Sentences with phrase «big cost overruns»

The company has drawn heat from environmental groups claiming Bechtel's processes are unsafe and from officials blasting it for big cost overruns.

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Toshiba is seeking a minimum of $ 18 billion for the world's second - biggest producer of NAND chips and wants to get the deal done as quickly as possible to help it cover billions of dollars in cost overruns at now - bankrupt nuclear unit Westinghouse.

The big savings, he argued, come from ensuring that the risk of cost overruns falls on those most able to prevent them and from speeding up the construction timeline, not from private capital per se.

Because it just sounds like a big expensive government boondoggle, and it sounds like the state is going to start to build the convention center and there are going to be cost overruns and it sounds like every big public works project gone bad.»

The big Ferris wheel on Staten Island is a year away from turning, but millions keep on burning in cost overruns.

«After the telescope was nearly killed due to cost overruns, no one wants to think big anymore.

«After the telescope was nearly killed because of cost overruns,» Mather says, «no one wants to think big anymore.»

By then the 2003 destruction of the space shuttle Columbia, coupled with cost overruns in several of NASA's big science missions, put tremendous strains on the agency's funding.

«They have had continuing cost overruns, and the satellites are consuming a bigger share of the NOAA budget.

Nuclear power was simpler two decades ago, because utilities built their own plants and could usually pass costs through to captive consumers no matter how big the overruns.

Massive cost overruns on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

That said, the biggest advantage to governments of a P3 are the risks (cost overruns, time delays, poor maintenance) shifted to the private operator.

Disregard the Budget The biggest «don't» of all is to not make a clear budget or plan for cost overruns.