The ambitious project is being built on three and half square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to provide accommodation for 250, 000 people and employment opportunities for a further 150, 000.

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The Department of Energy said the project was already being overseen by ministers and had safeguards built in.

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The project has involved stations at Bathgate and Drumgelloch being re-built, with Livingston North and Uphall stations being upgraded.

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On the other hand, this project is being pushed by people who in the last quarter-century built the world's fastest-growing industry from nothing.

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Combining the two resources in a single project allows for the more efficient use of transmission lines like the multibillion-dollar one being built to carry 4, 500 megawatts of renewable energy from the Tehachapi to coastal metropolises.

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Saltaire World Heritage Site is best known for being a Victorian project in urban regeneration: a neoclassical village on the edges of Bradford, built by industrialist Titus Salt to improve the living conditions for his textile mill employees.

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