RevengeOfTheIdiot
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It would appear that at least some of the creme de la creme of the local proMedia contingent has finally started to catch up to the citizen journalist who was once derided as little more than an unreliable activist by a certain Keef not named Richards.
More importantly, Laila Yuile is back, at least for the moment:
In the age old tradition used by politicians of every stripe who are forced to release bad news, the NDP waited until late Friday before the BC day long weekend to tell the public about the long overdue progress reports on the Site C dam.
And the news wasn’t good…. delays and rising costs related to the Covid pandemic had taken its toll, and now the project was facing cost overruns, and unknown in service date and worse yet…. a final budget figure couldn’t even be given! In fact, a quick google search shows the majority of headlines and excerpts on this by media bought the carefully crafted press messaging hook line and sinker on the Covid angle, with some not even mentioning the bigger story held within the report...
Go read her latest in its entirety.
In the age old tradition used by politicians of every stripe who are forced to release bad news, the NDP waited until late Friday before the BC day long weekend to tell the public about the long overdue progress reports on the Site C dam.
And the news wasn’t good…. delays and rising costs related to the Covid pandemic had taken its toll, and now the project was facing cost overruns, and unknown in service date and worse yet…. a final budget figure couldn’t even be given! In fact, a quick google search shows the majority of headlines and excerpts on this by media bought the carefully crafted press messaging hook line and sinker on the Covid angle, with some not even mentioning the bigger story held within the report...
Go read her latest in its entirety.
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3 comments:
Something stinks when keeyask muskrat bipole 3 and now site c are all over budget.billable hours?
Read most of Laila's article. Made me laugh. Not because of all the money they're wasting $10B and counting, but people just don't give enough serious attention to blonde women.
I've been following laila's articles on Site C since she started writing them. They were serious journalism and investigative journalism. But the MSM and politicians didn't pay attention to her and others. Perhaps its the pictures of her on her blog, cute, blonde, young, etc. People just never learn, just because you're an attractive blonde female doesn't mean you're dumb. usually it means you're underestimated by the population at large and in this case Ms. Yuile will have the last laugh, not that I believe she thinks any of this is funny, given the work she has done to publise the havoc this dam is reeking on the people in the area, our environment in general, and our provincial budget.
$10B would be a nice sum to have built schools and health clinics with in this province and provided about the same number of jobs, not to mention health care, and health care jobs.
So thank you RossK for giving Laila's article some "advertising".
Don't know what they can do now except walk away from it and fire everyone at B.C. Hydro, etc. wonder if the dam has earthquake insurance, then at least we could pray for one. O.K. that isnt' going to work for the atheist in me, but how to recover $10B OMG,
COVID in my opinion isn't the problem. the workers at Site C now go in for 10 weeks at a time. COIVD would have been the perfect "excuse' to close the dam work down and if COVID ever was over they could forget to restart the building.
Perhaps they can stop building it, find a good spin doctor, blame it on the B.C. Lieberals, the executives at B.C. Hydro and some other types and move on. $10B pissed away, omg, They could have given all the workers a million or tow dollars and saved money and the workers could have lived a comfortable life doing something else.
Thank you for the heads up about the article, now back to Laila's blog and the article.
Anon-At-The-Top--
That was always a given.
But this dual bank problem, which Laila predicted, has folks in the know wondering if Site C can be completed at all, regardless the time and money.
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Thanks eaf--
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Away with you, spambot, directly above....
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