Sentences with phrase «proposed road projects»

Conservationists warned that proposed road projects pose additional threats to endemic species in Sumatra.

Such omission can lead to serious bias in the assessments of environmental impacts as well as the economic viability of proposed road projects, especially in situations where there is a latent demand for more road capacity.

So - called roadless oil extraction, in which oil companies use offshore exploration and production methods and leave less of an imprint on the area being drilled, is a viable alternative, argue Swing and others associated with Scientists Concerned for Yasuni, a network of independent researchers that first came together in 2004 to stop a proposed road project inside the park.

Not exact matches

Of course China can generate more demand by exporting more capital to the developing world, as it proposes to do with OBOR and the New Silk Road projects.

The 450,000 - square - foot downtown centerpiece was proposed at the current site of the village campus at 50 Raupp Blvd. and neighboring golf course along Lake - Cook Road at an estimated project cost of $ 350 million.

The Plan Commission on Monday recommended that village trustees approve Deer Park Town Center, a 502,000 - square - foot project proposed for 75 acres at U.S. Highway 12 and Long Grove Road.

A gas station proposed for the northeast corner of Route 53 and Butterfield Road near Glen Ellyn has officials at the Butterfield Park District rallying its members to oppose the project.

State Senate Republicans won't block the Long Island Rail Road's proposed third track, clearing the last major hurdle to move the $ 2 billion project forward.

The 2018 Proposed Budget prioritizes funding $ 69.1 million for capital projects and infrastructure work, of which $ 36.5 million would be used for road and bridge work.

Please be advised that a public hearing will be held by Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency on the 5th day of September, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Brunswick Town Hall, 336 Town Office Road, Brunswick, NY in connection with a proposed project to be undertaken by ValuSpace Troy, LLC.

Setting the records straight, the state government said the proposed N20b, when approved, will be utilised for reviving ongoing projects on road, education, health, energy, water and sports as well as new ones that were stalled following the drop in FAAC allocation to the state from N3.2 b monthly to N1.8 b monthly.

In reality, the # 28 billion earmarked for new roads will be mainly used to deliver projects already proposed by the Highways Agency.

The group projects that its plan would yield roughly $ 1.47 billion in annual revenue and proposes directing $ 1.1 billion to public transit and the rest to the city's bridges and roads.

Please be advised that a public hearing will be held by Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency on the 1st day of June, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Schodack Town Hall, 265 Schuurman Road, Castleton, NY in connection with a proposed project to be undertaken by Questar Schodack 2018, LLC.

An amendment to Milwaukee County's 2018 proposed budget would eliminate a handful of road projects at the expense of scrapping a controversial $ 30 increase to the county's wheel tax.

Erie County Legislature Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo announces the proposed 2014 Road Project List includes funding to repair roadways throughout his district.

Walker has proposed addressing the shortfall by delaying ongoing road projects and borrowing about half a billion dollars.

In 2006 ESFRI published a road map, listing 35 proposed projects deemed by peer review to be worthy of pan-European interest.

In Kamchatka, the key mines are the current Aginskoe project, the Shanuch cobalt - nickel deposit (including the road that connects them to the main Kamchatka road in Milkovo), and the Asachinski gold mine proposed in Southern Kamchatka.

To err is human, and if we're going to force people to live under such scrutiny, I propose that we run a 5 - year pilot project with all politicians having to record their every move on the road... But even without forcing anyone to do anything, the benefits of these cameras are big enough that many will voluntarily use them, especially once they are less expensive.

«Our study suggests... [the] initiative will not significantly reduce deforestation in northern Sumatra and will have little impact on orangutan conservation,» David Gaveau of the University of Kent, UK, and the Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program told environmentalresearchweb, «because firstly a large amount of forest inside the proposed REDD project area is protected de facto by being inaccessible; and secondly much of northern Sumatra's lowland forests will remain outside of REDD and will be exposed to the combined expansion of high - revenue oil palm plantations and road networks.»

4 Construction of vital community infrastructure will be halted New school, hospital, road and workplace projects will be delayed and blocked by the Greens» proposed - planning policies.

It also proposed one turbine on one parcel east of Dyer Road approximately a half mile north of Altamont Pass Road, and the project area extends to the northeast and northwest from the north end of Dyer Road to the County line.

As a firm believer in the concept of additionality - basically, would the proposed renewable energy project have happened under «business as usual» conditions - he explained that offsets would only gain the upper hand through: «public perception (from closer press scrutiny of REC financial figures); possible consumer fraud lawsuits testing deceptive marketing statutes; and perhaps most importantly a thriving domestic offset market built around regional climate schemes such as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, AB 32 in California, the Western Climate Initiative, and possibly a national cap - and - trade scheme down the road.»

One project might be the wind farm proposed by Iberdrola in northeastern North Carolina, within commuting distance of Hampton Roads workers.

Significant matters / transactions include: Advised Xstrata South Africa (Proprietary) Limited on its offer to purchase Lonmin plc's entire issued share capital, # 5 billion Advised Telkom SA Limited on its unbundling of a 35 % stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited, R35 billion Advised Edgars Consolidated Stores Limited on its acquisition by Bain Capital, R25, 5 billion Advised The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited and FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) on the introduction of BEE equity participation in Sasol Limited and their arranging financing therefore, R25, 4 billion Advised FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Nedbank Limited (acting through its Nedbank Capital division) as lenders to Richards Bay Titanium (Proprietary) Limited and Richards Bay Mining (Proprietary) Limited, R19 billion Advised Citibank N.A. on a bridge loan granted to Turquoise Moon Trading 427 (Proprietary) Limited by Citibank N.A. and JP Morgan Chase, R10 billion Advised British American Tobacco plc on its secondary listing on the JSE, R550 billion Advised Pioneer Foods Limited on its listing on the JSE Securities Exchange, R6 billion Advised the South African National Roads Agency Limited in respect of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project involving the construction and upgrade of the Gauteng freeway and the procurement of an open road tolling system, R44 billion Advised Absa Bank Limited (acting though its Absa Capital division), FirstRand Bank Limited (acting through its Rand Merchant Bank division) and Vunani Capital (as co-lead arrangers) and the South Africa National Roads Agency Limited (as issuer) on the establishment of its South African Guaranteed Domestic Medium Term Note Programme and the subsequent issue of notes thereunder, R32 billion Advised Shoprite Checkers (Proprietary) Limited on the proposed Brait Private Equity private equity buy - out (this did not proceed), R12 billion Advised Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited and various shareholders on the acquisition by Capitalworks Private Equity SP GP (Proprietary) Limited and Old Mutual Life Assurance Company South Africa Limited of a 20 % equity stake in Reclamation Holdings (Proprietary) Limited from various shareholders, R511 million Clients include: Multinationals, listed companies, financial institutions, entrepreneurs and Government