Enforcement is an even bigger problem in Europe, where, thanks mainly to lobbying by Electricité de France, the French have failed to implement EU directives on energy liberalisation.Even if these obstructions were cleared away, traditional power stations would not disappear.
He had expected "vigorous support" from his colleagues and superiors, but instead he "ran into all kinds of obstructions, as if a large, invisible net was trying to cover up this corruption case," Mr Huang wrote.
The bosses of Britain's successful services firms complain of obstructions on the continent.
Anyone who might conceivably represent a political threat, however slight, is today likely to face court proceedings, tax inspections and, if he chooses to start an electoral campaign, an array of obstructions (meetings banned, electricity switched off, etc).Both houses of parliament have been neutered, and new rules for political parties, and for elections, seem designed to keep them that way.
More likely, as Niwat Roykaew, chairman of the Chiang Khong Mekong Conservation Group, suggests, local residents might have no choice but to use sit-ins and other obstructions in order to shut down the Mekong "friendship bridges" between Thailand and Laos, should the MRC fail to compel Laos to suspend the dam construction.
But they can be obstructions to the treatment of an unhealthy one.
The huge number of permits, plus legal gaps and contradictions, create endless possibilities for obstructions, delays and kickbacks.
To make further gains, especially in the ultra price-sensitive transshipment market, Portugal needs to steer past two obstructions: powerful service providers and unionised workers.Getting private firms to compete at ports is tricky.
The German company reckons self-driving commercial vehicles will come to market before driverless cars, as they spend most of their time on main roads with few obstructions.
Some of the body's obstructions to treatment, however, are just accidents.
Researchers must therefore deal with the obstructions that evolution unable to anticipate the advances medicine has made in recent years—has placed in the way of administering the therapies they have devised.Technology Quarterly More than just digital quilting A classic invention Return of the human computers Indolent or aggressive?
