The problem is that the decision was to build the barrier, at a cost of $5.4 million, as you indicated, but the research budget was cut at the same time. Those funds would have been used to test the barrier. As indicated in the report, the budget decreased from $1.2 million to $492,000. We were wondering about building a $5.4-million infrastructure without the money to fund the research that needs to be done on the barrier.
On September 26th, 2017. See this statement in context.