BROOKLYN - The mayor
says two former naval ships are coming to Port Mersey Commercial Park, but the
company contracted to do the job hasn’t said it’s coming to Queens County.
“We are very, very excited
that R.J. MacIsaac is coming to Port Mersey,” Region of Queens Mayor
Christopher Clarke said Jan. 11.
The federal government
awarded the contract to dispose of the former HMCS Protecteur, a supply ship,
and the former HMCS Algonquin, a destroyer in November 2015. Both ships are
currently berthed in Esquimalt, British
Columbia.
The company, R.J.
MacIsaac Construction, has not responded to interview requests.
Although Clarke says the
first vessel will be towed in to port around April 1, a representative at the
Port Mersey Commercial Park says R.J. MacIsaac Construction hasn’t signed a
contract with the park.
“We don’t have any
signed agreements with them, no new information to add right yet,” Tim Crowe,
the general site co-ordinator for Port Mersey, said Jan. 11.
Clarke says he received
information from R.J. MacIsaac Construction on the salvaging project through
meeting with representatives of the company.
The mayor says the
operation could create jobs in the area.
“It’s going to employ
between 30 and 40 people we understand,” Clarke said, “who are under contract
for two years.”
Source: the vanguard. 12
January 2016
http://www.thevanguard.ca/News/Regional/2016-01-12/article-4401540/Shipbreaking-in-Queens%3F-Mayor-says-Navy-ships-coming,-company-has-not-confirmed/1
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