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Harsh reviews of BC Hydro’s Site C project and Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask dam underscore the lack of oversight that allowed politicians’ vanity projects to become awful albatrosses
Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Brad Wall Cost overruns on the Keeyask and Bipole III projects by Manitoba Hydro were caused by a combination of incomplete planning and lack of oversight by the Selinger government, according to the results of an economic review released by the Manitoba Government on Friday. Advertisement Cost overruns on the Keeyask and Bipole III projects by Manitoba Hydro were caused by a combination of incomplete planning and lack of oversight by the Selinger government, according to the results of an economic review released b...
FORMER NDP premier Gary Doer makes no apology for his government’s decisions on Hydro mega-pro...
The report said there were many factors, including one major contract that left the province instead of the contractor on the hook for cost overruns. And as costs rose, the former NDP government did not take action, said Wall, who was hired by the province's current Progressive Conservative government to do the review. "The commissioner saw no evidence of interest or proactive outreach on the part of the former elected Government of Manitoba to provide oversight, accountability, and overall leadership on the Keeyask and Bipole III projects," Wall's report states. "As the costs of the projects...
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba New Democrats will meet this weekend and may debate everything from hiking the minimum wage to stopping pipelines to running nicer election ads. The official Opposition party is to hear from delegates online at a policy convention Saturday. Among the resolutions being put forward by local constituency groups is one that calls for increasing the minimum wage to a level that could exceed $15 an hour. Another resolution calls on the party to push the federal and provincial governments to oppose any new pipelines, fracking or extraction projects. And another calls on...