Sentences with phrase «rail minister lillian»

Measures to improve ticketing information for passengers and make it easier for people to choose the best value fare for their journey were agreed earlier at a forum co-hosted by rail minister Paul Maynard.

Mr Reynolds announced this morning that he was resigning as Shadow Rail Minister because he wanted «more freedom» — and because of the dismissal of Mr McFadden as Shadow Europe Minister.

Shadow rail minister Jonathan Reynolds resigned in protest today over changes to Jeremy Corbyn's top team.

Shadow rail minister Jonathan Reynolds resigned the morning after the reshuffle was completed.

While Cameron ramps the rhetoric, Shadow rail minister Lillian Greenwood took to Twitter, insisting that the reason the public weren't buying HS2 because they don't understand the meaning of long words like «capacity» and «connectivity».

Theresa Villiers, who is now the Northern Ireland secretary, was the rail minister responsible at the time.

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CALGARY, Alberta, May 2 - Alberta will hold talks with rail operators and oil producers aimed at smoothing the path to get more crude moving by rail to market amid a transportation bottleneck in the Western Canadian province, Alberta's energy minister said on Wednesday.

On Monday, Alberta introduced legislation that allows the energy minister to use export permits to tell truckers, pipeline companies and rail operators how much of what products can be shipped when and where.

Bring back McTiernan and ask her to coordinate the next epic movement in rail transportation for Perth, is anyone else skilled and experienced as much as our previous planning minister?

Moe said he brought up the issue during a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week and urged him to pass an order - in - council that would mandate rail deliveries.

When Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt announced new regulations to phase out older rail tankers of the type that blew up at Lac Megantic last year, it wasn't a surprise for anyone familiar with the industrt play.

Rail unions notably called for a rally in Paris» city center to «put pressure on the government» before a key meeting with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe next week.

In an onboard interview with The Tyee, May talked about where Via Rail has abandoned Canadian passengers, about why she's running in one of the most staunchly Tory ridings in the nation, and about how she might go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the upcoming leadership debates.

While all the activism and heated government rhetoric has concerned pipelines, B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman has made clear his proposed moratorium on added bitumen transportation would apply to rail shipments, too.

He has properly railed against the short pants brigade in the prime minister's office, «masters half my age,» he said, telling him how to vote, what to say and what questions to ask in committee.

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's whirlwind visit to Canada last week — the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education andMinister Narendra Modi's whirlwind visit to Canada last week — the first bilateral visit by an Indian prime minister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education andminister in 42 years — saw the completion of several memoranda of understanding in a range of areas, including civil aviation, rail regulation, space co-operation, education and health.

Rather it would give the energy minister the power to determine what type of oil and how much of it is transported, and by which method (pipeline or rail).

It seems like such a short time ago that I railed against Jason Kenney's first tweet as Minister of ESDC.

Third, why does the Finance Minister want to create an independent CIDB that will focus only on «National Economic Development projects such as toll highways and bridges, high - speed rail, port and airport expansions, smart city infrastructure, national broadband infrastructure, power transmission and natural resource infrastructure?

With a severe infrastructure deficit impacting the productivity of our country, we are hopeful Minister Sohi's connection to Western Canada means that appropriate attention will be given to the ports, rails, and highway network that are crucial to doing business in B.C. and Canada.

Rev David Cameron, Minister at Queensferry Parish Church, said the new bridge was an impressive feat of engineering and the design complemented the existing road and rail bridges.

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The club had hoped to install 3,600 rail seats in the Smethwick End for home and away fans in time for the 2018 - 19 season, but Tracey Crouch, the Minister for Sport, decided not to modify the policy requiring seats in the top two divisions of English football.

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«These fare increases are being dictated by ministers, who now specify in minute detail what rail companies can or can't do,» he said.

Others have gone to proclaim Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former Rivers governor, as another «super minister», in view of his no less challenging Transport portfolio, under which is Aviation and Maritime, not to mention rail.

Deputy prime minister Clegg said Liberal Democrats keen to protect the environment would welcome the increased emphasis on rail.

Labour accused the prime minister of breaking his promise of capping rail fares, on the basis that not all fares are controlled by ministers.

Two Cabinet ministers and civil servants at the Department for Transport are fighting an increasingly bitter blame game behind closed doors over the collapse of the government's system for awarding rail franchises.

Finally, I acknowledge the great efforts and hard work of the Minister of Transportation, Chief Rotimi Amaechi and his team for ensuring that we realize our objective of providing a functional and efficient rail system to Nigerians.

ABUJA — MEMBERS of the adhoc committee of the House of Representatives on failed rail contracts have summoned the Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, Seyi Sijuwade; former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Mohammed Bello Haliru; and former Minister of Transport, Idris Umar, to explain their roles in the alleged N1 trillion rail contracts scam.

Sir Richard Branson's company, which successfully fought the government's initial decision to award the franchise to rival train operator First Group, has cut a deal with ministers which will see Virgin Rail run the lucrative train line until the end of 2014.

In a joint appearance at a railway depot at Smethwick, West Midlands, as the cabinet met to announce a # 9bn investment in the rail network, the deputy prime minister said the coalition had faced much more serious economic headwinds than it could have expected two years ago.

For every genuinely insightful former minister spilling the beans on what really went on at the heart of government, there are countless others who use their freedom from office to machine - gun former rivals, rail against the bungling bureaucrats who held them back from true greatness — or treat readers to a chronological account of every ministerial visit they made to various box factories around the country.

«I think if we'd had proper conduct of government, as happened before Brexit, no way would Whitehall have allowed a hard - right minister to have agreed the bailout of private rail companies,» he said.

The minister claimed that President Buhari was not even aware that rail line was going to pass through his hometown in Daura, Katsina State.

For the Lagos - Calabar rail line, the minister had said the CCECC would «commence the construction of the first segment with Calabar - Uyo and Aba - Port Harcourt, and this will include all the seaports on this route.

Also, the Minister of Information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, said the council approved the award of contract for the rehabilitation of Itakpe - Ajaokuta rail line and the completion of 12 railway stations in the country.

He also said the council approved another memorandum from the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, for interim construction of Nigeria narrow rail gauge system.

The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Wednesday, announced that General Electric, GE, would invest $ 2 billion in the country's rail projects.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and his counterpart in Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to connect the 36 states of the federation including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) by rail.

Also speaking at the hearing, the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said plans were underway to begin movement of petroleum products from Southern part of the country to the north by rail before the end of the first quarter of 2016.

The minister added the approval for the extension of the rail line to Kubwa and Wuse has been given.

And expect the always outspoke Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat and Pentecostal minister, to rail against the measure.

THE Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala, is expected to visit China to finalise the Chinese Nexim Bank credit facility to complement financing of the Abuja light rail project...

Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Minister, has noted that there are significant gaps in rail electrification projects with five lines missing from Welsh Government's National Transport Finance Plan 2015.

But Labour said it had announced rail electrification plans in 2009 and it was «a bit rich» for coalition government ministers to take credit now after presiding over «two years of dither and delay».

If you are using a rail station today, there's a fair chance you will bump into a cabinet minister.

According to Turner, ministers are wrong to present this as the biggest rail investment since the Victorian era.