After all, the state oil company was the majority owner of the project from the 1970s and took complete control in the early 1990s.

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Newmont, based in Denver, Colorado, is the majority owner of the Conga project, which was to begin production in 2015 and is an extension of Yanacocha, Latin America's biggest gold mine.

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Questions tend to be directed to Khaled Sallam, the owner of the company that is putting the most Palestinian money into the project.

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This the nationalists famously did, to the fury of the project's Texan owner, Enron.

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But Sue Burke, 58, owner of an industrial-filter wholesaler in Kansas City, is against the streetcar project.

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Chris Musgrave, owner of Wynyard Park Ltd , said he believed the announcement only "delayed" the project.

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If designers have only their drawings or photographs of a real prototype to show, it will hopefully give backers a better idea of how far down the road the project is and whether the project owner really has the skill to pull it off.

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Ross will also continue to focus on his high-profile personal side project: the Miami Dolphins football team, of which he is majority owner.

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Later phases of the project will likely include commercial offices, retail buildings and both rental and owner-occupied housing, the developer and public officials said.

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