There are a lot of projects that are planned and have been approved and others in the works. We're trying to come in and make this a better community with the necessary services.

There is a tremendous amount of land out that way, and we're trying to establish public and private partnerships to make sure infrastructure is in place.

It's a good business ... but we came to the conclusion that these projects [ in the shelf] would not fare well in a competition for capital in our company.

We have a program where we're trying to improve training for the operation and maintenance of all of our projects and the ministries technical capacity to support these projects.

We wanted to give him some meaty projects. Unfortunately, he got traded. We were trying to give him some projects he could sink his teeth into when he got traded.

The county has never said that it is opposed to these projects, nor is it trying to kill these projects. We are trying to determine each company's ability to pay their fair share. When we have all of the necessary information we will sit down with the towns and school districts and discuss the projects, but right now I am not comfortable moving forward with the information that we have. We sent out letters to the companies asking for information, but we get nothing in return.