Sentences with phrase «more infrastructure because»

He talks about Klein's $ 1.3 billion reduction in infrastructure spending from 1994 to 1997 and his $ 18.9 billion spending on infrastructure from 1998 to 2006 without any reference to the need for even more infrastructure because (1) Klein failed to maintain schools, roads and hospitals (in fact he blew the hospitals up) and (2) Alberta's population ballooned by 500,000 during that period.

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The shift became even more pronounced in the 2000s because the Internet's rise made it possible for hackers to more easily break into corporate infrastructure and steal financial information.
While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.
«But without huge upgrades it's hard to think about an increase in ridership because you can't squeeze any more trains on the existing infrastructure,» Puentes said.
Right now clean meat is much more expensive to produce than traditional meat because of scaling and infrastructure.
But because several of Google's data centers are in more out - of - the - way places — at least for cable infrastructure — like Oregon or the Southeast, the company must build its own cable network.
«We haven't raised our prices in seven years, and the reason we're able to do that is because we keep on investing in infrastructure and equipment to make us more efficient,» says Marc Kadonoff.
I'd say earlier this year we were thinking that this second half of calendar 2012 would be a little bit more robust for enterprise infrastructure customers, just because the spending levels have been so low.
Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.
Irwin says truck companies will have to watch the market carefully, because tougher regulations on diesels or an improvement in charging infrastructure could make electric trucks more viable very quickly.
Beijing is more likely to believe that the economic slowdown was caused by been weakness in domestic real estate and infrastructure construction, and not because exports are weak, and the latest trade dataconfirms the relatively strong export performance.
This is quite a different to mentioned above project because it allows to sell bitcoins for cash using the existing infrastructure, which is a network of more than 6000 traditional bank ATMs in this case.
We also have some of the best transportation infrastructure in the world (a little worn because Klein decided it was more important to pay off the debt at the expense of our infrastructure) That occurred during the Lougheed years where we had a Premier with a long term vision.
Such an infrastructure is desperately needed because more than 70 % of Filipinos lack access to a bank account and just 3 % of them use credit and debit cards (as per the NOAHCOIN whitepaper estimates).
According to Mr. Prentice, it is because there are currently more sellers than buyers in the oil patch (and with the new Investment Canada restrictions, Canada has just ruled out an important set of prospective buyers); because Canada has an infrastructure deficit (not enough facilities to get the product to the right markets — Keystone XL etc); and due to the impact of foreign investment rules.
Particularly in more rural areas — anywhere between the coasts really — it's super difficult to invest in private companies because angel investing infrastructure is extremely limited, if not not non-existant.
They will also use transportation infrastructure more efficiently, because cars will be able to travel faster and closer together.
And then, the new T - Mobile, they claim it will expand their workforce as they spend tens of billions of dollars investing in the new network build - out, how they'll have an even bigger retail footprint, because they start dedicating more attention to rural customers, employees building out the infrastructure, stuff like that.
«So when we come alongside government and secular partners we have our foot in the door already because we've been there for years so our campaign is to strengthen that infrastructure even more and that trust factor kicks in and more lives can be saved.»
It sounded catchy but before long Mark Zuckerberg changed it to «Move fast with stable infrastructure», leaving behind the entrepreneurial approach of his youth for something more acceptable because as he said «You have to be stable in order to get to the next level».
I left my church after eleven years because it no longer felt right to endorse a church infrastructure designed to lend support to the staff's need for praise and affirmation more than it lent support to the community.
The dairy giant said it has devoted the maximum possible volume of its 22 billion litres of milk to production of milk powders to capitalise on the stronger prices but has been unable to shift more than 70 per cent of production to powders because of the nature of its existing infrastructure.
However, Mr Hendy said the price in the Riverina would have jumped significantly since because of improved waterflows and productivity, more infrastructure investment and rising demand.
It didn't help that Greece frittered away three years after being named the 2004 host city in 1997, especially because Athens needed more infrastructure work than any previous Olympic city, according to Denis Oswald of Switzerland, the IOC's coordination commission chairman.
Since April, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said the city has filled more than 3,200 potholes more than usual because of new technology that provides better data for fixing infrastructure.
There should be no new fossil fuel infrastructure because greenhouse gases are heating up the atmosphere, causing polar ice to melt and violent, unpredictable weather events which cost us more in the long run.
So they can't maintain it, and the next time it is challenged — and there is no doubt in my mind it will be challenged severely — it's going to fail again, and the consequences are going to be worse because we've allowed more population and more infrastructure.
Many more were injured or became ill because of the extensive damage to the country's health, water treatment and food production infrastructure.
Yeah I find it better than Philippines dating sites because more Thai girls have mobile 3g so they're online more, and less flaky in turning up to dates with the better infrastructure, skytrain / subway.
The technological infrastructure should allow you to overcome the most common IT challenges that plagued teams in the past because the LMS vendor places a high priority on forward - thinking technologies and trends that make the platform more effective.
«We will invest $ 1.2 billion in new schools and school upgrades over the next four years, because we know that having access to new, modern learning facilities helps young people reach their full potential — this investment will fund more than 200 school infrastructure projects around the state.
This last seminar was crucial, because though bond money paid for «hard» infrastructure, such as grading, irrigation lines, trees, plants, ponds, and plantings, the more ambitious a particular school's «soft» green dreams, the more adept supporters needed to be at grant writing.
Kia says it chose these additional markets because of existing charging station infrastructure and customer interest in the Soul EV, and plans to sell the electric car in even more markets starting in 2016.
yes there is an initial carbon cost, but these cars will run years and thousands of miles and a city full of them the air would be pristine, thats what matters and more and more they will be charged from a wind and solar expanding infrastructure so its all going to get cleaner and cleaner as time and uptake catches on, this is the future and more manufacturers will now grab this and realise that all there models will go this way, not for enviromental reasons but because they will be cheaper to run, service, performance, every which way they are a win.
«In fact, there may be diseconomies of scale for larger public pension plans because of the complexity of implementing their investment strategies, which include contracting out for external experts — a practice that has become increasingly popular, with plans investing more in non-traditional assets such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity,» said the report.
Because of the business model employed by MLPs, which is focused on providing pipelines, storage facilities and other infrastructure components, MLPs are less vulnerable to the ups and downs of commodity prices and are thus able to capture a more stable stream of revenues.
Unemployment is low, workers have more money in their pockets because of tax cuts and Congress might increase infrastructure spending this year.
And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.
But the US far more so because of the massive economic boost in terms of jobs and much - needed infrastructure, as well as the critical need for longer term energy supply security.
But in most of the UK and North America, cycling is a lot more dangerous than it should be, not only because of a lack of cycling infrastructure, but a conscious effort by the motoring world to get bikes off the roads, and to create a culture of «normalization»:
Diseases such as dengue can now be found in more countries, the rain patterns are changing and there are key infrastructure works at risk because of the rise of the sea level.
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
Life could be prettier, healthier, and more harmonious because of an improved energy infrastructure, but this infrastructure needs to evolve via inspiration, NOT fear.
Its landmark 2006 report, Parks at a Turning Point — Restoring and Enhancing New York's State Park System, revealed that because the budget for infrastructure projects had not risen for a decade, state parks suffered from more than $ 140 million in deferred maintenance.
Activists are also fighting Rover and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects on climate change grounds because the new installations can have a lifespan of 50 years or more, locking in new carbon emissions over the long term.
But in developed countries, and increasingly in emerging markets, city dwellers are able to be more environmentally friendly than those in the countryside, because of the concentration of people, vital infrastructure and amenities, and the efficiencies that this proximity brings.
This could be because wealthier people tend to take more vacations, while better technology, such as what's found in countries with cleaner energy infrastructures, only weakly offset increasing emissions.
Developing countries are often more sensitive to climate risks, such as drought or coastal flooding, because of their greater economic reliance on climate ‐ sensitive primary activities, and because of inadequate infrastructure, finance, and other enablers of successful adaptation and mitigation.
But many more are detrimental, largely because our society and its infrastructure were designed for the climate that we have had, not the rapidly changing climate we now have and can expect in the future.
Around 25 per cent of electricity bills are driven by these «super peaks», because we built infrastructure to meet peak demand and generation is more expensive during peaks.
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