Sentences with phrase «own emergency powers»

In a sense, stationing diesel - fueled generators outside key buildings to provide emergency power is a start down this path.

In April, Assistant Secretary for International Markets and Investment Heath Tarbert said the United States is considering ways to restrict sensitive Chinese investments in the United States by invoking an emergency powers law and bringing forward some security review reforms for corporate acquisitions.

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 - The federal government will cover 100 percent of emergency power and public transportation costs through Nov. 9 for the areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hard by superstorm Sandy, according to the U.S. senators of the two states.

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 - The federal government will cover 100 percent of emergency power and public transportation costs through Nov. 9 for the areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hard by superstorm Sandy, officials said on Thursday.

The order is the first taken under the Puerto Rico Emergency Moratorium and Financial Rehabilitation Act enacted this past week, which gives the governor emergency powers to deal with the fiscal crisis, including the ability to declare a moratorium on all bond payments.

For now, the US Army Corps of Engineers is concentrating its power restoration work across four fronts: providing emergency power, getting existing power plants up to speed, rebuilding power transmission lines, and repairing distribution systems.

As Roosevelt exercised emergency power to deal with the banking crisis, revise the relationship between American currency and gold, and establish the Tennessee Valley Authority, editors hailed the arrival of «a new United States.»

During times of domestic or foreign crisis, most constitutional governments have conferred emergency powers on the chief executive.

«The situation in Turkey right now is so fluid, and they are under emergency powers.

The deal was for AMERI to rent 300MW of emergency power to the country during the power crisis in Ghana.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

Superstorm Sandy uncovered deficiencies in our fuel distribution system, including the lack of emergency power at gas stations.

FEMA administrator Brock Long told NBC that FEMA had been working to fix roads, establish emergency power and deliver fuel to hospitals.

He has accepted significant contributions from Ravenel Boykin Curry, a wealthy supporter of education reform and trustee of Girls Prep charter school, which made the news in 2010 when Joel Klein used emergency powers to displace the public school program for autistic children with which Girls Prep was co-located.

The United Nations on Tuesday Match 20, 2018, called on Turkey to end its 18 - month - old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in «profound» human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting impact on the country's socio - economic fabric.

Such outages are rare, and an existing emergency power system that is nearing the end of its useful life is currently used for such situations.

However, the country has seen some stability in the power sector since the arrival of an emergency power barge from Turkey and some independent power producers (IPPs) which contribute to the national grid.

The problem eased after the arrival of two emergency power ships at the beginning of 2016.

For example, he pledged a far - reaching investigation of the Legislature if it refused to approve ethics changes, and he warned that if the Legislature did not accept budget cuts, he would impose them unilaterally using his emergency powers as governor.

Remember that the Ameri plants were deployed within 90 days, the shortest emergency power plants deployment in Ghana.

Government officials from the Volta River Authority, Ministry of Power, Attorney General Department, Public Utilities Regulatory Commission, Energy Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency among many others helped in putting the BOOT Agreement with the Ameri together to generate 250 megawatts emergency power plants to fix the dumsor problem.

Ameri was to build, operate, transfer of a 250 megawatts emergency power plants for the Government of Ghana through VRA.

He continued: «In a way through this change of the process from an emergency power plant to an independent power plant».

The government is refusing to active its emergency powers over the impending fuel strike at Grangemouth, with confidence high panic - buying can be avoided.

[DHS], you have blown it big time,» said Stringer, who said he was angry that neighbors and elected officials were not consulted and that DHS used its emergency powers to push the decision through the Comptroller's Office in May.

It has been a year of hard work; Hard work that has made us to achieve the fastest mobilization of emergency power in the history of Ghana.»

June 2007, in response to the energy crisis, a total of 200 megawatts of generation capacity had already been installed through the Emergency Power as well the Mines Reserve Plants of 126 mw and 80 mw capacities respectively

Remember Gordon Brown gave the chancellor emergency powers to override any BOE decision on rates if it is in the national (that is political!)

Ameri, the company at the centre of the controversial emergency power agreement with the government of Ghana during the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, has no expertise in building and managing power plants, according to Philip Addison.

The Vice President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Bright Simons has explained that about five companies were involved in the procurement and installation and operation of the emergency power plant, Ameri Power.

Then those rules — presumably different from the legislation the City Council held a hearing on today — will be passed by the City Council and signed by Mr. de Blasio in New York City, while Mr. Cuomo will «use his emergency powers to make the policy statewide.»

As we have reported, the DOE decided to use its emergency powers to proceed with Girls Prep's expansion program, in spite of a state ruling invalidating the plan.

Less than two days after the Commissioner issued his rebuke, news reports revealed that Chancellor Klein would use «emergency powers» granted to the Chancellor in State Education Law, and proceed with the expansion.

Dicker says Cuomo is getting the landlord lobby to agree to the change by threatening to use his emergency powers to kick the issue down to the New York City Council, which inevitably would lead to legislation much more favorable to tenants.

Mr. Hammond notably seconded the motion for the agreement between the Mahama administration and the Africa and Middle East Resources Investment Group's (AMERI Energy) to rent the 300MW of emergency power from AMERI at the peak of the country's power crisis which cost $ 510 million.

At the press conference the Borough President will address Chancellor Klein's use of emergency powers, immediate steps the DOE must take with the P.S. 94 school community, and broader problems the Department must resolve that impact District 75 schools serving high - needs students citywide.

Unshackle Upstate, a Rochester - based pro-business group, urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration in a letter sent this week to use his emergency powers to rebuild roads and bridges damaged by floods throughout northern New York.

5Zika vaccine: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has been highly critical of the federal response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, used his emergency powers Thursday to direct $ 25 million in state money toward helping to develop a vaccine.

Developers Phinergy and Alcoa envision the design as a range extender for electric vehicles, providing more than 1,000 miles of range on a charge, or as an emergency power solution, since the cells have a theoretically infinite shelf life.

Duplicate server racks, fibre - optic communication systems and emergency power supplies allow programmers to upload software on the fly without interrupting power production.

«Among the 20 issues identified is the need to raise awareness of biosecurity across Europe and the implementation of European - wide legislation for this; the dedication of resources for the long - term management of invasive species; the development of new technology to detect new invasives, and early warning systems to alert EU states to their spread; new European - wide risk assessment methods; emergency powers to eradicate alien species once they become established; and effective communications to raise awareness of invasive species, so the public will know what to look for and how to report it.»

It means loss of off - site AC power — power lines are down — and then a subsequent failure of emergency power on - site — the diesel generators.

«Africa could skip the 20th century for telecom and power wires,» he says, and emergency power could be beamed anywhere to the surface.

In addition to grid applications, Natron Energy is promoting the technology for data centers» emergency power, and for heavy equipment such as electric forklifts, among other possible applications.

The U.S. Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO), in a report last November, related desperate actions by TEPCO crews to contain the reactor accident in the critical first week of the crisis, as they tried to operate crucial valves and instruments with truck batteries; hauled massive emergency power cables over flooded passageways where manhole covers had been dislodged; and faced a series of hydrogen explosions and sudden spikes in radiation.

For instance, affected countries should give the outbreak top political priority and consider invoking emergency powers, the document says.

Nuclear power stations, however, are outfitted with multiple emergency cooling systems, as well as with emergency power supplies, should power be disabled.

The president's leadership helped put a lid on what might otherwise have been escalating attacks on Arab - and Muslim - Americans, although laws requested by the administration and enacted by Congress may have granted the government excessive emergency powers.

The move, in which the Philadelphia School Reform Commission invokes emergency powers, comes after the teachers» union spent more than a year resisting concessions...

The power supplied by the vehicle can also be used as emergency power in homes.