On the week the memorandum of understanding between Nalcor Energy and Emera on the electricity transmission link between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and labrador is due to expire, take a look at the sequence of completely unrelated – coughbullshitcough -events. First, Nalcor’s Ed Martin thinks the date will slip by
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Fooled him, too, did they? #nlpoli
Celebrity economist Wade Locke thinks it’s just great that the provincial government is going to use any surplus on its current budget to pay down debt. As he told the Telegram: Putting it towards debt was the best thing, I think, you could do. Too bad for Wade that he
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor’s own studies back NG as Muskrat alternative #nlpoli
According to Nalcor’s final submission to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review panel, the company dismissed natural gas as an alternative source of electricity instead of Muskrat Falls. This alternative is purely hypothetical, as the current offshore operators have looked into the technical and economic feasibility of transporting and marketing
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: She hasn’t heard? Part Deux #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale claims she hasn’t heard “any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as we move on.” Truth is there are plenty of arguments against her p…
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“I have yet to hear any substantive argument that contradicts any of the analysis or research or even the process that we’ve used to get us where we are as we move on.” That’s Premier Kathy Dunderdale in an interview carried by the Globe and M…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: We all can’t be wrong #nlpoli
There’s no small amount of humour in Kathy Dunderdale trying to claim that people who oppose the Muskrat Falls scheme are poorly informed. At last count, anyone with significant experience in energy policy in the province over the past 40 years is fo…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat review muddle and Nalcor competence #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy is a smart guy. It’s not that he is the smartest guy in a cabinet of dunderheads. Kennedy would be one of the smartest people in any cabinet the province has ever had. And that’s why it is safe to assume th…
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The Western Star has latched on to a story that first ran this weekend in Halifax’s Chronicle Herald about a coalition of environmental advocates calling for Nova Scotia Power to consider buying readily available hydroelectricity from Quebec rather th…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Cheap power for Nova Scotians #nlpoli
No, this is not about the official policy of both the Conservatives and new Democratic Parties in Newfoundland and labrador, although both parties have that as their major energy goal in the near future. Rather, it’s a report in the Chronicle Herald…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: What does sanction really mean?
Here’s what Kathy Dunderdale told CBC’s David Cochrane about Muskrat Falls: "We’re looking at sanction, at the earliest at this point in time, would be in the spring and the house will be in session before we sanction Muskrat Falls," …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: If La Romaine isn’t profitable… #nlpoli #nlvotes
An economics professor at l’Universite d’Ottawa thinks Hydro-Quebec’s La Romaine project isn’t profitable at the projected sale price to Vermont of 5.8 cents per kilowatt hour when the electricity will cost 6.4 cents per kwh to produce. Hydro-…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls support plummets: poll #nlvotes #nlpoli
Despite a massive marketing effort by the provincial Conservatives and the provincial government’s energy corporation, Nalcor, a new poll by NTV/Telelink shows a dramatic drop in support for the provincial Conservatives’ Muskrat Falls project. In …
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Kathy Dunderdale says: "[Joan Burke]’s not intimidated by Mr. Aylward, nor should she be," Dunderdale said … but then the sentence finishes with: …during one of a series of stops in St. George’s-Stephenville East. Joan’s so …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: My work here is done #nlvotes #nlpoli
The Telegram quoted Kathy Dunderdale on Tuesday: "We have to find the cheapest way," she said today while campaigning on the west coast. "Muskrat Falls is that way unless somebody else is able to prove to us the analysis is flawed…
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From Rob Antle’s article in Atlantic Business Magazine, an interesting quote from federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver about Muskrat Falls, and the federal government’s loan guarantee.“Look, the project, at the end of the day, has a private …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Classical gas #nlpoli
Former Conservative policy advisor Cabot Martin knows a thing or two about energy. The guy worked in the energy department in the 1970s and was involved in every major policy development in oil gas and electricity in the province for over a decad…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: There’s independent and then there’s Navigant #nlpoli
Nalcor chief executive Ed martin told a CBC audience on Thursday that the Navigant report meets the joint review panel’s requirement for a complete, independent review of Kathy Dunderdale’s plan for saddling the provincial taxpayers with high elect…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Word Clues
According to the St. John’s Board of Trade, “Newfoundland and Labrador’s considerable assets include …[a] captive consumer market worth over $10 billion annually.” Interesting choice of words that. “Captive”. Prisoner. Hostage. As in…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: SRBP on Radio: Muskrat Falls
For those who missed it, here’s the audio from your humble e-scribbler’s Labour day call to Open Line. h/t to Dave Adey who has been relentlessly documenting Muskrat calls to OL among other things. – srbp –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Aylward questions Nalcor on choice of consultant
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward has sent a letter to Nalcor boss Ed Martin asking about Nalcor’s use of Navigant as the consultant the company chose for a review of the Muskrat Falls project. The Liberals posted the letter to the party’s campaign web…
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