Saturday, December 13, 2014

Blown Budgets In British Columbia...


...A Place Where The Past Is Not Prologue.


Yesterday we noted, at least according to the denizens of Clark (not Glen) Land, that the Site C damn is suddenly going to cost an extra 600 million, or maybe even 1,100, million dollars.

And what happened in response to this 'announcement'  by our fine Premier to the big money boys in New York City?

Well....

Except for a piece by Vaughn Palmer about how he waited by the phone with bated-breath for the ol' turdstormer to call him up and tell him less than zero, the Lotuslandian proMedia has essentially ignored the story.

And, as you might expect, British Columbia's best blogger (i.e. the one with a boatload of established credibility that has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment), Norm Farrell, has something to say about all that:

...Remember the years of proMedia outrage after a different Premier named Clark offered assurances that the cost of fast ferries would be $210 million, "right down to the toilet paper." He was wrong... to the tune of about $240 million. Today, top news at The Province Online includes "how to book the cheapest airline flight," a Calgary man's claim that bigfoot DNA had been "plucked from a BC tree" and a report about an Afghani Bruce Lee lookalike...

Go figure.

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5 comments:

James King, Victoria said...

Juat came from Norm's place and you're right Ross, he is the real deal...Did you listen to the interview clip from the author of the Sightlines report - re Kinder Morgan and their 'wonderful' record? I especially liked the bit describing how they shaved client's coal with two different scales and re-sold the purloined product as their own.

Anonymous said...

Tell Fitch and Moodys the politicians are spending 15 billion ,realistically , on a 11 billion dollar dam and a 3 billion bridge and watch the debt rating of BC tank as fast as the energy/price glut currently happening.

not related

http://www.straight.com/news/788996/history-may-not-be-kind-bc-deputy-premier-rich-coleman


Anonymous said...

free to be free as a TFW

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-workers-microsoft-gets-green-light-from-ottawa-for-foreign-trainees-1.2870289

Anonymous said...

welcome to fantasy island BC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_QbVDlLbI

Anonymous said...

Site C as sparkly and shiny as lNG

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-14/crude-crash-set-continue-after-arab-emirates-hint-40-oil-coming-next