A study released last March says raising the height of the existing 35 kilometres of dikes would cost $200 million building a new dike would cost $189 million and raising the existing dikes and installing steel sheet pile walls in select locations would cost about $301 million. The isthmus project is aimed at finding a way to protect the Trans-Canada Highway, the CN rail line and communications infrastructure from potential damage by major storms and flooding until 2100. "I just want to ensure we don't miss this window because it's the most logical window to find a federal cost-sharing opportunity." "This disaster mitigation and adaptation fund will organically be taken up with other projects, so time is a little bit of the essence in that there will likely be many more projects submitted than the total amount of funding available," he said. The federal minister - whose New Brunswick riding borders the Nova Scotia boundary - notes that while talks with the two provinces are "encouraging," the next deadline for applying to the fund is firm. had been promised year-round transportation to the mainland as one of its conditions for entering Confederation. The Confederation Bridge, he said, represents a particular case because P.E.I. LeBlanc pushed back against the notion that the federal government should pay for most of the project. Meanwhile, Houston's office wrote, "It’s going to take hundreds of millions of dollars to do this and we need to be creative. In an email, Higgs' office also said, "We are in the early days of discussion with the federal government … However, given the importance of this project in connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, we are evaluating similar interprovincial projects." That project was mostly paid for by Ottawa, the premier noted. Higgs recently told the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal that the federal government should consider funding the project the same way it funded the Confederation Bridge - which links his province to Prince Edward Island. Premiers Tim Houston of Nova Scotia and Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick, however, are saying talks are still underway on how much each government should pay. Ottawa can pay up to half the $301-million potential cost to protect the Chignecto Isthmus - a stretch of land that connects Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, LeBlanc said. "I said the most direct way to get a federal contribution would be through the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund, and urged them to pick an option from the study that was commissioned … and I would work with them to try and get it approved," LeBlanc said in an interview on Monday. Limbaugh to Hitler propagandist Joseph Goebbels.HALIFAX - The federal infrastructure minister is urging Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to apply for about $150 million to protect the land link between their provinces from climate change-related flooding.ĭominic LeBlanc said he has written to the two provincial governments to say money is available and the deadline to apply to the disaster mitigation fund is July 19. Adams said the newspaper edited out a reference that compared Mr. His most recent letter ran last Sunday, a long discussion of radio host Rush Limbaugh's "obvious methods to subvert and distort the truth." Mr. The letters were "a little long and sometimes a little outrageous." His point of view "seemed to be more on the liberal side," Mr. He wrote on a variety of topics, from the federal government to gambling to school lunches. Lipka was prolific, said Marvin Adams, news editor of the Lancaster paper. Until now, readers of the Lancaster New Era knew him as their coin columnist and opinion writer. Lipka sits today in a Philadelphia jail, and the news of his arrest made the front pages. "I turn on the news and there's his picture," said Mr. He frequently wrote letters to the hometown newspaper. He was a Penn State fan, and had a big flag in front of his house last fall. He drove a blue van and often picked up his sons from the park on summer afternoons. Lipka's alleged cloak-and-dagger past surprised his middle-class neighbors in Millersville. The couple had one child, Kelly, who lives in Maryland. Lipka's former wife, who reportedly is cooperating with the FBI in the espionage investigation, got no financial settlement from her husband, according to court records. Finally we had to take out a loan to cover his gambling debts," she said in court papers.
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