Aé - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 2002

ROAD WORK continues this summer to improve the Nisga’ a Highway, includ-
ing this stretch alongside Lava Lake. Cost overruns are pushing up the price.

Nisga’a highway
cost to pass $50m

THE COST of improving
the Nisga’a Highway into
the Nass Valley is poised
to creep past the $50 mil-
lion mark and could top
out at $52 million, indi-
cates government budget
documents.

When first laid out
three years ago, the seven-
year project was to cost an
estimated $41 million.

But that figure was
found to be lacking by last
summer because of a pro-
mise made by the previous
NDP government, said
transportation minister Ju-
dith Reid.

The NDP promised the
Nisga’a the road would be
paved with asphalt yet
subsequent plans instead
called for seal-coaling, a
mixture of oil and small
rocks.

The Nisga’a protested,
saying they were promised
asphalt and were holding
the government to the
commitment.

Reid agreed, causing
her to make a successful

pitch ‘Yast summer to the ~

provincial Treasury Board
for more money.
At an open cabinet

Judith Reid

meeting in July 2001, Reid
told her colleagues the
extra cost amounted to $8
million, bringing the pro-
ject to the $49 million
mark.

But she said the Trea-
sury Board approval was
actually for $11 million,
bringing the total cost to
$52 million as outline in
the budget documents.

“I didn’! want to give
cut the exact figure be-
cause we were in negotia-
tians’’ with’ the ‘Nisga’a

Jabout lowering the cost},"~

said Reid.
“It’s unfortunate to not

have had the final cost fig-
ures then but we were in
negotiations.”

Reid conceded it was”

odd to have one figure ap-
proved by Treasury Board,
but use another during a
negotiations period.

“That’s what happens in
government,” she said, *

Those negotiations were
aimed at lowering the cost
by lowering the design
standards of some portions
of the project, said Reid.

That would: have law-
ered the speed limits on
same sections, something
which didn't sit well with
the Nisga’a, she said.

“We had hoped that
would work, but it wasn’t
the case,” Reid continued.

She did: add her offi-
cials will continue to work
on the premise of either

not exceeding the $52 mil- .

lion or. coming in under
that amount.

The highway improve-
ment project consists of
some major. engineering
and construction elements.

One of those is the
widening of the narrow
section that runs alongside
Lava Lake.

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