Sentences with phrase «effects on infrastructure»

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It is a major infrastructure project and it's going to have positive effects on commodity producers in emerging market countries in Africa and Latin America in particular, and they continue to demand finished goods from the US and Europe to help produce this road.

«Even if they did, or if Mr. Trump were able to pass a major infrastructure spending package, they would prove inflationary, causing the Federal Reserve to respond with a faster pace of monetary tightening that would offset the positive effect on growth,» the Economist Intelligence Unit report says.

Because it reduces price and increases volume, it suggests that if Uber ultimately succeeds, the company could have a much bigger impact on urban mobility, labor, the environment, local economies and the national transportation infrastructure than we've all supposed — and its effects could confound the expectations of its harshest critics.

Many analysts are referring to this as the «Modi effect,» in honor of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, elected two years ago on promises to reinvigorate business growth by cutting red tape and increasing infrastructure spending.

Barbuda's hotel infrastructure was also damaged, but with less than 100 hotel rooms the overall effect on tourism as a whole is minimal.

After hearing evidence and considering submissions for 180 days, the Board arrived on 209 conditions it deemed necessary to mitigate the risks and adverse socio - ecological effects associated with the pipeline and its associated infrastructure to ensure the project is in the public interest.

11742), relating to identification of critical infrastructure where a cybersecurity incident could reasonably result in catastrophic regional or national effects on public health or safety, economic security, or national security.

This is having a negative effect on China's competitiveness at the very low end of the value chain, but higher wages are feeding into higher consumption, while the authorities continue to target transportation and environmental infrastructure for investment.

Tax cuts always effect assets prices, regulations are estimated to account for up to 35 % of building new construction costs for homes in some locations and though federal deregulation may not impact local regulations as much it does have a multiplier effect on the economy just like a tax cut does and anticipation of an infrastructure plan the scale of this administration's, though it hasn't been passed, would also have an anticipatory effect on leading indicators like stocks and other commodities that raise costs, which we have already seen.

This will have a catastrophic effect on the oil industry through price collapse (an equilibrium cost of $ 25.4 per barrel), disproportionately impacting different companies, countries, oil fields and infrastructure depending on their exposure to high - cost oil.

It's anybody's guess what effect caps will have on local public infrastructure across northeastern Illinois.

Without action to reduce this risk, across the UK, the effect on our homes, businesses, communities, infrastructure and way of life is potentially devastating.

County Executive Picente will be on hand to discuss national strategies for Transportation, Infrastructure, Legislative priorities and other topics effecting Counties with a National Perspective

There is an overlying awareness when assessing New York's environmentally progressive work - in - progress that the effects climate change and fossil fuel energy industries have on the environment, infrastructure and public health don't stop at state lines.

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Pattern for Progress issues a report analyzing how solid Rockland's educational infrastructure is for the coming decade Declining enrollment rates and a shrinking tax base will have a profound effect on Rockland County's school districts over the next eight years, according to a report from the Hudson Valley non-profit Pattern for Progress.

Transport software and services provider Yotta predicted that the election result will have some knock on effect to the infrastructure industry.

Kathmandu's basin of soft sediments helped amplify low - frequency waves, as seen in its destructive effect on taller buildings, says Youssef Hashash, an earthquake engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and the lead author of a report published last week that documented the quake's damage to infrastructure.

«Any related changes to positions where storms make landfall will have obvious effects on coastal residents and infrastructure.»

Changes in infrastructure and land use had little effect on the poverty in surrounding communities.

However, the results of the study also suggest that tools, infrastructure and other resources also have a positive impact on software quality, and the methods of development were found to bring little effect on software quality.

«The potential of replacing structural materials with these new composites could have a profound effect on sustainable materials as well as our nation's» infrastructure,» Kumar says.

The study gives rise to additional questions and uncertainties, for example what effects sustained low prices could have on long - lived energy infrastructure.

, global transportation infrastructure, the effects of sea level rise on sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.

Scientists in the northwest have made a new discovery about how whirlpools function, which could have important knock on effects for the design of flood defences, energy systems and other large scale infrastructure.

This study is one of the first to demonstrate that shale gas development can affect songbird reproductive success and productivity, both directly through the presence of fracking infrastructure and indirectly through effects on habitat quality.

Unfortunately, the effects of overtraining can reach very far into the body: it's been known to break down the body's basic infrastructure (its nervous system, endocrine system, etc.), which is what the muscles (and indeed, all of the body) rely on to power their function and grow.

From under - skilled infrastructure projects to falling business productivity caused by a lack of analytical and data - literate staff, the knock - on effects to the UK could be severe.

Yes, not having adequate funding has an effect on decisions regarding expansions for schools that don't have enough room, updating security systems which are critically important with the increase of school shootings or improving infrastructure issues that charter schools inherit from previously closed traditional public schools.

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high - speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996 - 2007.

5 pm Playa Summit with Emma Geller Green (Sara Blazej and Zach Smith) in conversation with Domingo Castillo (Artist and Director of Noguchi Breton), Naomi Fisher * (Artist and Director of Bas Fisher Invitational), Colin Foord (Coral Morphologic) and Felice Grodin * (Artist and Co-founder AST) about the rapidly changing infrastructure of the city of Miami, how spectacle effects the natural environment, and the effects of Art Basel Miami Beach on the city — in the spirit of Gaian interconnectivity.

In order to come to the RIGHT solution as we develop a new energy infrastructure, we need to acknowledge the reality of the effect of fossil fuels on climate.

Particularly so when planning authorities spend, or plan to spend, large chunks of cash on long - term infrastructure without considering its effects.

NCAR's story is just one of many examples of the effect that years of sub-inflationary funding for NSF have had on this nation's scientific infrastructure.

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

Plus, there's the direct effect of climate change (and associated sea level rise) on agriculture and infrastructure and living.

Acid rain, which is the type of rain that possesses high levels of hydrogen ions, still has noxious and vile effects on streams, lakes, forests, aquatic animals, infrastructure and plants.

The so - called 100 - year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7

Other responses to this open - ended question included damage to plants, animals and the landscape (12 % of those asked) and effects on human health and local infrastructure (6 % of those asked).

The study presented in the journal BioScience analyzed 276 published peer - reviewed articles that looked at the landscape effects of oil, natural gas, and wind production infrastructure worldwide, in order to compare their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services — wildlife mortality, habitat loss and fragmentation, noise and light pollution, invasive species, and changes in carbon stocks and freshwater resources.

(3) identifies any use by the State or Indian tribe of allowances distributed under this section for the reduction of flood and storm damage and the effects of climate change on water and flood protection infrastructure.

(C) the team's proposal to integrate social and physical sciences research to address the effects of climate variability and change on the ecology, economy, infrastructure, and communities in the region.

Such a large buildout of renewable infrastructure will surely have significant effects on agriculture, offshore fisheries, property values, human health, and biodiversity.

Businesses already suffer significant costs from the effects of climate change, including rising health care costs, more stress on the energy grid, and disruptions of transportation infrastructure.

5.3.7 In the Polar Regions, the main effect foreseen is a reduction in thickness and extent of glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost, and associated impacts on infrastructures, ecosystems, and traditional ways of life.

This demonstration plant could therefore have a transformative effect on the power system, and incentivize investments in critical infrastructure like geological storage, which will ultimately help bring down the cost of carbon removal.

Farther south, New York City has taken numerous steps to implement PlaNYC, a far - reaching sustainability plan for the city, including amending the construction code and the zoning laws and the implementation of measures focused on developing adaptation strategies to protect the City's public and private infrastructure from the effects of climate change; 26 some major investments in protection have even been conceptualized.

Harris et al, 2013 - Comparing the effects of infrastructure on bicycling injury at intersections and non-intersections using a case?crossover design.»

The fund, according to the White House, would go to research on the projected impacts of climate change, help communities prepare for climate change's effects and fund «breakthrough technologies and resilient infrastructure.»

However, as noted energy economist Mark Jaccard has pointed out, building new oil infrastructure does indeed have a direct effect on climate change.

The knock on effect of this could be hugely detrimental for Ireland's ability to continue developing an infrastructure for renewable energy.