The commission will assess the economic feasibility of splitting up Los Angeles, and look into tricky questions such as water supply that need general co-operation.

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What we lack is the national political will to create the proper incentives to foster such efforts on a sufficient scale to drive costs down to economic feasibility.

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One should note, however, that resources are not the same as reserves and economic feasibility of extraction needs to be established first to upgrade the classification of assets from resources to reserves.

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Summarizing those criteria, the policy to be applied required a comprehensive, integrated approach, where broad participation in the project starting right from the planning stage and decentralized strategies along with ecologic and economic feasibility have been the main guidelines.

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The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.

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First, economic planners and bankers have to start accounting for the hidden cost of carbon in power plant feasibility studies on their own volition.

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But currencies, Chinese policies, economic demand and other factors will all be playing out for the next several years as these companies move from feasibility studies to actual production.

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