The Hope Canal Project will not be completed by its extended August 31st, 2013 deadline as previously intended, Agricultural Minister Leslie Ramsammy announced yesterday, while giving assurances that the need for an extension for the project will not require additional funding.
Conceived following the Great Flood of 2005, the controversial project will drain water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Atlantic Ocean, thereby eliminating the flooding of the Mahaica Creek and its environs.
Ramsammy made the revelation of the extension of the deadline when the Parliamen-tary Sectoral Committee on Natural Resources, in keeping with its 2013 work programme, visited the EDWC and the Hope Canal to examine the progress of the work at its
