Sentences with phrase «first national infrastructure»

David Quarmby also told the Luncheon that never have we needed a vision for our future infrastructure more than we do now, and welcomed the National Infrastructure Commission's consultation on its first National Infrastructure Assessment.

AUSTRALIA is unlikely to be badly bitten by the Millennium Bug, according to information presented at the first National Infrastructure For - um on Y2K readiness.

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Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

This must be a first for a critical UK national infrastructure.

The huge wealth of American state assets provided the backing that enabled a publicly owned institution to raise the financial resources to achieve specific objectives — first in creating the essential infrastructure of the national economy and then in transforming that economy into an engine for winning the war.

Internal papers obtained by the Guardian show they called it «the first time domestic extremism took place against national infrastructure in the county».

On top of the electrification of the great western mainline and the other capital infrastructure projects the UK Government has already committed to Wales, I am pleased that the Queen's Speech will introduce a National Insurance Contributions Bill that will support over 35,000 businesses in Wales to hire their first employee or expand their workforce.

The Former First Lady and flagbearer of the National Democratic Party, (NDP) Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings says when a government provides infrastructure for its people, it does not automatically better their lives.

The National Democratic Congress is parting themselves at the back for creating 800 thousand jobs in the first tenure of President John Mahama through the provision of infrastructure and creation of enabling business environment for private entities.

The starting point is our National Infrastructure Plan - the first time any government has ever drawn together an audit of what we have, what needs to change and what the timescale should be.

It is the first time the National Climate Assessment will include a section on the risks to infrastructure, a broad term that includes most major societal investments.

Earlier this year, a pivotal framework for infrastructure maintained by the Institution of Engineers, the Australian Rainfall and Runoff national guidelines, were updated for the first time since 1987, a process that took three years.

INGESTEM, the national infrastructure in biology and health certified by the «Investissements d'Avenir» program and the Ile - de-France Region (DIM Biothérapies), is the first French network of therapeutic innovations based on pluripotent stem cells, human tissue engineering and their biomedical applications.

«We are excited to have put together this national offer of technologies and services during the first year of us being a National infrastructure», says Mathias Uhlén, Director at Scinational offer of technologies and services during the first year of us being a National infrastructure», says Mathias Uhlén, Director at SciNational infrastructure», says Mathias Uhlén, Director at SciLifeLab.

In addition to her duties as a member of the West Virgina State Board of Education, she served as West Virginia's first lady; a commissioner on the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service; the chairwoman of the Governor's Healthy Lifestyles Coalition and the West Virginia Citizen's Council on Children and Families; and as co-chair on the Governor's 21st Century Jobs Cabinet and the Intellectual Infrastructure of Vision Shared.

Of course quality was the first selection criterion to bring these 36 artists from different countries together, but for curator Janice Whittle there was another important reason to select the artists she liked to present: she wanted to give the floor to artists who have not had many chances over the years to show their work because of the limited infrastructure of the island: Barbados — as most of the Caribbean countries — does not have a museum for modern or contemporary art; a National Gallery has been a subject for discussion for countless years, but it never got of the ground; the Queen's Park Gallery — a governmentally managed institution — was closed for years and commercial galleries came and went.

First, in an unexpected u-turn, the government agreed to ban fracking in national parks during Monday's Infrastructure Bill debate.

At a reception during Iceland's first conference on how to power vehicles with «environmentally friendly fuels» in Reykjavik, September 17 2007, Thorkell Helgason, Director General at the National Energy Authority, hears about the infrastructure needed for electricity.

First, and most politically, we need to recognise that anthropogenic climate change is driven primarily by the economic logic of global fossil fuel extraction, and only to a lesser extent by the social practices and infrastructure that shape national emissions.

Alternative Financing Options for Capital Infrastructure, Citizenship as Catalyst for Nation - Building, Dialogue with National First Nation Organizations ~ Accountability, Outreach and Service...

The project is the first step in a goal to develop a national connected car network that would allow vehicles to «talk» to each other and a highway infrastructure, alerting one another to traffic or weather problems.

Over the first half of 2017, there is little doubt the U.S. economy will enjoy a stimulus, largely via a combination of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure and national defense.