The Public Accounts Committee is going to ask the Auditor General to investigate the whole issue of why government failed to proceed with capping of the wetlands on the Lower Churchill.
Government missed the deadline to proceed with mitigation of methylmercury from rotting vegetation after flooding at Muskrat Falls.
Indigenous groups say that, as a result, they risk being poisoned if they eat food from the land or water.
PC Leader Ches Crosbie says there are so many unanswered questions as to why the $30-million was not spent on wetland capping prior to the flooding.
