It's bad luck when one of the main tools to do the job runs into issues, or conditions struck are much different to what was expected.
However I have my suspicions [1] that there's plenty of people who've either opted to milk as much as they can get from the project or padded bills for reimbursement as the taxman is paying ... or they're quietly in league with the crowd who are very much against renewable power.
The blow out in costs is being used presently by some of the more influential cats to try and talk up why government should not involve itself in critical infrastructure ... after all it's better when private interests do these things ... pinky swear they'll never sell at prices that squeeze the public for every little bit they can get ...
As much as it is, it's going to cost less than having to decommission a single nuclear power plant.
[1] From what slowly occurred for the years after covid on federal and state funded road upgrades in my neck of the woods, moved from high percentage of actual workers with a few safety folks ... until it reached silly proportions of non workers standing around the road works and weeks passed on with little occurring ... steaming when at one quarter mile section there was 14 or 16 safety personnel while two blokes with spades were busy. Later I'd chat to one of the guys who worked there and he spelt out that the contractors were getting every ounce out of it as they could ... the stinger being there's sections not even 5 years after completion that with all traffic travelling on one side for too long, it's failed and now it's not just the sides of the roads that have to be redone but the entire road.
However I have my suspicions [1] that there's plenty of people who've either opted to milk as much as they can get from the project or padded bills for reimbursement as the taxman is paying ... or they're quietly in league with the crowd who are very much against renewable power.
The blow out in costs is being used presently by some of the more influential cats to try and talk up why government should not involve itself in critical infrastructure ... after all it's better when private interests do these things ... pinky swear they'll never sell at prices that squeeze the public for every little bit they can get ...
As much as it is, it's going to cost less than having to decommission a single nuclear power plant.
[1] From what slowly occurred for the years after covid on federal and state funded road upgrades in my neck of the woods, moved from high percentage of actual workers with a few safety folks ... until it reached silly proportions of non workers standing around the road works and weeks passed on with little occurring ... steaming when at one quarter mile section there was 14 or 16 safety personnel while two blokes with spades were busy. Later I'd chat to one of the guys who worked there and he spelt out that the contractors were getting every ounce out of it as they could ... the stinger being there's sections not even 5 years after completion that with all traffic travelling on one side for too long, it's failed and now it's not just the sides of the roads that have to be redone but the entire road.