Sentences with phrase «major engineering schemes»
The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.
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Genius Conseil president Michel Lalonde said a number of major engineering firms — including global giant SNC - Lavalin — participated in a collusion scheme to raise the price of construction projects in Quebec.
Assembly Democrats are meeting again at the capitol this afternoon to try to resolve what's become a leadership crisis after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested and charged with engineering a major corruption scheme.
A chartered engineer with significant leadership, HR and logistics experience, Major General Nitsch is accountable for the Army's core education programme and its apprenticeship schemes, on which over 15,000 personnel are enrolled.
This is certainly true of three major ethical dilemmas now complicating the climate change debate: how to balance the rights and responsibilities of the developed and developing world; how to evaluate geo - engineering schemes designed to reverse or slow climate change; and how to assess our responsibility to future generations who must live with a climate we are shaping today.