What's more, even before Sempra began building the plant, it hedged away all its project risk by leasing out half the 1 billion cubic feet per day of capacity for 20 years to Shell.
Similarly in today's economy the smallest malfunction can put a whole project at risk.
"Karzai's performance in recent years -- his inability to improve governance that is seriously putting the U.S. project at risk of failure -- means he will be a liability for the Republicans to have a warm relationship with, " said Koofi.
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So, enter the Cambridge Project for Existential Risk, a joint initiative between a philosopher, a scientist and a software entrepreneur, wants to create a multi-disciplinary research center dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks around the spread of robotic technology.
Organizations should always use a consistent cloud opportunity identification process to reduce the risk of project failure by leveraging data from successful cloud implementations.
"The Girls of Destiny Reading and Etiquette Club, " in microcosm, offers a solution to many of the ills which our analysis of the interviews in the "Girls at Risk" project revealed, and meets many of the recommendations which the team subsequently made.
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But he largely eliminates the risk that a project's failure will jeopardize his other assets.
Its one big risk-taking project renewing the west coast main line is running into delays and cost overruns.
Christopher Holton is a Vice President with the Center for Security Policy and directs its Divest Terror Initiative and its Shariah Risk Due Diligence Project.
It is much more challenging to provide income streams to retirees as they get older but many people project their returns on their risk tolerance today.
"We, the taxpayers appear to be taking all the risk on a project which the business behind the concept can't even begin to fund itself, " it said.
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Just as any other publisher would, Gipps is paying an advance and royalties to Random House and it is he who is assuming the risk in this project.
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By the same logic, the more mines a firm is running or developing, and the more countries it operates in, the less risk each individual project poses to profits.
The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who said the project was "not without risk" but "the right way forward" for higher education in Singapore.
In 1948, six Boeing engineers worked for weekend in a hotel room to produce a 33 page proposal, which included moving from turbo-prop to jet engines, and accompanied this proposal with a balsa-model prototype, in order to salvage a team project that was at the risk of failure.
The return should reflect such risk factors as the project's technical complexity, the agency's management capacity, the likelihood of cost overruns, and the consequences of under- or non-performance.
Planners have also expressed concerns over traffic congestion and road safety as well as the project's impact on flood risk, trees in the area, wildlife, landscape, ground stability and potential contamination.
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Going forward the bank should actually apply the Equator Principles, a voluntary credit risk management framework with a set of guidelines for environmental and social risk assessment in sustainable project finance activities.
"All children are at risk of drowning, but the majority of the children that the Josh Project serves are minority children, who we have found are more at risk, " Butts said.
Leadership transitions generate risk because new leaders need to project strength, a need that complicates the compromises necessary to lower bilateral tensions.
It all comes back to risk: who loses if a project goes wrong, and how much they earn if it goes right.
In other words, the foreign companies incur the risk of investing resources into a project with none of the potential rewards associated with high oil prices.
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Looking at 2, 250 individuals from the Washington Heights-Inwood Columbia Aging Project, researchers found a 40 percent lower risk among those who stuck to this diet, scientists reported in the Annals of Neurology in 2006.
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Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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Nobody will do that until the likelihood of success is reasonably assured, a lot of the risk has been taken out of the project, and the play has been demonstrated to have value.
In fact, SLCMs permit virtually every combatant ship in the inventory to enjoy a crucial capability which once resided exclusively in the relatively small number of aircraft carriers: the ability to defend itself and to project naval power over great ranges by holding at risk enemy shipping and targets ashore.
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As a result, software houses bear all the risk if, as is usual, a project takes longer than planned.
Eventually the work showed that smoking did increase the risk of cancer, and funders for the project pulled out, Dr. Lichtenstein says.
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TruSolar is working to standardize risk assessment and develop scores for each solar project that would be similar to a credit rating, thereby streamlining the entire development and financing process.
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