NB Government to pay to Repair NWT Bridge

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Wed, 2011-01-19 10:09

Caissa

New Brunswick taxpayers will have to pay up to $4 million to repair a major bridge in the Northwest Territories that was partially built by a New Brunswick firm.

A construction audit released by the N.W.T. government this week has identified a number of problems with Atcon Construction's work on the the Deh Cho Bridge project, which is being built across the Mackenzie River.

Atcon was the Deh Cho Bridge's general contractor until January 2010, when it was removed from the $182-million megaproject because it couldn't agree on terms for the second phase of construction with the bridge's developer.

Wed, 2011-01-19 12:03

remind

why did the NB guarentee Atcon activities in the first place? Sounds like a great ploy to get at tax payer's dollars by automatically defaulting, just the way construction companies did leading up to the Olympics here...

Wed, 2011-01-19 12:12

Caissa

This article provides some of the sordid details, Remind.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/07/30/nb-atcon-delay-b...

Wed, 2011-01-19 12:33

remind

'kay, thanks will read it and come back.

Wed, 2011-01-19 12:46

remind

Just change the location and players names and it sounds like Vancouver 2010 Olympic construction bail outs.

150 jobs proposed to be created hardly seems to be worth 63.3 million dollars. That half that amount was actually achieved, is also typical of corporate right wing government partnership (read access to the tax payer trough) activities these days.

Wed, 2011-01-19 12:50

Caissa

Corporate Welfare Bums.