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America once prided itself in building great projects; now, those projects are hampered by bureaucracy and overregulation.
-It will have taken almost 25 years to permit and construct The Gross Reservoir expansion project in Colorado, expected to be completed in 2027.
-It took almost 20 years to permit the Kensington gold mine in Alaska.
-It took four years to construct a new runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, but it took 15 years to get the permits
-It took Shell seven years and $7 billion to get the federal government’s permission to drill a single oil-exploration well off the coast of Alaska.
-It took 17 years to receive a permit for the SunZia energy project in the Western US.
- It took more than 40 years to permit the Cooper Landing Bypass project, a 15 mile highway project in Alaska.
-New U.S. highway construction projects usually take between nine and 19 years from initial planning and permitting to completion of construction.
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America once prided itself in building great projects; now, those projects are hampered by bureaucracy and overregulation.
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) December 6, 2024
-It will have taken almost 25 years to permit and construct The Gross Reservoir expansion project in Colorado, expected to be completed in 2027.
-It took…
