Paul Miller, a building contractor who has lived in the area all his life, called out a JCB driver who works with him to try to move earth from the affected area.
So what can be done, given that we should already be aware of climate change after all these years, if we really want to move beyond Earth Hour symbolism?
The company that operated the mines and still owns the land recognized its potential for transformation into a natural-looking golf playground without the expense of having to move much earth.
But President Obama would move heaven and earth to avoid sending American troops into a foreign country.
He vowed that the United States "is going to move heaven and earth" to rescue those in need.
This includes a fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions to move to effective Earth-system governance.
The Obama Campaign should have picked 1-3 really specific policy proposals that it would move heaven and earth to enact.
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Before then, in 2007, Mitt Romney had said he would not move heaven and Earth to find Osama bin Laden.
They would rather Greece stays in but they are not saying the alternative is catastrophic or that they would move heaven and earth to prevent it falling out.
"One of my priorities this Congress will be to move heaven and earth to fix our education system for the most vulnerable, " he said, endorsing plans for a new funding formula now being used in San Francisco public schools.
While not opposed to working with the new college, she has vowed to move "heaven and earth" to avoid closure.
To make room for the continual addition of new ocean crust, all the Earth's plates move.
One day this information could be used to help move an asteroid out of an Earth-impacting orbit.
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This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.
This pending move back to planetary science from earth sub-orbit comes on the heels of improvements in pointing systems and instrument technologies that will allow ground-based controllers to fine-tune balloon payloads to include one-meter class optical and infrared telescopes.
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Also, spacecraft stationed at L2 do not experience the swings in temperature that objects circling close to Earth sometimes undergo as they move in and out of shadow.
Those gravity-defying levees, along with pumping stations designed to move water away from the center of the Earth, kept the city pretty darn dry.
Without it such a galaxy's outer parts would spin more slowly than the inner ones (just as the outer planets of the solar system move around the sun more slowly than the earth does).
Edwin Lau, director of Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong, said the move to clean up Hong Kong's energy-hungry buildings was long overdue.
On Earth, the continents lie on tectonic plates that move relative to each other, creating mountains and deep sea shelves.
Earth Networks will presumably expand, or competitors will move in, or both.
Campaigners were delighted with the EU stance - Friends of the Earth's Andrew Pendleton said it was a timely move.
On the moon, we had one-sixth of Earth's gravity, allowing Neil and me to move around easily in the Eagle to put on equipment for our walk.
There seems to be no way that particles streaming past the earth along magnetic field lines can make a turn, move at right angles to those lines for a bit and end up inside the magnetosphere.
In parts of heavily deforested Para state, the average distance timber is carried to sawmills has risen from 17 kilometres to 70 over the past decade, encouraging loggers to move to other areas, says Roberto Smeraldi, of Friends of the Earth.
According to his calculations, about 20 years of lead time would be sufficient for solar radiation to move the asteroid away from its current course causing it to come nowhere near the Earth.
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The asteroid would then move out to encounter Jupiter where it would acquire more energy that it could impart to the Earth on a subsequent encounter.
This gives the dinosaur-killing rock only 15 million years to move into a suitable place to be flung out of the main belt and to travel to Earth in time for the impact 65 million years ago.
As a relative newcomer to the wireless arena, the search giant in one bold move got its hands on the unmatched innovation experience of the longest-lived mobile phone company on earth.
What on earth motivated a 48-year-old Chicago publishing executive to suddenly uproot his family and move to the wild west of Napa Valley back in 1973?
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