Sentences with phrase «big infrastructure projects»

We also intend to use the strength of the British balance sheet to take on some of the risk of big infrastructure projects.

My expertise is in both electrical and automation of big infrastructure projects.

Other reasons for the rebound in deforestation include illegal logging and the invasion of public lands adjacent to big infrastructure projects in the Amazon, such as roads and hydroelectric dams.

As those figures show, none of the policies attracts majority support, and only one is backed by a plurality — borrowing more to boost spending on big infrastructure projects such as roads, rail and broadband.

Big infrastructure projects like high speed rail, super-fast broadband, carbon capture and storage.

The Labour leadership think accepting that we don't have money to spend on HS2 would make it more difficult to make the case for other big infrastructure projects.

And it would be consistent with the White House's desire to speed up permitting reviews for big infrastructure projects, even if their approach to reviewing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and natural gas export applications falls short of their professed goals.

In his own department, transport, he said the cuts would effectively mean a halt to new road building - but he said big infrastructure projects that helped the economy would still be prioritised.

In the aftermath of Bridgegate, Cuomo has consolidated power at the Port at the same time he is prioritizing big infrastructure projects that require Port resources.

This includes big infrastructure projects to control floods, like levees and breakwaters; retrofitting individual homes or moving homeowners away from floodplains; and restoring wetlands to serve as natural water sinks.

They reined in lending on big infrastructure projects following the credit crisis.

One would be to get the state to routinely incorporate projections of increased sea levels and heavy downpours when building big infrastructure projects.

If we're serious about oil sands development — and IHS» report strongly suggests Americans should be — then we should quit politicking to death the single biggest infrastructure project at hand that would facilitate oil sands transportation to the U.S.

It's very easy for politicians to talk about big infrastructure projects, much more difficult to actually make them happen (ahem Big Dig ahem:).

In fact, our last big infrastructure project was in the 1980s, when the Tennessee — Tombigbee Waterway connecting Alabama's Tennessee River to the Mississippi waterway was completed.

Deforestation is back on the rise due to the weakening of key forest protection legislation, the timber sector is full of illegality and big infrastructure projects like hydrodams are bringing environmental and social damage.

The governor also reminded everyone of his plan to fix the «miserable» Penn Station, and other big infrastructure projects.

And continued political tension will delay and complicate government action on big infrastructure projects, among them work on Bangkok's mass transit system.

«I can well understand how people severely affected by this would want to object in the strongest possible terms,» she says, «but you can't do a big infrastructure project like this without somebody being affected.»

This week on the Campbell Conversations, we're joined by Jack Kelly, who has written an intriguing new book on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in American history, and the biggest in upstate New York; the Erie Canal.

«For some reason I can't understand, the governor thinks the Thruway Authority can sponsor one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the country ($ 3.9 billion) and not impact price,» said McMahon.

George Osborne in particular was wanting to have Chinese investment, big infrastructure projects to show off to the Tory backbenchers.

State government has utilized design - build to save time and money on big infrastructure projects and New York City wants similar power to streamline the process by awarding one contract for project design and execution, instead of engaging in separate processes and contracts.

Mayor de Blasio last year had set aside $ 100 million a year in city spending for NYCHA upgrades to leaky roofs and other big infrastructure projects and had hoped the state would match it, which it did not.

Historically, the federal government has funded 75 percent of such big infrastructure projects, matched by 25 percent of local funding evenly split between state and municipal governments.

To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

The Crossrail project is the biggest infrastructure project in the history of Britain, a new subway line running right under London.

Our firm has participated in the biggest infrastructure project in Croatia, namely the granting of the concession for the construction and operation of the new passenger terminal of the Zagreb Airport.