Recognising this concern, the SDC recommended that any project given the green light would have to be in "full compliance" with EU habitat and wildlife directives.

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Due to be completed by the end of 2014, the UK's sixth indoor cycling track was recently given the green light - though supporters of the project had an early scare.

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JAM74 said almost 100 people had committed themselves to non-violent direct action within hours of Thursday's announcement that the project had received the green light.

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Mittal has the government in his cross hairs, blaming regulators for not approving a project he needs an environmental green light on.

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Last year the county council announced that the superfast Northamptonshire Project was only the fifth to receive the green light nationally to use the Government's Broadband Framework, managed by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK), to procure an industry partner to co-invest in the county.

BBC: Superfast broadband plan for Northamptonshire

The international partners on the station project will now review the ATV's performance before giving the green light for docking rehearsals.

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One such project is called NewsFlash, and uses high-frequency red and green light to transmit data to the built-in camera on a receiving device -- in this case Samsung's Epic 4G.

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In the U.S., federal regulators gave the green light last month to build two new reactors in Georgia, the first approval of a new nuclear project in three decades.

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The project had already received enormous publicity, but, curiously, it did not yet have a green light.

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