Discussion of the controversial
cost estimates appears to have been put aside until the schedule has been resolved.
«Pay Now or Pay Later» also states that «
the cost estimates appear to be reliable within approximately 5 — 10 percent.»
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, when officials from Health Canada
appeared before a House of Commons committee, they acknowledged that it is hard to
estimate the actual
cost but that they knew that the agreement would increase the
costs of drugs in Canada.
Finance's
estimate for 2012 - 13
appears suspect, considering the incremental increase in
cost estimated for 2013 - 14, which is not supported by their projected increase in corporate profits.
We think quantitative
cost - effectiveness
estimates are often useful as factors in charity evaluations, but we are concerned that assigning specific figures can be misleading and
appear to be more important in our evaluation than we intended.
While not stated in their platform document, their plan is
estimated to
cost over $ 1.5 billion annually, and this does not
appear to include the necessary investments in workforce training.
Lawmakers are already questioning the tuition plan, saying Cuomo's
estimate of a $ 163 million a year
cost to the state
appears low.
It
appears the
estimated cost of redeveloping LaGuardia Airport has climbed by about $ 1 billion.
The IOM / NRC total
appears to put NCS on a lower
cost path than earlier NIH
estimates, which predicted the study could
cost $ 3 billion.
But it would also
appear that there's a financial to dive through as the upcoming gun - a-thon has so far
cost an
estimated $ 105 million to develop.
In some cases, new regulations may serve to mitigate emissions at higher - than - projected levels; other regulations may not be implemented or proposed at all, as the
estimated impact
appears too minimal in relation to the
cost.
The latest issue of Passive House Plus includes several examples which
appear to contradict this claim — including a block - built passive house in Co Kildare
estimated by builder Pat Doran Construction, a CIF member, to have
cost $ 20,000 less to build than the department's own suggested specification from its regulatory impact analysis on the 2011 changes to Part L of building regulations.
The new
estimate appears likely to be far more accurate since it is based on actual experience in Western Europe where similar efforts have been pursued for a number of years and rates have increased rapidly where there has been extensive use of non-hydro «renewables,» and includes all the hidden
costs such as rebuilding the electric grid that are so difficult to model using engineering studies.
[WWF have claimed that the long - term
costs could be offset by energy savings in all areas, but this
appears to be based largely on wishful thinking and, at any rate, no discounted cash flow analysis was made to include the investment
cost, nor was any
estimate provided for the amount of global warming that would be averted.]
In the Chancery Division of the High Court, Rory Brown
appeared for the liquidator respondents to an application by solicitors for
costs of compliance with orders obtained by the liquidators for production of documents relating to an alleged international fraud of an
estimated # 500,000,000.
Comment: Several commenters noted that the Department did not
appear to include the
cost of establishing storage systems, retrieval fees and the
cost of searching for records, and that these
costs, if included, would significantly increase the Department's
estimate.
However, this
estimate appears to reflect
costs before computerization.
Many
appeared to assume that all
costs associated with medical record confidentiality should be
estimated.
GMO
appears to be targeting customers with deep pockets — as a single two - year contract is
estimated to
cost roughly $ 5 million (550 million JPY) each, excluding maintenance expenses.
For example, if the «Loan
Estimate» amount of «Total Closing
Costs» disclosed under § 1026.38 (e)(2)(i) is $ 12,500, and the «Final» amount of «Total Closing
Costs» disclosed under § 1026.38 (e)(2)(ii) is $ 12,500.35, then even though the table would
appear to show a $ 0.35 increase in «Total Closing
Costs,» no statement of such increase is given under § 1026.38 (e)(2)(iii) so long as the actual, non-rounded
estimate (i.e., the
estimated amount of «Total Closing
Costs» that would have been shown on the Loan
Estimate to two decimal places) is equal to $ 12,500.35.
I am in North Carolina so need to determine if I can even get a slab here (there
appears to be no distributors or fabricators in the state — closest is either Virginia or Georgia) and also get
estimates on
costs.