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Road on hold after court win.
(From Canberra Times)
Planning Minister Simon Corbell has vowed the Gungahlin Drive Extension will go ahead, despite a decision in the Supreme Court yesterday which could set the project back months and cost the Government hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And while he expressed disappointment with the court's decision yesterday, Mr Corbell would not comment on whether he would exercise his ministerial ''call-in'' powers which would circumvent all legal proceedings and allow the 9km road's construction to go ahead immediately. But he said: ''It will be built''.
The ACT Government is obliged to pay the contractors, Kenoss Contractors, $23,000 a week while the O'Connor Ridge worksite remains idle.
Save the Ridge was last week obliged to give an undertaking it would foot the bill but yesterday's decision removed that liability.
Also yesterday, a group of prominent Canberra scientists weighed into the debate, presenting Chief Minister Jon Stanhope with a petition opposing the project on environmental grounds.
Save the Ridge Incorporated won a major victory yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled that the Gugahlin Drive extension project had not been lawfully approved and should remain on hold until it had been.
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