The RSPB has also voiced concerns about any potential oil extraction around Rathlin Island, off County Antrim, a Special Area of Conservation and a Special Protection Area (SPA), which it argues is too important for wildlife to allow that to happen.
Providence Resources is currently exploring six sites off the island of Ireland, including those off County Cork and Rathlin island.
In New York, the most significant impact was felt on Long Island, where Suffolk County had over 30 inches of snow, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Long Island legislative representatives, the county executives of Nassau and Suffolk counties, and business leaders gave stronger support for Cuomo's proposal.
Many property owners will have to lift their homes from 3 to 6 feet to comply with the initial guidelines released for Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and Westchester County.
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has sued the state in Rhode Island Superior Court, saying the pension changes violated public workers' contract rights.
The report, No School An Island, was commissioned by Suffolk County Council.
Ringed by mountains and surrounded by water, Yuhuan County is literally an island and is cut off from the rest of China.
On Long Island, the main roads in Suffolk County that had been coated with ice and slush just a day earlier were clean down to the asphalt Tuesday.
Overall, nearly four million homes and businesses in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were without power Tuesday morning, including 475, 000 in New York City, almost 800, 000 on Long Island and 155, 000 in Westchester County.
In January Allstate stopped issuing new homeowner policies in parts of New York including Long Island, New York City and southern Westchester County.
Neville returned to County Down and continued to visit Tory Island.
Nassau County Police on New York's Long Island have also their patrol officers on high alert as a precaution.
Police in Suffolk County, on the eastern end of the island, used snowmobiles to reach some motorists stranded on the Long Island Expressway.
New York officials will test the new board structure with three pilot regions in Staten Island, the northwest and South Bronx, and Rockland County.
Nassau County, on New York's Long Island, is a Republican stronghold.
Many were prohibited by authorities from driving as a preemptive measure while other roads were closed in the thick of the bad weather, as was the case late Friday for New York's Long Island Expressway and Sunrise Highway, according to the Suffolk County Police Department.
Chambers, which includes Oak Island, has sustained "widespread damage, " a message on the county's emergency telephone line said.
Last month, after learning of her talk, a consortium of Islamic and leftist activists in Nassau County led by Habeed Ahmed from the Islamic Center of Long Island launched a pressure campaign to coerce the synagogue into cancelling her speech.
Mr. Cuomo and women's-rights groups have begun a pressure campaign against a group of Republican senators to extract their support, including Phil Boyle of Long Island, Joseph Robach of the Rochester area, John Bonacic of Orange County and Mark Grisanti of the Buffalo area.
On Wednesday, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, blamed the breach Sandy cut in an eastern Fire Island preserve, the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness, for making the bay more volatile.
Voters were asked to select a new head of government for north-western Taoyuan county, a heavily industrialized area of 1.2m people that also contains the island's main international airport.
Arnett Gaston, a former commanding officer at Rikers Island prison in New York who also served as director of corrections in Prince George's County, Maryland, recalls a night in the 1970s when seven prisoners climbed out of the windows of a Maryland facility.
Oak Island, north of the peninsula, looked like it had been "bombed, " said former Chambers County Auditor Jimmie Moorhead, according to the Houston Chronicle.
The town received 100 of the 300 pieces of snow-removal equipment loaded to Long Island towns from the New York state Department of Transportation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City and Westchester County, said Vanessa Baird-Streeter, Suffolk County spokeswoman.
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