Premier Kathy Dunderdale opened an aquaculture centre in the south coast community of St. Alban’s on Thursday three years after it was supposed to be finished and at more than twice the original forecast price.
Former fisheries minister Tom Rideout announced the offices and laboratories in 2007. He estimated the cost at $4.2 million. It was supposed to be opened in 2008.
In a news release marking the opening, the provincial government reported the facility cost $8.8 million.
Danny Williams included the project as part of the provincial government’s “stimulus” package in 2009. That was just one of the delayed and over budget Williams included as if they were brand new projects in response to the recession.
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