...and whether Wynner found some in McGoonty's desk?
McGuinty's multi-million blunder 65
By Christina Blizzard ,QMI Agency
Nine hundred million dollars. Yep, that’s what the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty was prepared to spend to cancel two gas plants in Mississauga and Oakville.
While they were soothingly telling the public the two cancellations would cost a mere $230 million, behind the scenes, they’d salted away close to $1 billion.
And Liberal incompetence negotiating the scrapping of the Oakville plant cost at least $300 million, despite advice from staff that the deal could be ended without penalty.
Those two astonishing facts came out Thursday at a Queen’s Park committee looking into the shocking way these two plants were scrapped.
There are still many unanswered questions about these deals.
First, why were they sited so badly in the first place?
The Mississauga plant is particularly a head-scratcher.
At the time new plants were planned, there was a need for more electricity in the high-growth western part of the GTA.
While they were soothingly telling the public the two cancellations would cost a mere $230 million, behind the scenes, they’d salted away close to $1 billion.
And Liberal incompetence negotiating the scrapping of the Oakville plant cost at least $300 million, despite advice from staff that the deal could be ended without penalty.
Those two astonishing facts came out Thursday at a Queen’s Park committee looking into the shocking way these two plants were scrapped.
There are still many unanswered questions about these deals.
First, why were they sited so badly in the first place?
The Mississauga plant is particularly a head-scratcher.
At the time new plants were planned, there was a need for more electricity in the high-growth western part of the GTA.
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