Did the B.C. government blow $ 22 million to settle an embarassing court case?
That’s what the NDP was asking in question period Tueday.
A deal on the courthouse steps saw the government pay Boss Power $ 30 million after it banned uranium mining, but a newly released court document puts the value of the claim at only $ 8 million.
Shades of the $ 6-million Basi Virk deal for New Democrat Shane Simpson: “$ 22 million over the expert opinion to shut this one down cause it’s another embarassment.”
But Energy Minister Rich Coleman defended the deal: “There’s no uranium mining in British Columbia. We had to settle the claim, we settled the claim.”
And Premier Christy Clark insists government lawyers negotiated the sum: “The criminal justice branch decided that that was a fair compensation.”
But ultimately, politicians approved the settlement.
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