Sentences with phrase «national infrastructure investment»

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 made available $ 1.5 billion for National Infrastructure Investments, otherwise known as BUILD Transportation Discretionary grants, through September 30, 2020.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 appropriated $ 500 million for National Infrastructure Investments, otherwise known as Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grants.

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In addition to tax reforms to help pay for the measure, she'd develop a national infrastructure bank to help shore up private investment in federal projects.

As the National Post story puts it, Bell is ending throttling because of investments in its infrastructure and an «effective implementation of usage - based billing practices.»

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is now investigating whether Broadcom's $ 117 billion conquest attempt could have national security consequences, given Qualcomm's sensitive government work and the role it plays in developing technology behind next - generation 5G telecom infrastructure.

For instance, local and national governments would receive the help they need to meet the vast capital costs of investments required to protect cities and infrastructure from increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

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.

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

«The costs of inadequate infrastructure investment are exhibited all around us,» said a report by the National Economic Council and the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

It also calls on the government to provide increased support for communities to report on the status of infrastructure and establish project selection criteria that prioritizes funding requests based on national economic interest, return - on - investment, and job creation.

The FCC said it will consider the National Broadband Plan's recommendations on ways to remove barriers to infrastructure investment and promote competition in the telecommunications markets.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder's substantial water entitlements and allocations have been acquired through the Australian Government's investment in water - saving infrastructure and water buybacks throughout the irrigation districts of the Murray - Darling Basin, as part of national water reforms (as per the Water Act 2007 and the Murray - Darling Basin Plan).

«The RIC will administer the government's remaining $ 2 billion investment in concessional loans from 2018 — 19, as well as the $ 2 billion National Water Infrastructure Loan Facility.

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

While majorities are in favour of allowing foreign investment in manufacturing and the financial sector, the prospect of foreign companies investing in Australian agriculture, infrastructure projects such as ports and airports, and the National Broadband Network (NBN) provoked significant opposition.

Monday 16.00 - Internal Market, Infrastructure and Employment: Women on Boards, Karen Jochelson, Director of Economy and Employment Programme, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC); Scarlet Harris, Women's Officer, Trades Union Congress (TUC); and (at 5.00 pm) Liz Murrall, Director, Corporate Governance and Reporting, Investment Management Association, and Joanne Segars, Chief Executive, National Association of Pension Funds Ltd (NAPF).

For this reason, we welcome the # 23bn National Productivity Investment Fund, to be spent on improving innovation and infrastructure over the next five years.

'' [The Commission] HEREBY RECOMMENDS that the United Kingdom take action in 2016 and 2017 to... address shortfalls in network infrastructure investment, including by delivering the priorities of the National Infrasinfrastructure investment, including by delivering the priorities of the National InfrastructureInfrastructure Plan.

The National Infrastructure Plan 2011 stated that almost two thirds of expected investment between 2011 & 2015 will be privately funded and the remainder will be either partially or fully publicly funded.»

Prime minister David Cameron is delivering his speech on infrastructure, which includes a call to introduce private sector investment into the UK's national road network.

«What I believe here is that this gives the backing to the MTA and the Long Island Rail Road to stop payments, and as I've been reading in the news and hearing on the news is Amtrak, after the governor and our national representatives... have gotten together calling on Trump for federal funding, which I fully support, Amtrak came out and said that they have the money to do this fix,» said state Sen. Elaine Phillips, the bill's sponsor who also chairs the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee.

Many - not all - believe aid provided earlier can sometimes prevent larger and longer term damage to a national economy by preventing long term unemployment and loss of job skills and prevent a lack of investment in infrastructure, health, and education.

Given the nature of the power and gas industry (vital national infrastructure, long - term investment, and all that) the answer probably falls somewhere in between.

He warned that the Chinese could use their role in the programme (designing and constructing nuclear reactors) to build weaknesses into computer systems which allow them to shut down Britain's energy production at will and»... no amount of trade and investment should justify allowing a hostile state easy access to the country's critical national infrastructure.»

Gillibrand said Democrats» emphasis on government investment in job training, infrastructure and tax credits is the key to national economic growth.

«In this period of austerity, national economic uncertainty, unpredictability of federal funding, and rising social service costs there is an increasing risk that funding for infrastructure investments will be curbed to dangerous levels,» Ravitch said in a press release.

«We have also committed to investing these recovered funds on Infrastructure projects and our National Social Investment Programme.

In outlining numerous successes The Bronx has seen in recent years, Borough President Diaz noted considerable job growth and new attention from national and international media, as well as billions of dollars in new investment that has been leveraged to create jobs, improve infrastructure and build thousands of units of affordable housing.

In a speech aimed at offering new hope for Britain's economic future, Mr Cameron set out plans for a forthcoming national infrastructure aimed at levering in # 200bn of long - term investment from the public and private sectors.

The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has appointed a new chairman and members for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, the Investment and Security Tribunal and Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission.

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.

«States realize that they want access to this information; they want to have a better network and a better approach for applying information from the national climate assessments to their own infrastructure and other investment needs, so this is a way for them to make the statement that they want to participate and see this move forward,» Moss said.

«Building a pipeline network in China comparable to the U.S. would be a $ 500 - billion investment,» Sandalow says, although the Chinese have an excellent track record of building large and expensive infrastructure projects quickly, such as a national high - speed rail network that was completed in five years.

The study, supported by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation (NSF), found that most of the coastal communities do not have an overarching strategy for building urban disaster resilience and lack coordination between multiple urban systems, including land use activities, natural environments and public infrastructure investments, particularly in Texas.

«It strikes a responsible balance between the modernization and safety of our nuclear weapons, advancing our national infrastructure, and strategic investments in basic science and energy R&D.»

Despite an expansion and investment in primary health infrastructure through the National Rural Mission since 2005, there are wide disparities between and within states.

Funding is targeted toward national security efforts — including nuclear weapons activities — and energy and water infrastructure investments.

Moreover, both government and the private sector are making investment decisions today — whether in property, long - term infrastructure or regional and national supply chains — that will be directly affected by climate change in decades to come.

SciLifeLab is a new national strategic investment in life science research that demands large - scale and specialized infrastructure.

Managing and developing NanoMalaysia Centre and other approved Strategic Infrastructure and Facilities for the NND [National Nanotechnology Directorate Division] Pre-commercialisation and commercialisation of nanotechnology products Education and public awareness programmes Bringing in venture funds and international investments in nanotechnology Building capacity and R&D facilities Health, safety and environmental initiatives International linkages and networking

to consider should be the following: 1) the achievement of full employment or reduction in the unemployment rate; 2) increase the income distribution measured by the Gini index; 3) reduction of the levels of crime in society; 4) increase in service levels of education, health, housing and transport to the population; 5) increase of the investment in infrastructure, education, health, housing and sanitation; 6) increase in the HDI - Human Development Index, used by the United Nations, which takes into account GDP per capita, the longevity of people and their education (measured by illiteracy rate and the enrollment rates at various levels of education); and 7) increase of GNH (Gross National Happiness) indicator, which analyzes 73 variables that contribute most to the goal of achieving the well - being and satisfaction with life (See GNH posted in website

Over the past three years, All Kinds of Minds has made a multimillion - dollar investment in building our research infrastructure and fielding three national independent research studies.

«This is the single largest and most comprehensive investment in research by any Australian Government and it builds on the $ 189 million we announced last year for computational infrastructure and astronomy facilities as well as the $ 150 million per annum of indexed funding certainty we delivered in 2016 for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy under the National Science and Innovation infrastructure and astronomy facilities as well as the $ 150 million per annum of indexed funding certainty we delivered in 2016 for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy under the National Science and Innovation Infrastructure Strategy under the National Science and Innovation Agenda.»

«Even though K — 12 schools are the largest public building sector in the U.S. and represent the second largest category of public infrastructure investment, there is no current dataset at a national level, and many states could not report on the size of their public school inventory,» said Mary Filardo, author of the report and executive director, 21st Century School Fund.

Today, President Obama will deliver remarks in front of Washington, D.C.'s Key Bridge and urge Congress to pass the transportation piece of the American Jobs Act, which will make an immediate investment of $ 50 billion in our nation's transportation infrastructure and a $ 10 billion investment to create a bipartisan National Infrasinfrastructure and a $ 10 billion investment to create a bipartisan National InfrastructureInfrastructure Bank.

It will be coupled with the establishment of a national infrastructure bank, which will finance investments that are regional or national in scope.

WASHINGTON — Today, President Obama will deliver remarks in front of Washington, D.C.'s Key Bridge and urge Congress to pass the transportation piece of the American Jobs Act, which will make an immediate investment of $ 50 billion in our nation's transportation infrastructure and a $ 10 billion investment to create a bipartisan National Infrasinfrastructure and a $ 10 billion investment to create a bipartisan National InfrastructureInfrastructure Bank.

Municipal issuers have a key role to play in terms of: • Low - carbon technologies • Pollution control • Climate adaptation, such as disaster prevention and recovery We will seek to avoid purchasing the relatively few government - issued bonds that are explicitly issued to finance the development of projects, such as nuclear power plants or casinos, which are fundamentally misaligned with our investment objectives Sovereign Debt National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social National governments around the world issue bonds (debt) to finance a wide variety of public goods including education, infrastructure, national defense, the judiciary and social national defense, the judiciary and social welfare.

National and state investment in and support of CCS are completely consistent with the Donald Trump Administration's goals to invest in infrastructure projects, continue U.S. reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs.

Projects that combine national resources with international development initiatives such as the World Bank's Water Global Practice or the Asian Development Bank's Water for All program could leverage additional investment in the future resiliency of vital infrastructure.