labradore

"We can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." — The Word of Our Dan, February 19, 2008.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

The circumlocutory portion of the province

Or, the island that dare not speak its name. From the chapter of today's Auditor-General's report concerning ferry services:
Thirteen of these vessels service the Island portion of the Province while the remaining 5 vessels service Labrador.

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Figure 1 shows the 15 passenger ferry routes for the Island portion of the Province and for Labrador.

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Thirteen of these vessels service the Island portion of the Province while the remaining 5 vessels service Labrador.

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In 2005, the Department hired a consultant to evaluate ferry services on the Island portion of the Province…to conduct an analysis of various aspects of a vessel replacement strategy for the ferry services around the Island of Newfoundland.

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As Figure 5 indicates, 4 of the 8 Government-owned vessels servicing the island portion of the Province are well over 30 years old.

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As Figure 5 also indicates, all contractor-owned vessels servicing the island portion of the Province are over 30 years of age with 4 of the 5 vessels being 40 years old or older. These vessels are expected to have similar age-related problems to those of the Government-owned fleet.

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Although, these contracts have gone to tender, there is no comprehensive plan in place addressing the replacement of contractor-owned vessels servicing the Island portion of the Province.

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To facilitate vessel replacement planning, we would expect the Department to conduct a long-range traffic forecast for all marine services on both the Island portion of the Province and Labrador to help determine the size of replacement vessels needed.

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It can be seen from the Figure 5 that the majority of the vessels providing Provincial ferry services for the island portion of Newfoundland are old.
Ummmm... is there some portion of Newfoundland that isn't island?

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