So you can imagine ... a natural reserve is being converted into a headquarters for military activities.
It also is the city's largest natural reserve, famous for its ancient system of shallow canals and chinampas, a method of Mesoamerican agriculture that utilises artificial islands for cultivating vegetables, herbs and flowers which is still in use today.
Keep an eye out for the small furry creatures tucked into the kelp from any coastal hiking trail, such as in Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Carmel or Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz.
Despite sitting on the second largest natural gas reserve in the Western hemisphere, Bolivia remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America.
But in 2007, their partner wanted to speculate on Southern Tier land as news of a vast natural gas reserve grew and new technology to extract it was developed.
Last week, however, Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer told participants in a conference call that his firm and a Spanish oil company, Repsol, have entered into a preliminary understanding to help the Iranian regime develop part of its vast South Pars natural gas reserve.
As the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has been examining the question, the debate in Israel has tended to juxtapose the energy security advantages of maintaining a large strategic natural gas reserve against the economic and other benefits of export, which requires scale to justify the considerable capital expenditures to build the required infrastructure.
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Human rights groups say despite a large reserve of natural resources Papua remains one of the least developed parts of Indonesia.
Its territorial waters include the world's third-largest reserve of natural gas.
He's spent the last two years negotiating with Conoco Phillips, ExxonMobile, and BP, to build a pipeline to tap into the largest known reserve of natural gas in North America.
What is for sure is that reserve supplies of natural gas are now zooming as more and more of it is found not just in theUnited Statesbut also abroad in poorer nations with little or no previously known energy reserves.
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Each year about 4, 000 people visit the nature reserve, according to a Scottish Natural Heritage document about the protected area.
The groundwater, being valuable natural resource comes to 95% of fresh water reserve.
Not only is Palin pro-life, she favors drilling for oil and natural gas in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Reserve--something McCain opposes.
In lab tests, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine were able to overcome these natural barriers.
The lands hold proved natural gas reserves of 3.4 trillion cubic feet and total reserve potential of 35 trillion cubic feet.
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Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) is asking volunteers to help keep the St Cyrus reserve litter-free and safer for wildlife.
Far from becoming a vast new source of baseload electricity fuel or even exports as liquified natural gas, a lot of the shale gas will essentially serve as a reserve in times of shortage, he said.
The inability of a bank in a 100% reserve system to lend multiples of the value of my gold places a natural and desirable limit on the demands for goods and services beyond those matching my deferred consumption.
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General Description Located in the north-west of the Republic of Congo and about 30 km east of the Gabon border, the Odzala Biosphere Reserve comprises an undulating plateau with the Blue Water Lake Moba and many natural saltpans.
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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One approach would peg the reserve volume to the time required in an emergency to transition the economy from natural gas to a substitute fuel.
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In other energy news, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress yesterday that shrinking supplies of U.S. natural gas mean the nation must build more gas import terminals to create a "safety valve" that will help stabilize prices.
Greenspan claims the Federal Reserve can't prevent bubbles, that these excesses of ebullience are part of the natural order of a free economy.
Members of the Guard and Reserve also serve here at home, stepping in to keep our communities safe when emergencies or natural disasters threaten our security.
There is much distasteful and contentious material on the internet but in only one instance does the state reserve the right to smash down the doors and ruin the lives of people suspected of exercising their natural curiosity.
Perhaps the need to win the Federal Reserve's approval of another, bigger, merger between Travelers and Citicorp revived Mr Weill's natural caution.
The project to reintroduce it is part of Natural England's Species Recovery Programme, which is also working with the Sussex Wildlife Trust at its Pevensey Levels reserve.
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