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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
The city certainly did not say the cleanup was going to cost $800M, I believe they estimated $300M at the high end. The city DID look at all the costs that would be incurred by the city if the CalgaryNEXT project went ahead as proposed. That included lots of costs that were only indirectly related, but nevertheless would be required. The number was $1.8B. The city never claimed that all of this was the cost of CalgaryNEXT (The city assumed CSEC’s cost of the building to be correct). The city must consider all costs when determining if something like that is feasible, and that’s what they did.
Even if every single councillor and the mayor wanted to go ahead with the CalgaryNEXT plan, it STILL could not possibly have happened. That’s how much money the city would have had to front under that proposal. The city doesn’t just have a billion and a half dollars sitting around.
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All fair, but without Arena should the land not currently be undergoing the cleanup process. The contamination has spread into the river and has been detected on the other side. This is the part I don't get.