But just two years later, the department announced in another press release that Nova Scotia was abandoning the P3 system,
citing huge cost overruns for many of the projects.
It emphasised that large defence equipment projects represent a
huge proportion of the
costs,
citing the cancellation of the Nimrod aircraft and the delay of the Astute submarines as
costing the taxpayer # 3.4 billion and # 2 billion respectively.