Liberal Leadership Videos #nlpoli
Two Liberal leadership candidates are using youtube videos as a way of getting their message out. Paul Antle has a professionally produced introductory video that is also the basis for…
Edward Hollett
Relative Costs #nlpoli
Leave entirely to one side the spectacle of the guy who gets paid as the consumer advocate sitting there on the CBC flailing his arms around explaining Newfoundland and Labrador…
The Cabana Cases #nlpoli
For those who want to read them, here are two decisions related to Brad Cabana’s recent Muskrat Falls case. The first is the decision on his application to have the…
Voids and Spatter #nlpoli
Watch too many crime shows and after a while a few of the ideas start to sing into your skull. Take blood spatter for example. In some kinds of violent…
Yakabuski nails it… again. #nlpoli
Konrad Yakabuski warned in 2006 that Newfoundland and Labrador would probably get a huge financial shock trying to develop the Lower Churchill on its own. Now, the knowledgeable Globe and…
More Gil Bennett nuttiness #nlpoli
Gill Bennett is a smart guy. That’s why he is in charge of a project as large as Muskrat Falls. So when Gil Bennett says something that obviously is not…
Look to Quebec courts, not prov gov for disclosure: Marshall #nlpoli
The people of Newfoundland and Labrador won;t get information on Muskrat falls water management from the provincial government or its energy corporation. They should wait to hear about things in…
Dunder-Dex offside with Emera #nlpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli
Premiers Kathy Dunderdale and Darrell Dexter may be telling everyone that the Maritime Link can;t be stopped but the private sector company involved in the project said in June there…
The price of a dam #nlpoli
If crap was electricity, Nalcor would have the market cornered. Da byes running the Muskrat falls project are very good at spewing words but very bad at saying things that…
Like water for muskrats #nlpoli
Wednesday it was Kathy Dunderdale. Thursday, they sent Tom Marshall to chat with Bill Rowe on Open Line to do damage control in the wake of two huge setbacks for…
Bubbles and the Politics of Neener-Neener-Neener #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale called Bill Rowe on Wednesday to have one of her periodic core dumps on what is going on in the universe. When the talk turns to Muskrat Falls,…
The Hydro-Quebec Statement of Claim #nlpoli
Via labradore, the statement of claim filed on behalf of Hydro-Quebec earlier this week. You can search it and read it in English. Those of you using Chrome will find…
A party like the others #nlpoli
Among the oldest of old Canadian political jokes is that you went to the Tory conventions to drink, the Liberal conventions to get laid, and the NDP ones to pick…
There’s desperate and then there’s Dunderdale #nlpoli
Take away the bluster: “The agenda won’t be set by Quebec in terms of how we do our work, how we develop our resources, and how we access markets.” Take…
UARB: “substantial uncertainty” about Nalcor supply of market-priced energy #nlpoli
You can read the full decision by the UARB (pdf) but here are some points to note. Right off the bat, you will see in the full report that Nova…
Pride goeth, more undisclosed risk, and all that #nlpoli
There are so many ways that Ed Martin, his crew at Nalcor, and the provincial Conservatives and all their supporters have screwed themselves and local ratepayers it is getting harder…
Hydro-Quebec to seek clarity on contract rights #nlpoli
From Hydro-Quebec: MONTREAL, July 22, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ – Hydro-Québec is filing a motion today with the Québec Superior Court to obtain a declaratory judgment. The company is asking the…
So what’s Kathy’s problem? #nlpoli
So if Stephen Harper’s staffing problem is that “all the good ones quit”, what is the story on the staffing problems in Kathy Dunderdale’s office? -srbp-
The Imaginary Nation #nlpoli
Look at the shelves in any bookstore around town these days and you will likely see endless copies of Greg Malone’s book Don’t tell the Newfoundlanders. The piles of books…
History’s Bitch #nlpoli
A half century ago, a bunch of very smart fellows – some of the smartest fellows of any generation ever – wanted to build a massive plant in the middle…