So this focus on the U.S. having a presence not just in North Asia but in south -- in the South Pacific and in building our partnerships with Australia and other allies is something that we pursued coming out of the last trip.
Another renewable energy producer, Pacific Hydro, is building an even bigger farm at Portland, on the coast of the southern Australian state of Victoria.
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
In 1996 Mark Suwyn, the head of forest products for International Paper, quit to become chairman of building products manufacturer Louisiana-Pacific Corp.
Then the President will be moving along to the leaders' meeting of the APEC Summit, where he'll have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about our continued efforts to promote balanced and sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region and around the world, building upon the strong efforts that have taken place at the G20 -- which Mike Froman can discuss in a bit.
The next could be to start digging (harder, this time) and building locks from the lake to the Pacific.
There has been talk of building a pipeline to neighboring Colombia's Pacific coast, but that is unlikely anytime soon, given the state of relations between the two countries.
And to this end, both our countries will work on regional trade and investment rules-making, with a view to building AFTA or the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific.
Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.
Until recently, the building, which was originally commissioned as the headquarters of Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
Indeed, governments and aerospace companies have periodically flirted with building a son-of-Concorde, which could cross the Pacific and carry three times as many passengers.
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The project would involve the building of five dams on two fast-flowing rivers that run into the Pacific - two on the river Baker, and three on the river Pascua.
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