Even if the Swansea Bay scheme can secure firm funding, it will need planning permission.
Yet there are doubts that Nabucco can secure firm supply contracts in a region where Russia wields influence.
The Iranians want to avoid specifics on nuclear limits at this stage, while securing firm commitments on the lifting of sanctions, particularly those imposed by the UN.
But there are serious doubts that it can secure firm supply contracts in a region like the Caspian, where Russia has influence.
But there have long been doubts that Nabucco can secure firm supply contracts in a region like the Caspian, where Russia wields influence.
As American jets continued to bomb targets south of Jalalabad -- an area thought to contain hideouts of Osama bin Laden's Qaeda terrorists -- Gen. Fazil Ahmed Azimi, commander of alliance forces in eastern Afghanistan, said his troops hoped to secure firm control of the eastern city within days.
They argue that there is a distinction to be made between the broad practice of brokers' asking an investor about his intention to buy stock in the aftermarket in the interest of price stability, and brokers' securing firm agreements to buy as a way to add fuel to a speculative stock.
In the second half of the 9th century, Swedish peasant chieftains secured a firm foothold in what is now western Russia and Ukraine and ruthlessly exploited the Slav population.
F-Secure, the security firm that sponsored the experiment, has confirmed that it won't be enforcing the clause.
"Cyber attacks can simply destroy us," said Kevin Johnson, chief executive of cyber security firm Secure Ideas.
