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Showing posts with label eastmain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eastmain. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Muskrat - Incompetence? Corruption? Deliberate lies?

Are you willing to read a paragraph to protect your children and grandchildren?

As Tory MHA's current and past line up to run for the Party leadership remember this: They were all part of the Muskrat fiasco.

Please read an excerpt from an article in the Business Excellence Magazine written late last year.

The most recent project to be completed was the $5 billion Eastmain 1A-Sarcelle-Rupert project, in the James Bay area. It was launched in 2007 with approval to build the Eastmain-1-A and Sarcelle powerhouses and divert part of the Rupert River's flow. The diversion began in 2009, two of the three generating units at Eastmain-1-A powerhouse were commissioned in 2011, the third in January 2012. The first generating unit at Sarcelle powerhouse was commissioned in April 2013 and the two other units have now come on line. “From an environmental and logistic standpoint it was the most challenging project in the history of Hydro-Québec,” he says. “It covers an area the size of some European countries but we were able to bring it in on time and a little under budget so we are very proud of that result.”

We need an investigation to determine what caused the unacceptable overruns in the Muskrat Falls project. We need the senior management of Nalcor to resign. We need to hold this government accountable now.

Ed Martin steps to a mic - declares an 800 million overrun - therefore we the people will pay more - then walks back to his very lucrative job.

Fire Ed Martin and the senior management involved in this project.We don't pay them millions a year to be wrong.

Fire the Tories - insist that they call an election now.

Find out how the external expertise we used to confirm the bad numbers - are themselves in a mess with overruns.

Don't turn away from this robbing of the public purse. Look it square in the eyes. Tell Tom Marshall, John Ottenheimer, Paul Davis, and Steve Kent that we no longer wish to be bamboozled. Show them the door and then see if there is a reason for them to lose their pensionable benefits.