Governments may not like it, but they have little option but to invest in sewage and water infrastructure.
The 21-municipality regional government made this clear earlier this year when it announced that the North Shore wastewater treatment plant was running billions of dollars over budget and was to be complete 10 years later than first planned.
“This program is not optional,” Metro Vancouver’s then-board chair George Harvie said in the news release that announced the project update, published late on a Friday afternoon in March.
“Building a new wastewater treatment plant that provides a higher level of treatment is essential to comply with federal regulations, and it is absolutely
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