Sydney's desal plant goes to $2 billion ...
Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald:
In the pipeline: a $2b desalination bill
12 November 2007
The cost of the controversial Kurnell desalination plant is likely to top $2 billion as costs are again forced higher by changes to construction of the massive pipeline at the heart of the project.
The latest estimates have pushed the price of the pipeline, needed to pipe water from the plant to the city's water main, to more than $750 million - nearly $200 million more than the original price of $570 million indicated in May when the State Government finalised details of the pipeline route and construction consortium.
See - Sydney's $2b desalination plant.
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 6:25 AM
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Excerpt from ABC News:
NSW Govt denies desal cost blow-out
12 November 2007
The New South Wales Government has rejected claims Sydney households will have to pay more for water to cover a big cost blow-out in the desalination plant at Kurnell.
Construction has not yet begun at the site but new estimates say the project's price tag could have blown out to more than $2 billion and the pipeline alone will now cost an extra $200 million.
It is claimed the rise in cost covers the price of tunnelling for the pipes rather than digging trenches to bury them.
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11:12 AM, November 12, 2007
Trust a government price to go up!!
8:08 PM, November 12, 2007
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