In response, the EC has stated that it will insist upon these new guidelines if the multi-billion dollar project hopes to qualify for European financing.
For example, the Porto Maravilha, an eight billion reais project due to be completed by 2016, is stitching the revitalised Guanabara Bay harbourfront to the downtown district.
The mining engineers on the multi-billion pound Crossrail project are certainly a passionate lot.
Chile's Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a multi-billion dollar dam project in Patagonia, in the south of the country.
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In November 2008, for instance, Agassi appeared with then San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to announce a billion-dollar project to build an electric car network to link San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland.
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The billion-dollar project is the brainchild of Dennis Tito (he of ISS space-tourism fame), and is seeking private and charitable funding in time to make the proposed launch window -- opening on January 5, 2018.
The group estimates it has distributed 1.7 billion Bibles in the project's 104-year history.
At the first annual meeting of the Long Term Investors Club in Paris a few months ago, Professor Rajenda Padchauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and, as such, co-recipient, with Al Gore, of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) mentioned a remarkable development project called Lighting a Billion Lives.
M. plant closed, will be financed as part of a billion-dollar federal and state highway project.
After his experiences with Fokker, which cost Daimler-Benz DM2.3 billion, this is perhaps the most unpalatable project for the born-again Daimler chairman.
It also opens the gate for renewed project funding worth a couple of billion dollars a year to Pakistan by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.
Last year his group and the Hong Kong government announced that they were jointly developing the multi-billion dollar CyberPort, a high-tech incubation project.
The hedge fund manager, presented as a man who made his first billion shorting subprime, also spoke of a new project, not yet public, called LightSquared.
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Councils have also been affected by the government's decision to scrap the multi-billion pound Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project, which led to the cancellation of hundreds of schemes.
In western Canada Apache is also working with Chevron on developing the Kitimat LNG project to provide an export route for 50 billion cubic feet of gas reserves in that region.
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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.
The project consists of three mines holding 7.92 billion tons of coal resources, a planned 300 mile railway capable of carrying 60 million tons annually, and a port built to the same capacity at Abbot Point on Australia's Great Barrier Reef coast.
McEwen said the company has a large resource base of 7 million ounces of gold, 230 million ounces of silver and 18.5 billion pounds of copper, the latter through the Los Azules copper project in Argentina.
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The Human Genome Project, which set out to read all 2.9 billion bases in human DNA, was completed earlier this year.
The project known as Eliza will involve hundreds of scientists and several billion dollars--about 25% of Big Blue's budget for research.
It's also the 10th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which set out to sequence the more than 3 billion letters in our genetic code.
Milligan project has proven and probable reserves of about 2.1 billion pounds copper and 6 million ounces gold, and there is a huge likelihood of finding similar reserves in the Serengeti properties.
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The big prize here is a 20% stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project, an open-pit mining operation targeting 3.4 billion barrels of bitumen.
The Human Genome Project he helped to launch decades later is an ambitious project to discover the identity and order of every one of the three billion or so key components of the double helix.
He said the project has existed for over 12 years and its data is used to protect more than 1.7 billion e-mail accounts worldwide.
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