Who will head the review of Metro Vancouver’s overbudget sewage plant?

With nan North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant expected to person costs overruns of $3 billion, unit has been mounting for answers.

Metro Vancouver says it will do an independent capacity audit and chair Mike Hurley initially recommended William McCarthy, who has a inheritance successful commercialized existent estate.

In 2022 he was designated an honorary Burnaby firefighter astatine nan aforesaid section wherever Hurley, a erstwhile firefighter, erstwhile worked.

McCarthy is besides generous and has donated to galore charities. Someone pinch nan aforesaid sanction gave nan maximum amount, $1,250, to Mike Hurley’s mayoral run successful 2022.

A determination connected McCarthy’s assignment was owed to beryllium made connected Friday. Late Wednesday, however, Hurley advised Metro Vancouver’s board he had received antagonistic feedback and had abandoned his recommendation.

Asked for comment, McCarthy said he was “a non-appointee to thing and backstage business  person.”

On Wednesday Global News asked Premier David Eby astir nan audit and our reporting that Metro Vancouver spent much than $64,000 connected nutrient and intoxicant astatine a Federation of Canadian Municipalities convention statement successful 2023.

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Premier Eby responded, saying caller Chair Mike Hurley “needs to put successful spot nan protections and nan transparency and nan accountability to forestall taxation dollars being spent connected charcuterie alternatively of connected basal infrastructure.”

“I person complete assurance successful Mike and his expertise to do that and if Metro Vancouver fails to meet those standards, nan state will measurement in,” Eby added.

The independent capacity audit comes pinch nary budget.