Former agriculture minister Lord Hailsham quit as an MP at the 2010 general election after he attracted criticism for using parliamentary expenses to pay for dredging a moat on his country estate.
Environmentalists have long been pressing for additional dredging of contaminated sections outside the Superfund site north of Albany.
Olivier Blanchet, the owner skipper of the Brittany registered Le Cobbe, was fined for scallop dredging in the Granville Bay area.
She has secured approval for two new berths at Port Hedland, finished the deepwater dredging for them, and has started construction on her own two-hundred-and-fourteen-mile railway and high-tech remote operations center near Perth Airport.
This is precisely what occurred when Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to block Obama administration appointments unless money was provided for a harbor dredging project in his home state.
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The Spanish national port authority completed a similar study for the Monkey Point dredging project in 2000.
However, protesters said they were worried about what dredging could mean for their livelihoods and local sea life.
It's a proxy war for settling old scores, dredging up past slights, supporting preferred teams and conferences and opposing despised ones.
Colbert Busch, saying she would use her years of business experience including her work in the steam industry, criticized Sanford for voting in Congress against harbor dredging and building a higher bridge so the Port of Charleston could handle a new generation of larger container ships.
If they don't make that, looking for positive trends is considered mere data dredging.
They remained there for thousands of years and eventually tidal currents and dredging released the fossilised remains, which were caught in the fishing nets of a trawler earlier this year.
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Dredging to a depth of 41 feet will make way for the 50, 000-ton ships carrying food that are slated to reach the port by July.
"GE deserves praise for getting in front of this problem and exploring the benefits of additional dredging, " DiNapoli said.
Cornwall Councillor Chris Ridgers, the council's portfolio holder for economy and regeneration, said it was important the transport minister now agreed to the dredging.
For much of the past year, he's been working in New Orleans, dredging channels that were filled in when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit.
Public-interest groups, hoping to hold the Louisianans and others to past promises, are dredging up newsclips in which the lawmakers are quoted as saying they will vote for McCain's bill.
Dredging up opponents' past misdeeds from the stands is a staple of the matchday experience for fans.
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