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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 04:40:06 -0400
Subject: Perhaps NB Power is financing the questionable twinning of
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Route 11 twinning gets $180M in federal, provincial money
About 20 kilometres of the eastern New Brunswick highway to be twinned, starting this summer
More
than $180 million in federal and provincial money was announced
Wednesday for the twinning part of Route 11 in eastern New Brunswick.
The project is set to start this summer and finish in the fall of 2021, a provincial government news release said.
The work will involving twinning a 6.8-kilometre stretch between Shediac River and Cocagne River, along with 13.8 kilometres between Cocagne River and Little Bouctouche River.
The federal government will contribute $84.5 million to the project, and the provincial government will contribute $99 million.
Route 11 has seen more traffic in recent years because of growth in the southeastern region of New Brunswick, the release said.
It cited Route 11 as a major trade and tourism corridor for the province.
Back in 2015, the Brian Gallant government said it would continue to consider twinning Route 11, despite reports at the time showing sections of the road didn't have enough traffic to warrant such an expansion.
Four-lane divided highways are safer than two-lane highways, and the province has made increased safety part of its argument for the work on Route 11, which runs from Shediac to Campbellton.
https://www.telegraphjournal.
The project is set to start this summer and finish in the fall of 2021, a provincial government news release said.
The work will involving twinning a 6.8-kilometre stretch between Shediac River and Cocagne River, along with 13.8 kilometres between Cocagne River and Little Bouctouche River.
The federal government will contribute $84.5 million to the project, and the provincial government will contribute $99 million.
Route 11 has seen more traffic in recent years because of growth in the southeastern region of New Brunswick, the release said.
It cited Route 11 as a major trade and tourism corridor for the province.
Back in 2015, the Brian Gallant government said it would continue to consider twinning Route 11, despite reports at the time showing sections of the road didn't have enough traffic to warrant such an expansion.
Four-lane divided highways are safer than two-lane highways, and the province has made increased safety part of its argument for the work on Route 11, which runs from Shediac to Campbellton.
https://www.telegraphjournal.
Premier Brian Gallant goes after Point Lepreau cost overruns with new tactic
The Point Lepreau nuclear generating station.
OTTAWA • Premier Brian Gallant says his provincial government would accept federal dollars toward other projects in lieu of the $1 billion in cost overruns associated with the Point Lepreau refurbishment.
Gallant told the Telegraph-Journal while in Ottawa that the delays and mistakes made in a plagued overhaul of the nuclear station remain a “fiscal strain” on New Brunswick.
Consecutive New Brunswick governments have repeatedly called on Ottawa to cover the roughly $1-billion price tag.
The Point Lepreau refurbishment project was the first time that Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. – a federal Crown corporation – attempted to rebuild a Candu-6 reactor.
The $1.4-billion overhaul of Atlantic Canada’s only nuclear plant was originally scheduled to take 18 months when it was taken offline in March 2008.
Instead, the refurbishment was completed in 2012, taking 37 months longer and costing $1 billion more than anticipated.
It was completed to expand the life of the plant by another 25 to 30 years.
“That’s certainly a fiscal strain for the people of New Brunswick,” Gallant said.
He added that the goal remains to recoup the extra costs, suggesting there may be more than one way
The Point Lepreau nuclear generating station. Telegraph-Journal Archive
“It’s not so much the how we get there, but it’s the outcome that we get,” Gallant said. “Whether it’s a mechanism that goes directly into helping with the cost overruns or there are other types of investments that are made by the federal government to offset some of those fiscal challenges, as long as in New Brunswick we get the support that we need then I’ll be very pleased.”
“So we need, obviously, some support as a province to overcome some of the fiscal challenges and the aging demographic challenges, and at the same time seize some of the opportunities before us,” he said.
Lawsuits were launched in the aftermath of the delayed refurb.
NB Power is going after the insurers of the refurbishment for more than $320 million.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited has a similar claim for roughly $204 million.
In a statement of defence, Lloyd’s Underwriters said NB Power’s insurance policy “does not finance Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s refurbishment learning curve.”
In a letter to all federal party leaders during last year’s federal election, Gallant called for “compensation for cost overruns at Point Lepreau.”
“While the lessons learned on the Point Lepreau project will benefit other utilities and Canada’s technology exports on the international market, it is unfair for New Brunswick and NB Power ratepayers to bear the disproportionate share of the cost,” reads the letter. “The federal government must come to the table to negotiate a fair settlement that appropriately compensates New Brunswick for the cost overruns associated with the Point Lepreau refurbishment.”
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