Sentences with phrase «in opposition to the project»

Singh, who has long stood in opposition to the project on the grounds that it was approved under what he calls flawed environmental assessment rules adopted by the previous Conservative government, said Wednesday the Trudeau government should, in tandem with B.C., ask the Supreme Court for a reference to resolve what he calls jurisdictional issues.

Earlier in April the company announced it is suspending all non-essential activity and spending on the pipeline, in part due to «the continued actions in opposition to the project by the Province of British Columbia.»

We are aware that a taxpayer's petition was circulated and that 614 people signed in opposition to this project.

«The Save Guana Cay Reef Association (SGCRA), which mounted a groundbreaking five - year legal campaign in opposition to the project, warned of serious implications for the reef — recognized as one of the best dive sites in the world — as well as for the rest of the previously unspoiled island.

The Dalai Lama and other notables have also joined in opposition to this project.

Not exact matches

Fusion was initially hired by anti-Trump Republicans to conduct opposition research on Trump in late 2015, and Democrats took over funding for the project after the Republicans pulled out.

The federal government approved the expansion in 2016 but the project faces significant opposition in B.C. Thousands of people have been rallying to protest the project and Horgan has raised concerns about the pipeline's possible environmental and economic impact.

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

Kinder Morgan announced on Sunday that it was suspending all non-essential construction on the Trans Mountain project, and said it plans to consult with stakeholders on the viability of the $ 7.4 - billion project in light of continuing government opposition in B.C..

Likewise Ontario, already committed to phase out coal power by 2014, cancelled a project to build a gas - fired power plant in Oakville last year in the face of fierce local opposition.

A year of hellish relations with aboriginal groups; a possibly fatal public - relations cloud over the Keystone project, based precisely on the Harper government's poor environmental record; serious opposition in Europe to any extension in Canada - EU relations at the very same time we're trying to negotiate a trade deal; and a set of controversies that still motivate NDP supporters and the NDP caucus today, another year closer to a federal election.

Support for this project has dropped by six points among British Columbians (36 %, compared to 42 % in July 2015) while opposition has remained stable at 45 % -LRB--1).

Vancouver, BC — Opposition to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines has subsided over the past 10 months in British Columbia, with the province's residents now being staunchly divided on the project, a new survey from Insights West has found.

The resources they produce could be used to relieve capacity problems in the Northeast, but continued legal challenges and political opposition have stalled or slowed planned infrastructure projects such as the Constitution Pipeline and Access Northeast pipeline.

Enbridge's Northern Gateway project was next up, but stiff opposition from First Nations and environmental groups continues to keep it in limbo.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the UBIC, stated in a press release, «The UBCIC is opposed to the Enbridge Pipeline Project and stands with the many First Nations who are standing as a unified block in their opposition to this proposed Tar Sands pipeline.»

The Liberals claimed 17 B.C. seats in 2015 — nearly all of them in the Metro Vancouver region, which has been the seat of some of the most vociferous opposition to the TransMountain project.

The Canada - wide responses are similar to responses within British Columbia, where 54 per cent of respondents said they support the project, including in Vancouver and Victoria, where the majority of the opposition to the pipeline is centered.

With the deficit outcome for 2010 - 11 expected to be much lower than projected in the October 2010 Update, the Harper Government has more than enough financial room to «buy» the support one or two of the opposition parties.

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

The gas projects have encountered somewhat less opposition, in part because of the perceived lower environmental damage from a gas pipeline or tanker accident, but also because the economic fundamentals of gas exports provide more benefits to the local economy because much of the gas will come from BC fields and the need for construction and operation of LNG facilities on the coast.

In a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North DakotIn a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakotin 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakotin North Dakota.

On Saturday March 10th, I marched with thousands of people from all walks of life united in our opposition to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project.

Edith Nawakwi, a former finance minister in Zambia and now leader of an opposition party, said large infrastructure projects were often wasted opportunities that failed to lead to economic development.

Easy enough: Defence is hardly the opposition's pet, and the cuts merely slow the projected growth in defence spending, from the torrid to the slightly less torrid.

But instead of trying to build a national consensus in favour of projects like Keystone XL, the Conservative government demonized opposition to the pipelines in Canada.

In response to this past weekend's announcement by Kinder Morgan that it is suspending non-essential spending on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion until May 31, and the possibility the project could be abandoned after that date, Premier Brian Pallister is calling on the government of British Columbia to abandon its opposition to the project and for the Government of Canada to ensure the project proceeds to completion.

While counter-messages from the oil industry and environmental groups set the tone internationally, opposition to the pipeline by a handful of rural landowners in Nebraska is what ended up tying the pipeline project in the courts.

Despite the growth plan's preference for multi-family housing, such projects can now take more than three years to complete, double what it was 15 years ago, because of a surge in required documentation, out - of - date municipal zoning bylaws and residents» opposition to high - rise projects, according to development lobby BILD.

But Energy Transfer Partners now faces increasing opposition to two other pipeline projects — the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana, which would serve as the final leg of the larger Dakota Access system, and the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Pennsylvania.

In both cities, only about one in three said they strongly supported the project and outright opposition to the project was the highest among the metros surveyeIn both cities, only about one in three said they strongly supported the project and outright opposition to the project was the highest among the metros surveyein three said they strongly supported the project and outright opposition to the project was the highest among the metros surveyed.

One Baptist friend says it augurs ill for the Evangelicals and Catholics Together project if, in fact, there is a dramatic increase in five - point Calvinism, since most of the evangelical opposition to that initiative has come from Calvinists.

Among the many who agree that the message of the New Testament stands in stark opposition to the imperial project, there remain acute problems.

Andrew Dickson White, founding president of Cornell, for instance, published A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896) in which he projected into the past a supposed opposition of dogmatic Christianity to scientific progress.

In recent weeks, the government has been forced to reconsider its plan to set up Chinesestyle Special Economic Zones for foreign companies after the project ran into violent opposition from farmers facing eviction from their lands.9

My position from the beginning is that HGTV has the right to fire anyone who projects an image of ignorance, hypocrisy, and discrimination against some of their targeted audience in opposition to their desired image.

Realism today centers its attention on placating the Muslim world as it is, in opposition to the Bush administration's «idealist» project of exporting democracy.

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Cynthia Nixon announced her opposition on Thursday to a storage project for liquefied petroleum gas in Schuyler County — arguing that its construction would harm the Finger Lakes and its tourism - dependent economy.

Debt - relief campaigners projected a mock - up photo of Angela Merkel onto the German embassy in London last night, as news emerged that Syriza had effectively U-turned on its opposition to austerity.

Underpinning much local opposition is objection to diktat from distant bureaucrats in central government, but we need a way of gaining local approval without allowing a tiny minority a veto on projects of essential national strategic importance.

In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.

And when it is united in opposition to a government project, you know something is wrong.

Whilst in opposition to the then liberal government, current Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and his Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance of several political parties, vehemently protested against the Rosia Montana mining project, which was supported by President Traian Basescu and his Democratic Liberal Party (PDL).

Although plans to maintain the freeze on council tax and invest in mobile phone and science projects were widely trailed in the media, the address did not contain any of the moments which earned the chancellor a reputation for game - changing speeches in opposition, most famously for his pledge to raise the bar on inheritance tax.

He also helped form the Uptown Community Democrats club and was a founding member of activist group Northern Manhattan is Not for Sale, which is currently engaged in opposition to the proposed Sherman Plaza project in Inwood.

The Democrat announced his opposition to the project on Tuesday as opponents rallied in Albany.

Martins acknowledged that he «fought like hell» to stop the third track, but said opposition forced the LIRR and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to accommodate his concerns about the impact to local communities in their new project proposal.

The obstacle to this project is the Labour left — linked to the growing opposition to Blair's attacks on the welfare state in the labour movement.

The message urged the Governor to stop a controversial gas power plant project in Orange County that has received all state approvals and started construction despite intense local opposition.

The opposition movement to the hospital has fought the project for months, saying it will mire the city in debt and displace dozens of businesses that are operating within the proposed footprint.