These micro projects have become seeds of success for thousands of project owners.
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In the Sakhalin-1 project, for example, Rosneft and ExxonMobil are among five owners in an oil and gas project off the east coast of Russia, north of Japan.
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Local entrepreneurs become part-owners of the project.
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"God forbid we can spend billions on the project and not give the property owners a dime, " said the Karans' attorney, Peter Wegener.
Currently there are ways for solar power plant owners to crunch numbers to project how much electricity their power plants might generate year after year.
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The property has had several owners since work began on the project in 2007.
But he also acknowledged that the owners would be open to selling the project if the price were high enough.
Council deputy leader Graham Chapman said the city was determined to meet with owners to encourage them to complete the project.
In a case that was later dismissed, actress Tara Reid sued the owners of the Sky Las Vegas Condominiums project in 2005 for using her name alongside a lewd joke in an advertisment for the project.
Over the last year, since we started this project, we have met many of the co-owners (there will be 1, 500 when this is done) the vast majority of which are U.S. professionals, including doctors, lawyers, retired military officers and executives.
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Curley and his team needed the permission of the owners of the complex before committing to the costly project, but Mission Hills' chairman Dr. Ken Chu is an enthusiastic backer.
However, the project will not go ahead until the current private-sector owners of the derelict power station and the neighbouring Nine Elms site are themselves ready to go ahead with a massive redevelopment of the site, which is expected to create 16, 000 new homes and provide a new location for the US embassy.
But the government owned consortium behind the project, known as Norte Energia, which exists solely as the owners of Belo Monte, have friends in high places.
For example, in 2006, Russian environmental officials said that the owners of the huge Sakhalin-2 integrated oil and gas project had violated a number of environmental regulations.
While the app will be tested with and only be available to Volt drivers in Pecan Street project at first, OnStar hopes to make the app available for all Volt owners in the near future.
More than 1, 400 horse owners and trainers were surveyed to better understand attitudes toward NSAIDs, in a project sponsored by Merial, the maker of Equioxx (firocoxib).
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After an audit identifies energy- and water-saving opportunities, property owners wishing to pursue PACE financing enter into an assessment contract with CSCDA to finance the project.
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Though occasionally the Scientific American pile got upturned by an eleven-year-old searching for science-project material, as far as I could tell the National Geographic pile was never disturbed by its owners, and was there merely to ascend, ever higher.
Some companies, like Google, even emphasize in their promotion processes that an engineer has to demonstrate ownership in a project, which incentivizes engineers to define and prioritize individual projects so that they can be the indisputable owners of those projects and increase their chances for a promotion.
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