OCI’S PROPOSED NEW PORT IN LONG POND WOULD CREATE $7-MILLION WHITE ELEPHANT IN SOUTH DILDO
OCI's operation in South Dildo, Trinity Bay. Ocean Choice International’s plan to build a controversial wharf and cold-storage facility in the middle of the harbour in Long Pond, Conception Bay South, would leave a $7-million white elephant in South Dildo, Trinity Bay where Ottawa has recently rebuilt a commercial deep-water wharf. OCI also owns a processing plant and cold-storage facility at the South Dildo property, which is said to have plenty of room for expansion, and has been a brown industrial site since the early 1960s — home to such operations as Carino, Woodman’s Sea Products, and FPI. DFO’s Small Craft Harbours has spent roughly $7 million to overhaul the South Dildo wharf since 2015, and OCI’s growing operation was an obvious factor in that decision. That raises the question why OCI isn't sticking with South Dildo for its new marine base. Developing the Long Pond site would create a $7-million white elephant in terms o