Bluenose II project manager cost triples to $1.3M – Canadian Taxpayers Federation calling on province to fire Bluenose II project .

November 26, 2013 Canada

“The job of the management consultant is to work with the government to ensure that the boat is delivered on time and on budget,” said Kevin Lacey, the Atlantic Canada director of the taxpayers federation. “Now we’re two and a half years late … and it’s millions over budget. And now even the people in charge of ensuring that that doesn’t happen, their contract is also three times more.” more@cbcnews 21:26

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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