12-10-2007, 08:41 AM
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Along with environmental concerns, I also have a big concern about the financial costs of waste to energy. Our county government does NOT have a good track record of estimating the construction costs or operational costs of big projects. If the County and the contractors are telling us it will cost $100 million, we can probably count on it costing $150M or more. .........
And the price tag seems to have already risen.
Jacobson said the price tag for an incinerator "could easily come to" $250 million.
"It's not going to be $100 million and it's never going to be $40 million (which was an
early estimate)," he said. "The cost of this will be enormous, and people aren't paying close attention to it."
Should the cost fall around $250 million, that would equal more than half of the county's operating budget, "and that money is going to have to come from somewhere," Jacobson said, adding that if the county takes the incinerator route, some programs would have to be cut....
From todays WHT:
http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/articles/...ocal01.txt
Where is this money going to come from?
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