Madam Chair, when we came back to standing committee last winter, we indicated that we were seeking another $5 million total. The majority of that money is for geotechnical work, but a portion would also be to just continue with the rest of the project, the environmental assessment, getting it to them, more of the engineering and collecting the information for that. It was $2.5 million last fiscal year and this is the second half of that funding. The $2.5 million last year was spent completely on the geotechnical investigation. The on-site work was successful. They were able to get out onto the land and drill 300 bore holes and collect all of the material that they set out to collect. That material is now in the labs. It’s getting processed, analyzed. We are starting to see some of the results from that work and we’ll, over the next month or two, get the rest of the results. That’s obviously very important to us as we consider designing the road. We’ll need to know where the material is going to come from, and that, of course, will lead into better refinement on the cost estimate as well.
Russ Neudorf on Committee Motion To Extend Sitting Hours, Carried
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Committee Motion To Extend Sitting Hours, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
June 7th, 2012
Russ Neudorf
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