Because of finding considerably more toxic materials aboard the ship
than the RFP described the last firm contracted backed out of the
project. A second company has taken over but costs are very high. The
federal government is unwilling to help the province with the clean-up.
An article on the current state.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...osts-1.2976747


On 2015-03-19 3:34 PM, Steve wrote:
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:40:36 -0400, Paul McGrane
wrote:

Slide collection.

This ship has been aground on the coast of Nova Scotia since September
2011. They were working on scrapping her in place last year, but I
don't recall hearing that they had finished the job.

The wiki article covers the high points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Canadian_Miner

Steve