Sentences with phrase «power over public services»

«Give people power over public services so that the services they receive become the services they need.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Public Service Commission plans to convert 50 percent of the state's power sources to renewable energy over the next decade and a half.

It's not just Iraq, but a series of decisions that have not stood the test of time over PFI, private contractors in public services, central control of power and money stymying councils from building social housing - the list goes on.

Instead, Miliband must stand against any attempts to further extend the power of private interests over our public services.

Cuomo's Public Service Commission also approved the $ 2 billion Blackstone electricity power line project over the objections of labor and environmental groups.

Backed up by new constitutional guarantees, Brown hinted, too, at giving the Scottish parliament greater power over the railways; party sources indicated that could allow a future Scottish government to bring rail services into some form of public ownership.

Former state Public Service Commission Chairman John O'Mara recently advocated having the power authority take over the reactor rather than allowing it to close.

The shift in power over the last 30 years from local authorities to schools means the largest volunteer force in the country has had to transform itself from «friends of the school», to a body capable of running a multimillion - pound key public service.»

The capitulation of local publications like this one to the travesty of releasing public funds to private institutions without public oversight to perform government services that are suppose to be available equally to EVERYONE, as said publications, like this one, seek the favor of the powers that be is equavalent to how the national media rolled over and played dead during the lead up to the Iraq war.

Management of the Rockaways» power grid has been taken over by PSEG Long Island, part of Public Service Enterprise Group, which in early October issued an updated plan called Utility 2.0 that aims to modernize the company's electric system and may open the door to a microgrid project, said Jackson Morris, formerly of Pace University's Energy and Climate Center and now director of eastern energy for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Over the course of the next few years, he stacked the Public Service Commission with appointees who had climate views similar to his, resulting in the PSC's rejection of six new coal - fired power plants.

The Florida Public Service Commission rejects the permit application of Florida Power & Light's 1960 MW Glades Power Plant citing, in part, uncertainty over the cost of future carbon regulations.

The Alabama Public Service Commission unanimously approved today a proposal by Alabama Power to secure up to 500 megawatts of renewable generation over the next six years.

As reported by Green Wombat's Todd Woody, Arizona Public Service, the state's largest utility, plans on paying around $ 4b over the next 30 years to power 70,000 homes.

In 1979 he was tapped to start the legal department of Stewart & Stevenson Services, a newly public manufacturer and distributor of industrial, oilfield, military and power generation equipment, where he remained to oversee all legal aspects of the company as it grew from $ 300 million to over $ 1 billion in revenue.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

While the community of bitcoin developers continues arguing over solutions for the block size problem, the wider public is rather focused on the disruptive and innovative power of the bitcoin's blockchain technology and speculates on its possible applications, the sharing economy and P2P lending services being just two of them.