Three Australian State governments Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales have established independent statutory bodies to prioritize statewide infrastructure needs; legislators will still make the final calls on funding projects but cannot easily ignore these priorities to favor regional or other special interests.
Mayors of large cities that hold statutory responsibilities for large-scale infrastructure such as transportation systems, regional energy production, social housing, water and solid waste management can have a tremendous impact on both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and taking steps to address and forestall the sometimes devastating impacts of the climate change that has already begun.
(S4) Neither did the infrastructure exist within statutory organisations to sustain the HLA process.
As Lennon and Scott point out, the rescaling of the planning process to the national level for projects falling under the provisions of strategic infrastructure legislation bypass public involvement in statutory procedures at local level and effectively reconceptualise "public interest" as "national interest"[28].
Firstly, but merely of an indicative nature, in 2011, the Dutch department for Economic Affairs officially stated that the increase of the share of energy generated regionally would call upon grid operators to make the necessary grid investments given their statutory task of safeguarding an efficient and reliable infrastructure [23].
Instead of wading in with statutory requirements, the government should concentrate on improving infrastructures: more nursery places and all-day schools.
This includes resources for BBC local radio, fees for statutory advertising in local newspapers, and the local TV infrastructure subsidies.
Andrew Adonis, Tony Blair's former policy chief, will sit as a cross-bench peer to allow him to chair the new statutory body that will advise the government on new infrastructure projects.
The day before parliament rose, MPs voted in an unusual paper ballot to implement a two-page statutory instrument which adds nuclear waste storage to the list of nationally significant infrastructure projects in England, via the 2008 Planning Act.
First, voluntary holding of excess cash can be reduced by: (i) helping banks to track their positions at the central bank to prevent them from keeping reserves above statutory limits; (ii) consolidating institutions that are favorable to interbank lending; and (iii) improving infrastructure to prevent remote bank branches from holding excess reserves essentially due to transportation problems.
