As costs for the project escalated from the $8 million that the Barbers and Mr. Rockefeller originally estimated, Mr. Rockefeller attempted to sell land to help finance it -- a 95-acre parcel adjacent to the 1,100-acre 1,100-acreRockefellerk PreState nearby.
But technology was changing rapidly and the costs of running the project escalated so it fell into disuse.
Along with most other indigenous nations in BC, who have never given up their lands to the Canadian state, those at Unist'ot'en camp believe that this project escalates a conflict that is centuries old they equate the Northern Gateway with a violation of their sovereignty and the extension of colonial law into their unsurrendered territories.
Why do major projects escalate on schedule and budget?
Small wonder the bills for the millennium project are escalating.
The projected rapidly escalating NCD prevalence and continued burden of communicable diseases in SSA highlight the need for research to understand the etiology and regionally-important risk factors to prevent these diseases and health systems from being overwhelmed.
The Edible Estates project has escalated rapidly, a sort of grass-roots movement without the grass.
The government has dismissed reports that the cost of HS2, the high-speed rail project, will escalate to a politically unacceptable £73bn, saying the figures were "completely misleading".
The Keystone XL, a mundane pipeline project that escalated into a bitter proxy war over climate change and North America's energy future, moved one important step closer to reality on Friday.
In December 1997, the project was called into question when the projected budget escalated to $108 million due to media and shareholder scrutiny of the studio in financing a big-budget film.
Eschewing usual public relations bromides, Herzog and de Meuron bravely paper the walls with newspaper articles that chronicle the early hopes for the project and the escalating rows and budget overruns.
