{"id":20,"date":"2003-12-04T16:34:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2003-12-04T16:34:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-04T20:34:47","slug":"4-beeeeeeeeeeeellion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/04\/4-beeeeeeeeeeeellion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"4 beeeeeeeeeeeellion dollars?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2003\/12\/04\/nuclear_epp031204\">it&#8217;ll cost $4,000,000,000 to restore the Pickering nuclear power station to full operation<\/a>. Oh, and five years, too. And all because of bungling management.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just a day late and a dollar short. In 1997, the refurb was estimated at $780m and five years. Now, they&#8217;re saying more than 5&times; the cost and twice the time. Someone please nominate ousted OPG chair Bill Farlinger&nbsp;&mdash; author of such classics as <em>The Commonsense Revolution<\/em> and <em>How to Privatize Hydro for Fun &amp; (my) Profit<\/em>&nbsp;&mdash; for the Giller Prize, since it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegillerprize.ca\/\">Canada&#8217;s Premier Literary Prize for Fiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I&#8217;ll make Ontario a deal. Give me the CAD&nbsp;4bn, and I&#8217;ll give you enough renewable energy to make Pickering history. And I&#8217;ll only bungle on my own time. Deal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, it&#8217;ll cost $4,000,000,000 to restore the Pickering nuclear power station to full operation. Oh, and five years, too. And all because of bungling management. This isn&#8217;t just a day late and a dollar short. In 1997, the refurb was estimated at $780m and five years. Now, they&#8217;re saying more than 5&times; the cost and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[657,1641,645],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-nuclear","tag-overspend","tag-pickering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}