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In millions of dollars we have wasted the following amounts: Valley Zoo, $50.3; Fort Edmonton, $165; Coronation rec centre; $153; velodrome, $46; bike lanes, $100; funicular, $24; EV buses, $60; Hawrelak, $134; and you could add the downtown library and LRT.
And to blame the province for our financial challenges is a joke and speaks to this council’s absolute lack of financial acumen and accountability. What Edmonton needs more than more provincial money is an effective city council.
Rick Tiedemann, Edmonton
City buys faulty e-buses; begs for cash
I really had to laugh when I read the headline “Smith Can Help By Sending Cash: Sohi.” Maybe if Edmonton city council had not wasted $60 million dollars on useless electric buses now languishing in city garages, they would not have to come begging for $60 million.
Saying they’re not getting enough money from the provincial government, when they squander the city budget on nonsense and raise our taxes by over six per cent. You can’t make it up. The incompetence and hypocrisy is off the charts.
Jessie Rolheiser, Edmonton
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We pay more than carbon rebate
Re. “Hands off our carbon tax rebate,” Letters, April 6
Larry Johnsrude agrees with the parliamentary budget officer’s analysis that the rebate will cover slightly more than the direct carbon tax. However, he misses the other PBO conclusion that even after the rebate, he will be about $900 down this year.
So he can keep the tax and the rebate and be $900 poorer. Or axe the tax and rebate and be $900 better off. As he says, do the math.
Ted Heidrick, Sherwood Park
Nuclear power plants are so pretty?
It would seem there’s nothing like a reliable electrical grid with accurate forecasting and good management. From the looks of it, maybe what we need in order to get that is more and broader renewable input and storage and less thermal?
Or maybe, we could build some large-scale nuclear power plants in those parts of the province where we’ve banned renewable generation because it’s unsightly and difficult to reclaim. Because nuclear plants are so pretty and so easy to reclaim at their end of their life spans.
Ken Cantor, Edmonton
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