Sentences with phrase «global construction pipeline»
«When we're going up in the cycle, investors are very concerned with how much development is planned,» says Ford, who launched his inaugural global construction pipeline report in November 2008.
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A report by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute stated that the pipeline «will create no more than 2,500 - 4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada's own data supplied to the State Department.»
While this project will threaten our groundwater, waterways, and general health, increase gas prices and world dependency on oil, and further forestall a necessary shift to a green economy (Read more: TransCanada: «Keystone XL National Security Risk»), President Obama is expediting pipeline construction and has remained mute on global warming.
Environmentalists seem to be obsessed with stopping the construction of domestic pipelines in this country, regardless of what they carry, what fuels they displace, and how global greenhouse gas emissions may be affected.
Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.
Finally, construction of the pipeline would give politicians another excuse to roll back efficiency standards and investment in clean alternative energy, exacerbating global climate change.
The global pipeline of new hotels planned or currently under construction is at about 11,130 properties — or 1.9 million rooms, according to Portsmouth, N.H. - based consulting firm Lodging Econometrics.