http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/08/masdar-total-system-failure/

Masdar City has experienced knee-buckling setbacks, but we haven’t heard the last of them just yet

Masdar City is hanging on tenterhooks. After questioning the dicey science of carbon credits for big energy companies, we then published assurances by Masdar’s CEO Sultan Al-Jaber that although the project will be delayed because of certain hiccups – not least of which being that no one in the post-industrial world has aspired to a city free of carbon, or cars – it will still proceed. Yet critics like Brett Prior say the Masdar ship is sinking fast.