Dear Editor:
I really get annoyed when comments are made without any time taken to research the topic.
NDP leader Adrian Dix is quoted as saying that the Northwest Transmission Line being built by B.C. Hydro is over budget and that is not satisfactory.
What Dix fails to mention is that NDP is NDP no matter where.
For example, Dix had dinner with the NDP premiers Greg Selinger of Manitoba and Darrell Dexter of Nova Scotia and NDP federal Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair in December 2012. The NDP is one unification right across the country.
Presently in the province of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro is building a 1,384-kilometer transmission line at a costing budget of $2.24 billion.
Manitoba Hydro wants the transmission line to run on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, as it is the most environment friendly. Selinger's NDP government wants to override Manitoba Hydro's decision and have the line built on the west of Lake Manitoba, which will involve more than 600 kilometres of environmental damage, and adding an extra $1 billion to the Manitoba Hydro's budget estimate of $2.24 billion. The Selinger route is also longer.
Now why is a $300 million cost over run a crime in B.C., but OK for an NDP government in Manitoba? Dix must face all facts and compare apples to apples before shooting from the hip and spreading more propaganda.
Maybe Dix was born yesterday, but the readers were not.
Joe Sawchuk, by email
