Harbour Solutions Project

From: "Leighton (Larry) Steele" <lsteele.employee.msvu@msvu1.msvu.ca>
To: harbsol@region.halifax.ns.ca
CC: Sustainable Maritimes <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:44:32 -0400
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Privitization of the harbour solutions project would be a mistake. The
statement in the recent newsletter that "No matter who operates the
plant the same high standards will be required" is naive and
(unintentionally) misleading.  Once a company has a 30 year contract,
standards become difficult to enforce--the 2 companies vying for the
Halifax contract, for example, most certainly have more money to spend
on legal battles than would the HRM council. They also have poor track
records. One observation: all HRM citizens I have spoken to about the
project seem concerned about assuring that they are consulted at every
step of the decision-making process. Even those whose political ideology
makes them generally comfortable with privitization want to have their
input: they want the project to be accountable.The only real way to
truly provide adequate public accountability is the make the project
public.

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Leighton (Larry) Steele
Modern Languages Dept.
Mount Saint Vincent University
Phone : 457-6113
Fax : 425-0901



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