At a meeting to discuss projected compensation for 2007, Dye and Sanders nearly came to blows.
Now he is suing the project, seeking compensation for the intellectual property rights he claims to have generated for Eden and for the time and expenses he invested in the scheme.
Credit will be given to the person who performed and/or innovatively modified a project, and compensation will be both financial and in the form of commendation.
The government had a hand in that process, as Washington approved more than $20 billion in aid for New York City after the attacks, in the form of tax benefits, work projects and compensation for businesses.
In some cases, governments or projects set compensation rates, although people invariably complain these are extremely low and their land and trees undervalued.
Every farmer affected, Mr. Sow added, including as many as 20,000 affected by the Libyan project, will receive compensation.
Then political power shifted and the new council scrapped the project, without any compensation for losses running to around €100,000 ($140,000).
After Karaha, whose legal home is in the Cayman Islands, tried and failed to persuade the Indonesian government to revive the project, it sought compensation for the money it had already invested -- more than $100 million, it claimed -- and for lost profits.
Hoping to duplicate the success of earlier graphic-book projects that began as Smith magazine Web comics (including Mr. Neufeld's nonfiction account of Hurricane Katrina survivors, "A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge"), the Pekar Project contributors deferred compensation for their online work, with the possibility of a payday if a book was published.
Campaigners against the project say the compensation assessment shows the firm realises there will be a "significant effect" on tourism.
