By Glory Przekop

GP Wapiti MLA comments on GPRH project

Jul 31, 2018 | 11:25 AM

The UCP MLA for Grande Prairie-Wapiti is disappointed but not surprised the company in charge of building the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital was handed a Notice of Default from the NDP government.

Wayne Drysdale says, unfortunately, the project was troubled from the beginning.

“It was a different way of doing a project, it was kind of a fast-tracked thing, a design and build as you go,” said Drysdale “and I don’t think that was the way to go but I think that given the circumstances, they wanted to fast track it and tried something different.”

The former Infrastructure Minister in the PC government says “it is what it is, that is the way it was started and unfortunately this got dumped on us including the now-minister, she’s (Sandra Jansen) got it dumped on her and is trying to get it finished.”

“It was a poor way to build a project to start with but we didn’t know that at the time,” said Drysdale.

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Graham Construction has 15 days to come up with a mitigation plan or risk being taken off the project.

The company has taken down its original statement dated July 12, 2011, that it was awarded the $520-million project to be completed in spring 2014.