Sentences with phrase «opposition to the project by»

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.»

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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.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton struggled with how to secure the endorsement of labor unions while announcing her opposition to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project they supported but environmentalists opposed, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks on Friday.

The city by the bay has long had a housing crisis, which has largely been the result of poor planning and local opposition to new housing projects.

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.

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.

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).

It's unclear if all of the projects will go through because of local opposition to power lines and a preference by some area residents for other sources of power.

CALGARY — Despite promises by Ottawa and Alberta to backstop the $ 7.4 - billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, proponent Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. said Wednesday the project now faces «unquantifiable risk» because of British Columbia's increased opposition.

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

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 Dakota.

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.

The plan has garnered widespread support among Long Island businesses, planning groups and laborers, but still faces opposition from some residents who live near the Main Line and would be most impacted by construction, which project officials say would last three to four years.

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).

Washington (CNN)- A Democratic group normally known for doing opposition research on Republicans is adding a new project to its workload, by stepping in to defend potential 2016 Democratic presidential contenders.

Former Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has been outspoken in his opposition to a gas power plant under construction in Orange County, says the project should be scrapped altogether in the wake of the corruption charges brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, which showed the company behind it, Competitive Power Ventures, allegedly bribed a former top aide to the governor, Joe Percoco, seeking favorable treatment from the administration.

Many of the large sects that the OP is referring to is backed by military powers such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, and most western nations are willing to project enormous power to protect their Muslim communities when they present a strong or even forceful opposition to extremists.

Executives and members of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Central Region, have expressed misgivings about outright lies being peddled by the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government officials who are trying to claim credit for projects initiated and completed by the previous administration.

By Sean Ryan and Paul Snyder The volume of opposition to using taxes to pay for the Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter rail line rose Thursday to match an increase in proposed project borrowing.

Congressman Eliot Engel, Senator Jeff Klein, Senator Adriano Espaillat, Assemblyman Jeff Dinowitz and Councilmember Andrew Cohen continued their fierce opposition to LG Electronic's proposed 143 - foot LG tower along the Palisades by filing a legal brief in support of environmentalists» efforts to end the project.

The state has two dozen design - build projects underway or planned despite opposition by some unions, architects and the state comptroller, who wants further study of its effectiveness before more agencies are allowed to use the design - build process.

Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).

The governor was asked whether he agrees with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's claim that the opposition to the Park51 project is being led by very small, vociferous voices.»

Remember, the PAC is always chaired by a senior opposition MP — currently Margaret Hodge, though the once future PM Harold Wilson once did the job — and its role is not to examine / criticise a policy but the cost - effectiveness of the project.

Another reason Rozzelle gave for NCZ opposition was that it ignores the proposed upgrades to existing transmission lines being advanced by the PSC as described in the Governor's «New York State Energy Highway Blueprint,» which aims to boost the load capacity high enough to meet projected needs upstate and down.

Citing the continual delays with the Yucca Mountain project, which the Obama administration mothballed in the face of Nevadans» opposition, Perry said in a letter to state lawmakers, «The citizens of Texas — and every other state currently storing radioactive waste — have been betrayed by their federal government... because a federal solution still does not exist.»

In Welsh's view, it's no coincidence that opposition to the U.S. renewable fuels policy has ramped up just as the three big cellulosic facilities — Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Dupont's Nevada, Iowa plant and the Hugoton, Kan. facility built by Spanish multinational Abengoa — are to begin producing the fuel.

Despite its initial opposition to the berms project, it fell in line with the prototype idea conceived by Admiral Allen.

In recent years, they have worked with a collective of performers and musicians in the group My Barbarian, creating projects including «Gods of Canada,» a super-heroic paean to Canadian liberalism commissioned in 2005 by the Power Plant in Toronto, Ontario; «Pagan Rights,» a quirky California dreamscape celebrating opposition to the Christian Right performed in 2005 at the Evidence Room Theater and UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Participant, Inc., in New York, and the Drake Hotel in Toronto; «Squirrel Radio Action,» a public radio send - up commissioned in 2005 by Pacific Drift on NPR - affiliate KPCC; «Medieval Morality,» a site - specific play at Los Angeles» MAK Center Schindler House in 2004.

And it is just this kind of opposition that is invoked by John Beardsley's catalog for the 1978 Hirshhorn Museum show Probing the Earth: Contemporary Land Projects, 6 identified by the Hirshhorn's then - director Abram Lerner as the first attempt to make «land projects... the exclusive focus of a major museum exhibitionProjects, 6 identified by the Hirshhorn's then - director Abram Lerner as the first attempt to make «land projects... the exclusive focus of a major museum exhibitionprojects... the exclusive focus of a major museum exhibition.»

Inspired by community opposition to a proposed baseball stadium project just north of Philadelphia's Chinatown, the exhibition and community protests contributed to the successful cancellation of the Chinatown stadium project.

Sleepwalkers was both inspired by, and offered in opposition to, the densely built midtown environment; it integrated itself onto the surfaces on which it was projected, and it challenged viewers» perceptions of architecture and public space.

Financing of coal plants by international lenders such as the World Bank and the U.S. Export - Import Bank has also been the focus of protests, including worldwide opposition to the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project in India and the Medupi Power Station in South Africa.

Dairy farmers in Illinois have the potential to earn tens of thousands of dollars a year by leasing land for community solar projects, but similar projects in other agricultural areas have faced steep opposition....

5.3 Governments will need to lead public opinion by making the connection between the widely recognized urgent need to address climate change and the specific projects required which could face public opposition.

A Westbound pipeline is stalled by First Nations opposition; and a pipeline headed to Canada's East coast is facing stiff resistance on several fronts, including in Ontario, where the energy board last week concluded that the project's risks outweigh the benefits.

Aug. 2017: Tens of thousands of Bay Area and California residents voice opposition to the proposed Phillips 66 SF Bay marine terminal expansion by submitting comments on the initial scoping of the project under review processes required by the California Environmental Quality Act.

A proposed hydro plant in Queensland was one of the very few government - backed projects of any description that appeared to me to be viable (I generally directed assessments of projects for Queensland Office of Cabinet or Treasury); it was scuppered by Green opposition.

There, strong local opposition to this plant backed by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has delayed construction over two years as residents refuse to sell their land as they protest the project.

The propose empirical model would suggest that the same IPCC projected anthropogenic emissions would imply a global warming by about 0.3 — 1.2 °C by 2100, in opposition to the IPCC 1.0 — 3.6 °C projected warming.

The action culminated with the unfurling of a floating banner near the site of the proposed Ludo coal - fired power station by a stand - up paddling group to convey Cebuanos» strong opposition to the project.

Industry opposition to the controversial mining project at Alaska's Bristol Bay is growing: by last May, dozens of jewelry retailers had vowed to not buy gold from what would be the country's largest open - pit mine and

Surprisingly, the project has faced little to no opposition by residents of Mesa, the nearest town.

«I feel I have no choice at this point but to do this to amplify the deep, deep opposition to this project that is felt by my constituents,» he said.

The proximate cause of this unusual Sunday uproar was Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.'s skillfully timed news release saying that if Canada can't quickly come up with a way to silence political opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project in British Columbia, it'll pull the plug on the plan by the end of next month.

Since then these risks and opposition to the TMEP project led by Indigenous Peoples has only grown.