Finance minister Tom Marshall called the province’s major radio talk show on Thursday to promote the Muskrat Falls power project. He quoted from a book by Wally Read and L.J. Cole. The quote runs down opponents of the Baie d’Espoir megaproje…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Danny, Gary and Steve: old inconsistencies die hard
Apparently your humble e-scribbler isn’t the only one who found it amusing that an anti-Harper former premier is campaigning in pro-Harper country for a Conservative who doesn’t share the Old Man’s animosity toward the prime minister. Well amusi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: RCMP investigating SNC Lavalin officials over corruption allegations
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating officials of the engineering firm SNC Lavalin, according to media reports on possible corruption charges related to a $1.2 billion bridge project funded by the World Bank in Bangladesh. A spokesperson fo…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: We can always sell it…
You can tell the gang pushing Muskrat falls are having trouble meeting the arguments against their scheme to jack up power rates and the public debt. They are now talking about selling it off. Yes, you got that right. Selling it off. Someone named …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Grand Riverkeepers call Joint Review Panel Report “victory” for Labradorians
From the Grand Riverkeepers news release: HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, NL – “The Review Panel’s report reflects what we have been saying all along,” said Clarice Blake Rudkowski, president of Grand Riverkeeper Labrador Inc. “…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Et maintenant, le deluge…
In his regular column in the Wednesday edition, Telegram editor Peter Jackson succinctly explains why Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls scheme is a very bad idea: Reading the review panel’s comments, one comes to the conclusion that the rational…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: NL ratepayers to carry full cost of Muskrat Falls plus more #nlpoli
If there is anyone left who doesn’t understand who will pay for Muskrat Falls, let him or her read the joint review panel report: The Panel notes that the main driver for the Muskrat Falls projected cash flow provided to the Panel comes from Nalc…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: lost opportunity
The claim: Nalcor stated in its final submission to the Panel that without the Project the Province would lose an opportunity to create long-term revenue to fund social programs. [Joint Review Panel, final report, Page 18] The real…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: what an independent review really looks like
The provincial Liberals included a handy table with their Friday news release on the joint federal/provincial environmental panel’s report on Muskrat Falls. The chart compares what the environmental panel said would be a thorough, independent revi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: MF Traffic Report
Turns out the MF deal is a mf, at least for the political fortunes of the gang who cooked up the scheme to ship discount power to Nova Scotia paid for entirely by the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador. The week that an environmental panel demolis…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all spending on this project and establish a truly independent analy…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls fails joint federal/provincial environmental review #nlpoli
… if the recommended economic and alternatives studies show that there are alternative ways of meeting the electricity demands of the Island over the medium term in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally and socially responsible,…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Joint environmental panel slams Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The federal and provincial governments released the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review of Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat falls project. Big fail, across the board. Like no one could possibly have seen that one coming. More to follow… -…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: NDP avoids straight answer on Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
You can tell if a provincial opposition party politician supports Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls plan by how many words it takes to explain his or her position. New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael proved the point on Wednesday with a news…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Power of Confusion: The Three Amigos Update #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t understand the criticism of the federal government’s recent announcement of a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls megadebt project Provincial NDP leader Lorraine Michael, for one, has been crapping on the announce…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Subsidizing subsidized industry…somewhere else
“Curiouser and curiouser”, cried Alice, so overcome by the photograph that she momentarily forgot how to speak English properly. “Is it some sort of uniform?” “Might well be,” her companion said, “since they are all members of t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Venus in Furs: Muskrat Falls edition
There’s a kind of political writing that makes you squirm. On the face of it, and in isolation, a sentence can be perfectly correct. The problem comes when the politician, political staffer or bureaucrat puts that perfectly correct statement i…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Misleading the House: recall the whole recall power story
Why would Nalcor mislead the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, asks finance minister Tom Marshall with all the seriousness he can muster. Yes folks, the fellow with one of the worst cases of pinocchiosis politica ever seen in this province wonders …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Muskrat Falls Loan Guarantee Memorandum of Agreement
From the NRCAN website: In its June 3, 2011 Speech from the Throne the federal Government expressed its commitment to support the lower Churchill River hydroelectricity projects, as an important action to support our broader objective to develop Ca…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Feds to announce MOU on loan guarantee
NTV News broke the news reported Wednesday evening that an unspecified number of federal cabinet ministers will be in St. John’s on Friday to announce that the federal and provincial governments have signed a memorandum of understanding for a federal…
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