[Mpls] "Doing" the Crown Hydro project!

[WizardMarks]

Dan McGuire wrote:

>    That sounds great !  So, then I presume the developers would be more
>than willing to provide a performance bond in the amount of
>$500,000,000.00 or so, payable to the city to insure that no damage is
>done to the public's enjoyment of the area as it is now. 
>
WM: The last time, when the Eastman tunnel caved in, it was the federal 
government that paid the   cost of putting in the skirting in front of 
the falls and whatever else it took to put the falls into working order. 
It's absurd to think that a city this size could come up with and 8-zero 
figure. Saving the falls was not a matter that affected the general 
population; it was repaired, "saved" entirely for private industry.

WizardMarks, Central

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