What chance the cost of canceling the second natural gas fired generator plant will not yet be public?
It won't make much difference. It's not hard to take the figure from $640 million to $1 billion.
Every timne we see a flashback. the Premier's hands are spread in submission that the decision was political.
I wondered this morning about the impact will be on the short campaign.
Then I thought, probably not much. After all, in a lesser sense ,we are currently doing the same messing about in Aurora.
At the last Council meeting , residents in the neighborhood of the neat little cell tower on Bathurst Street demanded a judicial review of the town's part in the project.
Councillor Gaertner previously proclaimed the town's planning staff to be at fault. The CAO expressed profound apologies which provided the cue.
I have never heard of a judicial review that didn't cost millions and wasn't justified by the acrid smell of corruption.
Yet some Councillors were eager to support it. The same who were ready to spend $150.000
for a court injunction to stop construction of a tower already constructed. that complied with all the required regulations.
Whatever it costs to satisfy the residents, however futile ,no matter what the rest of the community thinks, that's what the entitlement brigade demand and the council caballeros are ready to spend.
And the other half are unwilling to risk anything either
So, the legal department is tasked with sussing out ianswers to irrelevant questions to avoid the inevitable decision that has to be made.
Once there were Neanderthalls, then Hunter -Gatherers, the Stone Age, the Iron Age, the Age of Enlightenment, The Renaissance, Feudalism and Slavery, Depressions ,Oppressions and Recessions.
Now we have Generation X and the Age of Entitlement and a bunch of limp-wristed liberals in charge.
It's no way to run a railroad.
ReplyDeleteHow can you leave your commentators hanging?
this topic heading is still valid despite the time lapse. .Looks like councillor Ballard has found another target. Could be fun to watch. It would have been amusing to see the offenders tow that Region truck out of the ' illicit ' driveway.
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ReplyDeleteThere may be one further avenue to avoid making the "inevitable decision". When the Town solicitor is finished researching all the silly questions it could be time to call in outside counsel to provide further legal assessments. It will be expensive and the opinions may not be definitive - but Bell and King need to know where Aurora stands - why should we roll over for an approved and constructed federally regulated tower in another municipality that is of concern to less than one percent of our citizens. And forget we ever said we have no concerns/comments prior to construction.
Some woman councillor from Newmarket is twitting to Councillor Ballard that those who voted against him on the refurbishment of the Leisure Centre are all ' conservatives . ' I had hoped we could avoid labels but would point out that he is the one who referred to fellow Aurorans as ' rubes .'
ReplyDeleteI am neither conservative, nor a rube.
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