Sentences with phrase «opposition to the project on»

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.

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

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.

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.

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..

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.

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.

B.C. Premier John Horgan isn't backing down on his opposition to the federally approved $ 7.4 billion project

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.»

Saskatchewan's fight against Justin Trudeau's carbon tax rests on the same argument as B.C.'s opposition to the Trans Mountain project, Chantal Hébert writes.

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.

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.

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.

McGuinty resigned only when opposition efforts to discover the true cost of cancelling two power projects evidently affected his will to go on.

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.

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.

The leader of the opposition, Victor Ponta, seized on the popular discontent and condemned the Rosia Montana project and the government that supported it, calling for an end to «the alienation of Romania's natural resources» and a move to more long - term development.

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 monitor insists, and Obama's Department of Justice agrees, that Westchester County officials must not only obtain financing for new low - income housing developments in Chappaqua, but must suppress local opposition to the project, the National Review article goes on to say.

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.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino dropped his opposition to Cuomo's Tappan Zee replacement project, announcing with his counterparts from Putnam and Rockland that he'll vote «yes» on the plan.

Edwards slammed Duffy for saying during an interview with the Rochester media that there is a «rule of law» and a «process» that needs to be followed for the mosque project, regardless of the strong opposition it illicits on both sides.

Syracuse Post-Standard: Opposition to gas pipeline project based on science, not misinformation (Your letters)

Nevertheless, the Bloomberg administration's decision to push Empire Stores developer Don Capoccia to use all union labor on the project's construction struck many observers as unusual, given Bloomberg's general opposition to imposing those sorts of requirements on unwilling developers, his unwillingness in the past several years to subsidize retail projects, and Capoccia's longstanding preference for running an open shop.

On Thursday, the trio announced they had decided to drop their opposition and back the project after reaching an agreement with the governor that includes forming a panel to study the region's mass transit needs.

«The truck traffic isn't nearly as bad as it used to be,» Soltau said, «while, at the same time, a huge amount of local opposition, as you tend to see on new road projects, cropped up.»

Despite a passionate speech from Johnson and others expressing their vehement opposition to the project, many on the board viewed the development as an inevitability, and wanted to give conditions for it instead of issuing a blanket «no.»

The opposition have since Wednesday, December 7 called on the president to concede as they claimed their projected results gave their candidate a commanding lead.

But the project is maturing at a time when US public opposition to GM is on the rise.

It is impossible to have had a «conscious opposition to apartheid» and still have worked on studies that attempted to justify separate schooling, or on projects where black people were barred on the grounds of security.

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.

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.

It could be due to a range of factors, the scientists say, from «a well - financed opposition» to the Cape Wind project on Cape Cod, to increasing public awareness and concern about changing climate and «global warming,» to health impacts and the recent electricity rate hikes in Delaware.

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.

If we assume the call is for nations and states to ban any new coal, oil, and gas projects, this is a very welcome shift to seeking blanket bans explicitly on climate grounds rather than any piecemeal opposition to individual projects based on a variety of environmental issues.

Despite national and international opposition to the mega-project and a decided lack of international investors, the Chinese government began work on the Three Gorges Dam in 1994 and completed the project 20 years later.

The report, «Material Risks: How Public Accountability Is Slowing Tar Sands Development,» presents market analysis and industry data to support its estimates on lost sales revenue to the tar sands industry as public opposition creates delays and project cancellations.

The Surfrider Foundation has submitted comments to the California Coastal Commission and is encouraging public opposition to the project at the California Coastal Commission meeting on October 10th in Oceanside, CA.

Between plummeting renewable energy costs, uncharted electric vehicle growth, government commitments to decarbonization enshrined in the Paris agreement, and a growing list of fossil fuel project cancellations in the face of massive public opposition and bad economics, the writing's on the wall.

Opposition is also stalling the pipeline projects the industry needs to get its product to customers overseas and on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

A specific case in which envy seems to be a major factor in the development of opposition to a wind farm is the Ceres Project on SA's Yorke Peninsula, where some potential turbine hosts demanded more money than the proponent was willing to pay.

The Surfrider Foundation is calling on supporters to rally next Wednesday, November 14th in opposition of a proposed seismic testing project along California's Central Coast.

For the recently proposed US Cape Wind offshore turbine project, environmental, tourism business, and wealthy landowner interests seem to have allied in opposition based mainly on aesthetics.

While the climate speech isn't likely to touch on the Keystone XL oil pipeline, the controversial project that has spawned a massive opposition campaign among the president's liberal base, it is expected to involve these measures:

The coal industry's efforts to export huge amounts of taxpayer - owned coal from Montana and Wyoming to Asia has generated unprecedented opposition in the Pacific Northwest - tens of thousands of people have rallied, attended public hearings, and called on their elected officials to oppose coal export terminals that would disrupt and pollute communities and pose one of the biggest threats to the climate of any fossil fuel project in the world.

«Edison is not interested in a long - term contract with a 250 - megawatt project,» said Chris Williamson, an Oxnard consultant who has been working on the city's opposition to a coastal power plant.