Sentences with phrase «battle over the project»

Despite a long battle over the project, leaders and parents acknowledged that stopping the development may no longer be possible, but that construction mitigation was imperative.

Not exact matches

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

The Keystone XL pipeline requires state approval, and Nebraska landowners fought a yearslong legal battle with TransCanada over the project.

The conflict: Americans and Canadians are battling it out over the Peace Bridge, which links Fort Erie, Ont., to Buffalo, N.Y. Americans on the binational authority overseeing the bridge are accusing Canadians of foot - dragging on a redevelopment project on the U.S. side, and Cuomo said the bridge is a «metaphor for dysfunction.»

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

The project's scientists are reluctant to battle Greenpeace directly over golden rice before results of their research come in.

District 181 officials are reluctant to discuss the issue, but a Tribune analysis of district documents shows the overruns can be attributed, in part, to poor planning, personality clashes and a rush to complete the project even while battles raged over land ownership and storm - water and zoning issues.

The battle over the plans of the Chicago Children's Museum to move to Grant Park flared up at a Chicago Park District meeting Wednesday, with opponents booing park commissioners who supported the project and cheering those who didn't.

Sean Ryan and Paul Snyder [email protected] [email protected] The Wisconsin Legislature now is involved in an ongoing battle over whether the state's prevailing wage rules should apply to municipal turnkey projects.

She's not saying exactly, but Mayor Stephanie Miner appears to have raised the white flag in her losing legal battle with COR Development over tax breaks for the company's $ 342 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project.

They are paid $ 174,000 annually and are called upon to settle tax disputes, mediate battles over development projects and, at times, determine the outcome of elections.

Esty said lawmakers were discussing setting up a permanent emergency fund that would available for projects like working on a Zika vaccine, though she was optimistic that Obama's funding request would be approved without being tied to a larger, partisan battle over the federal budget.

Syracuse, N.Y. — She's not saying exactly, but Mayor Stephanie Miner appears to have raised the white flag in her losing legal battle with COR Development over tax breaks for the company's $ 342 million Syracuse Inner Harbor project.

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — When other elected officials around the city were giving their state of the district speeches back in the summer, City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez decided to postpone his — citing a flurry of staff changes, zoning battles over the controversial Sherman Plaza project and plans to increase bike lanes in the area.

But the conclusion has not ended what one Chinese astronomer calls «an epic battle» between the high - ranking engineers accustomed to top - down control over projects and the nascent grassroots movement.

(However, Senate appropriators are almost certain to restore the money for the ships in their version of the bill, continuing a battle between the two houses over the project.

If the project moves forward (the script is still being written), the drama will center on a scientist and her former mentor as they battle for control over the human genome, the culmination of which could mean life or death for the entire human race.

A legal battle over land ownership has clouded the future of a project to build one of the world's most ambitious telescopes.

This week, get news on the upcoming Muppet movie and new projects from Wes Anderson and Cameron Crowe, plus watch over a dozen just - released trailers and clips for upcoming movies, including «Tron: Legacy,» «Battle: Los Angeles,» and «Friends with Benefits.»

Set to be directed by Doug Liman, this long brewing project is an adaptation of the Hiroshi Sakurazaka novel that follows a soldier in an alien war who finds himself living his last day in battle over and over again after being caught in a time loop, becoming a better soldier along the way.

Over at Hollywood Reporter, they're reporting that Austin, Texas - based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is in negotiations to take over directing Battle Angel, the big sci - fi robot project that James Cameron had been attached to for yeOver at Hollywood Reporter, they're reporting that Austin, Texas - based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is in negotiations to take over directing Battle Angel, the big sci - fi robot project that James Cameron had been attached to for yeover directing Battle Angel, the big sci - fi robot project that James Cameron had been attached to for years.

Early Access battle royale title Darwin Project switched over to a free - to - play model on PC effective immediately, with rewards for players who bought the game on the way.

Progressives and traditionalists battled over the curriculum in the first two decades of the twentieth century (practical vs. «book - based» learning), in the 1920s (project - based, experiential learning vs. traditional intellectual disciplines), in the 1940s (curriculum for personal adjustment vs. curriculum for knowledge and skills), in the 1960s and 1970s (student - centered, open classrooms and inquiry learning vs. teacher - led classrooms and basic skills), and in the 1990s (over standards, as described above).

Darwin Project is another game in the Battle Royale genre, and has only been available in Early Access for a little over 6 weeks.

Early Access battle royale title Darwin Project switched over to a free - to - play model on PC effective immediately, with rewards for players who bought the game on the way.

The Battle Royale game Darwin Project launched its Early Access phase in March, and just over a month later they've decided to drop the entry price and go Free to Play.

Amongst some 125 Artangel projects produced over the past decade and a half are Rachel Whiteread's House (1993 - 94), Gabriel Orozco's Empty Club (1996), Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001) in South Yorkshire, Francis Alÿs's Seven Walks (2005), Susan Philipsz's Surround Me (2010), and Katrina Palmer's End Matter (2015).

The Chinese project, called GreenGen, has gained a new partner, Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal company (the one battling the governor of Kansas over stalled permits for coal - burning plants).

The WWF, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and other multinational activist corporations battle mines in Romania, Peru, Chile, Ghana and Indonesia; electricity projects in Uganda, India and Nepal; biotechnology that could improve farm incomes and reduce malnutrition in Kenya, India, Brazil and the Philippines; and DDT that could slash malaria rates all over Africa, where it kills 3,000 children every day.»

The Climate Reality Project, a group overseen by Al Gore, is trying to win over public opinion by getting people to spread accurate global warming science in the comment sections of news stories online, where the battle rages with particular ferocity.

China's Three Gorges Dam — arguably the single-most environmentally and economically destructive project ever undertaken — was in the end completed, after a battle we fought alongside our colleagues in China over the course of 20 years.

As was evident in the lost battle over the construction of the Trans - Israel Highway, another privatized infrastructure project, the country's greens always seem to be a step behind quick global investors and multinational corporations.

The paper will continue to track the case, including legal battles over whether the project should move forward.

In a wide - ranging interview, he spoke of the anti-GMO movement, the ongoing battle over labelling requirements for GM foods, and some promising public - sector GM projects in the works.

A failed two - day court challenge to an anti-democratic, corporate legal attack is the latest chapter in the 2014 Battle of Burnaby Mountain over the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline expansion project.

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Notable mandates: Represented Halifax Regional Municipality in its 10 - year battle with the federal government over the under - estimation of the value of Citadel Hill pursuant to the Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act; represented the province of Nova Scotia in the purchase of Bowater Mersey Paper Co. Ltd., and on the NewPage Corp. matter; advised Husky Energy on its South White Rose Extension project; acted for Emera Inc. on the development and transmission of hydroelectric power from Muskrat Falls; acted for Dexter to formulate a 3P bid to complete the twinning of the Saint John to St. Stephen divided highway, and provided legal advice when it won the contract; provided all legal services to establish title to Loblaw Co. Ltd. properties throughout Atlantic Canada as part of the establishment of a proposed REIT; engaged by TransCanada Corp. as local counsel on the Energy East Pipeline project; acted for Emera Inc. on the development and transmission of hydroelectric power from Muskrat Falls; acted for Dexter to formulate a 3P bid to complete the twinning of the Saint John to St. Stephen divided highway, and provided legal advice when it won the contract; provided all legal services to establish title to Loblaw Co. Ltd. properties throughout Atlantic Canada as part of the establishment of a proposed REIT; engaged by TransCanada Corp. as local counsel on the Energy East Pipeline ProjectProject

His most recent celebrity project involved the divorce battle between Frank and Jamie McCourt over ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

It might be a coincidence that Oracle and Google are locked in a battle over Google's use of the Java API and have been for a number of years, but in the spring — around and about the same time that the Google Transparency Project started reaching out to journalists — Oracle and Google were in court.