around the Island into a protected environmental zone.
Avaaz.org says on its website: “Bermuda is on the verg...
DATE: Apr 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The Department of Environmental Protection has issued guidelines to the public on how to correctly identify black and brown widow spiders.
In the latest edition of the Department’s Envirotalk newsletter, plant protection officer Claire Jessey describ...
DATE: Jan 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Work to get rid of asbestos stockpiled at the government quarry at Bailey’s Bay and at Southside is under way.
The potentially hazardous substance has been at both sites for more than a decade and public consultation on a $4.9 million project to get ...
DATE: Jul 17, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Ombudsman Arlene Brock has insisted she was entirely within her rights to launch an inquiry into special development orders (SDOs), despite Environment Minister Marc Bean describing her decision to do so as “peculiar”.
And she told The Royal Gazette ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
