The public policy advantage of quantifying or estimating what the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador might get in revenue from Churchill Falls 21 years from now is that it takes discussions today from the world of fantasy and make-believe to something closer to reality. Churchill Falls Generating Station People talk
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The development of our country #nlpoli
Today, the development of Churchill Falls is popularly perceived as a failure. Newfoundland is portrayed as the victim of a shrewd and untrustworthy lot in Quebec. They hoodwinked Joe Smallwood, the Liberal premier of Newfoundland at …
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Churchill Falls occupies a unique place in Newfoundland and Labrador’s political culture.Most of what people believe about Churchill Falls is just sheer nonsense. Made up. Never true. Completely ludicrous. But accepted as fact and uns…
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Churchill Falls occupies a unique place in Newfoundland and Labrador’s political culture.Most of what people believe about Churchill Falls is just sheer nonsense. Made up. Never true. Completely ludicrous. But accepted as fact and uns…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Revelation: Labrador hydro edition #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“I wonder how I would feel if a province or a region in another province prevented Hydro-Québec from building its transmission line. I would feel exactly like the people in the West do now. I understand them.” Quebec City mayor Regis Lebeaum…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Horse farts #nlpoli
If you do nothing else in the next few days, take the time to read the decision issued Friday (see below) by a Quebec superior court judge in a case brought by the provincial government against Hydro-Quebec. Judge Joel Silcoff does one thing supremely well: he summarises about 40 years
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Hydro-Quebec to get Muskrat Falls electricity #nlpoli
Under a complex arrangement, Nalcor will send electricity from Muskrat Falls to Quebec in place of electricity from Churchill Falls during some months of the year. Nalcor hasn’t disclosed any other details of the arrangement. It appears Nalcor’s Muskrat Falls company will swap the electricity – possibly free of charge
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale sounded genuinely exasperated last week when she chatted at length with Open Line show host Randy Simms about Muskrat Falls. “Why,” she asked, “would a government want to develop a project that is not in the best interest of the province?” No government would, of course. No
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nova Scotia would get Churchill Falls power for free #nlpoli
If you’ve been following the ongoing Muskrat Falls saga, you will recall that energy analyst Tom Adams raised some questions a couple of months ago about whether or not Muskrat Falls could actually produce the power Nalcor and the provincial government claimed. The problem basically came down to this: January
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Others, a.k.a the Ghost and Mrs. Dunderdale #nlpoli
Regardless of any change in the cost of other forms of energy,… we will have stability in this province that few parts of the world could depend on with the same reliability. Did Premier Kathy Dunderdale say that? During the provincial election last fall, she told The Scope that Muskrat
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