Iceland is a natural resource-based economy, with plenty of untapped natural resources and well educated workforce.
The court said that if a natural resource was going to benefit the poor, then it did not have to be auctioned.
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As always, Brazil is still concerned about being a natural resource exporter.
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The second largest party in the governing coalition has questioned the level of private investment in the exploitation of a natural resource and the planned level of exports.
Its increasing reliance on imports has sustained higher energy prices worldwide and underpinned a natural-resource boom in Africa, the Middle East and Australia.
"There's a lot of people who don't recognize the amount of conservation the Marine Corps does, " said Martin Husung, a natural-resource specialist on the base.
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Success brought loud criticism that the company was denying locals a key natural resource and committing environmental depredation by shipping bottled water halfway across the globe.
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The result, when processed through the computers of Arbonaut, a Finnish natural-resource-management company, is a three-dimensional image of the forest that can be correlated with, and calibrated by, the efforts of the chaps with the tape measures.
The FA will foster the recognition of the value of groundwater as a critically important natural resource, and of the social, economic and ecological opportunities that sustainable groundwater management can provide through interdisciplinary dialogue.
Overall, emerging market countries have a disproportional share of natural resource wealth (although exceptions exist, such as Australia, Canada and Norway).
There is a huge qualitative difference between an economy built on natural resource extraction, where the populace is a cost center, and an economy built on productive labor by the population, where increasing capabilities of the society leads to more wealth.
This event provides a unique opportunity for the natural resource and agriculture community to share solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation in agricultural landscapes.
The degree of commitment the nation should make to natural gas as a strategic resource (accepting but managing the impact of development), is very much a function of the size of the prize.
If we sit back and do nothing, natural energy will remain a poor resource.
Gambia has sparse natural resource deposits and a limited agricultural base, and relies in part on remittances from workers overseas and tourist receipts.
Several lawmakers seemed convinced, describing natural gas as "a precious resource, " a bridge to a renewable energy future--and a replacement for coal.
An effective natural-resource fund requires a government that can resist both economic populism and kleptocracy.
Its government sees natural-resource development as a large part of the answer.
One by one, over a period of many years, the other natural resource companies slipped off the list.
Natural Resource Partners, even with a hefty 10.5% yield, is trading at the equivalent of nine times cash flow.
You have that natural resource there that should be a real wealth for the nation and you're not using it.
With domestic oil consumption growing at 7.5 percent per year and economic expansion reaching an amazing 10.2 percent in the first quarter of 2006, resource-rich Nigeria is a natural partner for an energy-conscience Beijing.
With at least a one hundred year reserve of domestic shale gas in America, a huge price difference between natural gas and diesel or gasoline, and the opportunity for significant energy security benefits offered by a domestic resource, businesses, consumers and governments have realized the need to incorporate natural gas into the national transportation mix.
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The expert working group will provide a forum for government, industry, researchers and natural resource managers to share their experience of mining and biosphere reserves.
Natural gas has become a cheap and abundant domestic resource, too.
Now, any tax break for natural resource extraction is in itself is a point of contention among environmentalists, myself included, but I will leave those arguments aside for now and focus on the purely economic issue with this tax deduction.
Money will flow where it is advantageous, where there is a high rate of return, today this is the natural resource sector.
The possibilities are endless from poverty alleviation to affordable housing to natural resource conservation to building needed infrastructure in a city or state.
Another piece of legislation introduced in the House would amend the state constitution to require future wildlife or natural resource-related initiatives to pass by a two-thirds margin, rather than by a simple majority.
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