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The report accepts that climate change is a reality and says that Mediterranean weather could increase travel to and within Britain, resulting in added congestion. It cautions that flooding and falling trees will be a growing threat to the transport infrastructure. It also points to the increased likelihood of sudden structural failures resulting from subsidence and landslips because of soil saturation and the scouring action of rain and rivers. The report does not regard biofuels as a viable solution on the scale required to replace fossil fuels. It points out that biofuels would be competing for limited land with much needed food crops. It calls on the Government to put in place legislation and financial incentives to encourage conversion to hydrogen as the road transport fuel of the future.
DEVELOPMENT: LV land prices rise in quarter
Land values in Las Vegas rose 21.8 percent during the fourth quarter to an average of $1.51 million an acre for 452 acres sold compared to the previous year's quarter, Las Vegas-based research firm Applied Analysis reported. The price was down 25 percent from $2.01 million an acre in the third quarter. Fourth-quarter sales included 13 acres of resort property, such as former sites for failed high-rises Ivana Las Vegas, Icon and Majestic. Those sites averaged $20.1 million an acre. Excluding land sales around the Strip, the average price was $939,400 an acre, still a 20.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2006. .
Official departs county position Employee cleared Rio work last year
Friday was the last day on the job for county employee Rick Maddox, whose rubber-stamp approval of questionable remodeling of the Rio ignited a safety controversy that resulted in criminal charges. The brevity of Maddox's visit to the Rio a year ago, just before he cleared it of improper remodeling, can be established by satellite tracking of his county vehicle, the Review-Journal learned Friday, the same day that Maddox "separated" from the county. The county confirmed his departure but will not say whether he resigned or was fired. "The time that I was given was 18 minutes" for Maddox's stop at the Rio, said whistleblower Fred Frazzetta, who declined to name the source for his information. Frazzetta is an electrician who worked on the remodeling project and filed the complaint that triggered the inspector's trip to the Rio in February 2007.
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