North Shore News
“For a cost less than a cup of coffee,” (each month and for the next 15 years) Metro Vancouver residents can help their brethren on the North Shore pay for an extraordinary $2.8-billion cost overrun for their new wastewater treatment plant.
That’s how Metro Vancouver director Lisa Muri, councillor for the District of North Vancouver, framed her pitch to the regional government’s board on Friday, to convince her political neighbours that everyone ought to contribute equally for the new $3.9-billion plant, to which the original price tag was $800 million. …
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie noted Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart previously raised the point that North Shore municipalities voted against a single sewage payment system for the region in the 1990s, saddling Surrey, Delta and Richmond with payments for the Annacis and Lulu Island plants, which were completed by 1996 for $464 million and $132 million, respectively. …