Other concerns include potential impacts to groundwater in the event of a spill and high pollution from refineries along the Gulf Coast that would process the bitumen.
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That will not change in Prime Minister Banny's new cabinet, and though Ivory Coast's messy peace process has taken a back seat, this toxic waste scandal shows yet again just how urgent it is that the Ivorian crisis be resolved.
Asked about Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum's Friday letter to Feinberg criticizing the claims process under the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Feinberg again emphasized that the program is voluntary.
Civil servants did not "deliberately" mislead ministers during a bidding process to run the West Coast mainline, the transport secretary has told MPs.
Altruists who set up a nonprofit corporation can acquire lighthouses from the U.S. Coast Guard, which is in the process of selling off 300 to nonprofit groups.
So with the franchise process suspended, affecting the West Coast route, three franchises including Great Western and Thameslink that were already on track, and throwing into doubt future franchising throughout Britain, we've come to a situation that would stretch the imagination of the writers of BBC2's outrageous satire The Thick Of It.
While distance seems an obstacle in the selection process, for many students on the east coast, the flight time to the United Kingdom is around the same as if they had chosen a school on the west coast.
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And now we repeat that process in North Carolina, Virginia and up the coast as flooding is still ongoing.
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The weather may delay the process by two to three days, according to retired Coast Guard Adm.
This administration, through the Department of Justice, has made clear -- has clearly communicated its concerns -- some of the concerns that we have had and has publicly urged the Gulf Coast Claims Facility to take a number of steps to improve the process.
In doing so, Executive Order 13554 established a Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (Task Force) to coordinate intergovernmental efforts, planning, and the exchange of information in order to better implement Gulf Coast ecosystem restoration and facilitate appropriate accountability and support throughout the restoration process.
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The National Guard, Coast Guard and state and federal agencies are working with the agency to speed the process, it reported.
One quick inquiry is into the West Coast franchise bids, and another one is looking at the wider issues of the franchise bidding process.
The decision to award the West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup was scrapped because of "technical flaws" in the bidding process.
The government scrapped its decision to award the multi-billion-pound West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup after "significant technical flaws" were discovered in the bidding process.
When the government called off the Great Western bidding process it said it wanted to re-evaluate it following the high profile collapse of the West Coast mainline deal a few months before.
Although Nigeria lost 1-0 to the Ivory Coast in Tuesday's African Cup of Nations semi-final, Okocha believes Eguavoen has started the important process of building a young, talented side that will be formidable in the future.
S. A division of Petroleos de Venezuela, its refining arm Citgo owns three plants on the Gulf Coast, including Lake Charles, one of the biggest in the U.S. These refineries are optimized to process heavy Venezuelan crude.
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