Sentences with phrase «physical transport infrastructure»

Together with a further # 5 billion of spending in the next parliament and # 20 billion from private investment, made possible by a deal with two groups of British pension funds, he unveiled a «huge commitment to overhauling the physical transport infrastructure of our nation».

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He also said the Federal Government had begun the implementation of the second national action plan to firmly establish the successes of the last one year, even as he said efforts were ongoing around physical infrastructure, especially transport connections and power.

Enron helped pioneer the trade in «physical» electricity, actual power available for purchase on the grid and only physical in the sense that the infrastructure to transport it is more visible than an odorless, colorless greenhouse gas.

Nick Moran of The Millions had interesting prospective, mentioning «The emissions and e-waste for e-Readers could be stretched even further if I went down the resource rabbit hole to factor in: electricity needed at the Amazon and Apple data centers; communication infrastructure needed to transmit digital files across vast distances; the incessant need to recharge or replace the batteries of eReaders; the resources needed to recycle a digital device (compared to how easy it is to pulp or recycle a book); the packaging and physical mailing of digital devices; the need to replace a device when it breaks (instead of replacing a book when it's lost); the fact that every reader of eBooks requires his or her own eReading device (whereas print books can be loaned out as needed from a library); the fact that most digital devices are manufactured abroad and therefore transported across oceans.

A) Physical impacts: Sea level rise, extreme events and hydrological disruptions, pose major challenges to vital transport, water, and energy infrastructure and can weaken states socially and economically.

Even if his reasons bear on transportation of physical, solid freight, one might argue that different considerations accrue with pipelines transporting oil and gas in liquid forms and facing particular business realities in the fact that they depend upon the laying down of massive amounts of new infrastructure in their construction.

Consequently, financial barriers constrain access to some services; (iv) People living in the outer suburban fringes of large urban centres, where public transport infrastructure is more limited, can experience difficulties in gaining physical access to services; (v) Workforce issues experienced by service providers can restrict Indigenous people's access to services.