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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