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permitting The review a project must pass before it can be built, and the argument that it now blocks more than it protects.
Mental modelBottlenecks
On the topicCan a rich country still build things?under our view: Permission and litigation are what stop a project, not money
Their wordsPolitical costs and civic opposition will often make a technology unviable regardless of how the dollars and cents add up.
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↗Why we stopped building subways cheaplyworksinprogress.news
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Their wordsEndless lawsuits, cost-exploding contracting requirements, decades to get permits, and more bedevil any attempt to invest here.
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↗Tariffs, saving, and investmentgrumpy-economist.com
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Their wordsYet solar development is hopelessly snarled by dozens of different development regulations which begin with the assumption that it will permanently and severely harm the environment unless proven otherwise, at exhaustive length.
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↗Permitting Reform Or Deathcaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
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MacKay says markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems and that legislation, regulation and taxation are needed too. Cochrane and Handmer hold jointly that permitting and litigation, not money, are what stop anything getting built in America. The regulation MacKay wants and the regulation they are describing may not be the same regulation, and nobody involved says which.
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Potter, Cochrane and Handmer hold jointly that permitting and litigation, not money, are what stop anything getting built in America. Lowe says standardised manufacturing and documentation cannot be skipped when a drug is given to a human being, because the paperwork is what makes the dose in the vial the dose on the label. The question the pair poses is which parts of a review regime are the fence and which are the toll.
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